*** This section was written before the World Cup 2006 started ***

England will play Paraguay on 10 June 2006 in Frankfurt before moving to Nuremberg to play Trinidad and Tobago on 15 June. England's final group game is against Sweden at the stadium in Cologne on 20 June 2006.

If England win group B the second round match will be in Stuttgart on 25 June 2006 followed by a possible trip to Gelsenkirchen on 1 July 2006 in the quarter finals. Any semi final appearance would then be at Munich on 5 July.

If England come second in group B the second round match will be in Munich on 24 June 2006 (probably against Germany). There could then be a potential visit to Berlin on 30 June 2006 in the quarter finals and a semi final appearance at Dortmund on 4 July.

The final is on 9 July 2006 in Berlin.

Map of Northern Germany

Northern Germany will host the final two of Germany's group games at Dortmund (bottom left of map) and the capital and biggest city in Germany, Berlin. The other stadiums to be used in Northern Germany are Hamberg, Hannover and Gelsenkirchen (just to the west of Dortmund).

Map of Southern Germany

England's group stage matches are in Southern Germany starting off at Frankfurt, then moving south-east down to Nurnberg (near the centre of the map) at ending in Koln (top left of map). Koln is translated to Cologne in English. The other stadiums in Southern Germany to be used at the World Cup are Leipzig (top right of map), Kaiserslautern (to the west of Mannheim), Stuttgart and Munich (note the German name is Munchen).
 

Berlin has been the capital of Germany since the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990. It was also the capital between 1871 and 1945, when Germany was divided into East and West Germany after the second World War. This division went through Berlin and East Berlin and West Berlin were divided by the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989. Between 1945 and 1990 East Berlin was the capital of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and Bonn (south of Koln) was the capital of West Germany. Berlin's new Olympic stadium was opened in 2004.
 

                      
                           The Olympic stadium at Berlin where the final will be held