Steel Aréna

Steel Aréna

Location Nerudova 12
040 01 Košice, Slovakia
Owner U.S. Steel Košice
Capacity 8 378
Construction
Opened February 24, 2006
Construction cost SKK 730 million ($ 17.6 million in 2006 dollars,[1] $ 20.8 million in 2016 dollars[2])[3]
Tenants
HC Košice (Slovak Extraliga) 2006 – present

Steel Aréna – Košický štadión L. Trojáka (English: Steel Arena – Ladislav Troják Stadium in Košice) is the new home arena of the ice hockey club HC Košice.

Steel Arena opened on February 24, 2006. Its capacity is 8,343 seats and was named in honour of the general sponsor of the club – the U. S. Steel Košice (a member of the United States Steel Corporation) and also in honour of Ladislav Troják, a Košice-born hockey player who was the first Slovak to win the World Championship with the Czechoslovakian national team.

In 13-30 May 2007 Steel Arena hosted nine-pin bowling World Championships and so far, this event holds the record for attendance of nine-pin bowling contests.

Steel Aréna was one of the venues for the 2011 IIHF World Championship, which was hosted by Bratislava and Košice. The scoreboard, one of the most advanced LED scoreboards in the world was designed and manufactured by ColosseoEAS, a Slovak company.

Musical events

The arena has hosted concerts by many famous artists, spanning many different genres of music.

References

  1. ↑ Tables of historical exchange rates to the United States dollar
  2. ↑ Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Project. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.hckosice.sk/sk/archiv/detail/kosicka-steel-arena-slavnostne-otvorena-+-fotogaleria/2739

Coordinates: 48°42′53″N 21°14′53″E / 48.71472°N 21.24806°E / 48.71472; 21.24806


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