Bossard Arena

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Bossard Arena
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Bossard Arena
Location Zug, Switzerland
Coordinates 47°10′37″N8°30′28″E / 47.17694°N 8.50778°E / 47.17694; 8.50778
OwnerKunsteisbahn Zug AG
Capacity 7,800
Construction
Broke ground2008
OpenedAugust 20, 2010
Expanded2017
2024
ArchitectAnliker AG and Scheitlin Syfrig Architekten
Tenants
EV Zug (NL) (2010-present)

Bossard Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Zug, Switzerland. The capacity of the arena is 7,800 spectators and opened in 2010. [1] It hosts indoor sporting events such as ice hockey. It hosts the EV Zug of the National League (NL). It replaced Eishalle Herti as the home of EV Zug. The venue is named after Bossard Holding, an international logistics company headquartered in the city.

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Size issues

The arena has faced many critics from EV Zug management and fans for being too limited in terms of capacity. [2] In the summer of 2017, EV Zug added an additional 200 seats close to the boards, on ice level. [3] At the beginning of the 2019-20 season, EVZ CEO Patrick Lengwiler expressed his intentions to the city of Zug, the current owner of the Arena, to extend the capacity to 9,000. [4] The team is currently forced to limit season tickets sales to 6,000 due to the small capacity and could benefits economically from an extension as demand is high in Zug with the team being very popular.

The issue was again brought back in the media in September 2020 to try and make the city of Zug act quickly. [5]

The arena underwent expansion in the summer of 2024 to add an additional 600 seats.

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References

  1. ↑ "BOSSARD Arena | BOSSARD Arena". www.bossard-arena.ch.
  2. ↑ Zeitung, Zuger. "EV Zug would like to increase the capacity of their arena". swisshockeynews.ch.
  3. ↑ Zug, E. V. "EV Zug enlarges the Bossard Arena and installs new boards". swisshockeynews.ch.
  4. ↑ Zeitung, Luzerner. "EVZ's arena - Larger capacity possible, but also politically viable?". swisshockeynews.ch.
  5. ↑ Zeitung, Luzerner. "Larger capacity of the Bossard Arena? EVZ needs to be patient". swisshockeynews.ch.

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