Tipsport Arena (1962)

HC Sparta Prague ( since 1962)
HC Lev Prague ( since 2012 )

Hockey World Cup 1972
Hockey World Cup 1978
Hockey World Cup 1985
Hockey World Cup 1992

Tipsport Arena is a multi -purpose sports hall in Holešovice. It is primarily used for ice hockey, but also for concerts. The hall, which opened in 1962, is the home arena of the HC Sparta Prague.

History

To align fairs and exhibitions, was built in palác Stromovka 1907, the so-called Strojnický. This palace was home to 1947 exposures, subsequently took place at the exhibition center in Brno. In the following years, the Prague area was empty, on December 2, 1952 decided the Czechoslovakian government to build on the former fairgrounds, a sports complex. The work was interrupted due to financial utilization from 1954 to 1958, the building was completed in 1962. Here in the former nave of the exhibition palace was the ice of the new stadium, which was the official name Sportovní hala ČSTV v PKOJF, colloquially but only Sportovní hala, ie sports hall, was called.

The hall was opened on 7 March 1962, a figure skating revue, on 14 March, the World Figure Skating Championship was held here. Then moved to a subtenant of a hockey club Sparta Prague. 18,500 people, so high was initially the capacity, saw on December 23, 1962 was 4:3 victory of the Czechoslovak national team over the USSR.

In the years 1972, 1978, 1985 and most recently in 1992 the Ice Hockey World Championships took place in the Sportovní hala games. In the late 1960s, the capacity dropped to 14,080 spectators, as floor were converted into seats. After the Velvet Revolution, the hall Sparta Prague was left of the city for the next 30 years. The capacity for hockey games dropped to 12,950 spectators on the regular seating and standing room. Standing (approximately 1,000) have been around since about four years exclusively in the Fanblocks for host and home team, which are located behind the two doors. The specified courses are again expected in 1381 places in the added VIP according to official figures ( Homepage HC Sparta ). The total capacity of the hall at hockey games is officially 14 331 places.

However, the data are quite inconsistent here. So two playoff finals of the 2006/ 07 be given on April 8 and 9 April 2007, compared to HC Pardubice with an official attendance of 14,500 as sold out on the website of HC Sparta. At the last final game that season on 14 April 2007, however, the official number of viewers was only just 14,000 in the hall again denoted as sold. In fact, however, remained in all these games, yet many places at the four corners of the hall, so that it can be assumed that access for security reasons or for reasons of severely limited by piers view of these places, not all theoretically possible seats in the sale.

An innovation in the now no longer state of development corresponding Hall was installing a large video cube above the playing field in 2000. Since then, the catering service and the sanitary facilities were made some improvements in the area. For the fans of the HC Sparta the hall remained despite certain shortcomings so far extremely popular.

In 1999, the stadium was renamed by its sponsorship of the mobile network operators in Paegas Paegas Arena. When the German Telekom 2002, standing behind Paegas consortium took over, the name of the Company T-Mobile, that the rink changed according to T -Mobile Arena. After the expiry of the contract with T -Mobile in March 2008, the hall was temporarily Arena HC Sparta and later Tesla Arena. In December 2011, the betting company Tipsport took over the naming rights to the arena.

The arena is used not only for home games of HC Sparta, but also for other events such as concerts or parties. In this case, the capacity is 10,500 spectators.

External links and sources

Official website ( Czech)
Information to the hall on the site of the HC Sparta Prague ( Czech)
History of the Hall ( Czech)
Legendy stadionu: T-Mobile arena v Praze consignment of Czech Television ČT about the history of the stadium ( Czech)

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