Tipsport Arena (Liberec)

Home Credit Arena
Coordinates	50°45′10″N15°02′59″E / 50.75278°N 15.04972°E Coordinates: 50°45′10″N15°02′59″E / 50.75278°N 15.04972°E
Owner	Liberec
Capacity	Hockey: 7,250 [1] ; General: 9,000 [1]
Surface	Multi-Surface
Construction
Opened	8 September 2005
Architect	Antonín Buchta
Tenants
	HC Liberec (Extraliga); BK Kondoři Liberec (basketball)

Last updated March 07, 2019

The Home Credit Arena (formerly known as Tipsport Arena) is an indoor sporting arena located in Liberec, Czech Republic, sponsored by gambling firm Tipsport. The capacity of the arena is 9,000 people and it was built in 2005. It is currently home to the HC Bílí Tygři Liberec ice hockey team. It hosted matches from Group B and the Relegation Round at the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. It is also a venue for home games of Polish basketball team Turów Zgorzelec in the Eurocup and Euroleague.

Liberec is a city in the Czech Republic. It is on the Lusatian Neisse and surrounded by the Jizera Mountains and Ještěd-Kozákov Ridge. It is the fifth-largest city in the Czech Republic.

The Czech Republic, also known by its short-form name, Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast. The Czech Republic covers an area of 78,866 square kilometres (30,450 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate. It is a unitary parliamentary republic, with 10.6 million inhabitants; its capital and largest city is Prague, with 1.3 million residents. Other major cities are Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc and Pilsen. The Czech Republic is a member of the European Union (EU), NATO, the OECD, the United Nations, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.

Tipsport is the largest betting agency in the Czech Republic. Based in Beroun, it has almost 1000 branches across the country. In recent years Tipsport has met with more competition, notably from Fortuna and from illegal online betting sites.

In its first five years of operation, the Tipsport Arena welcomed 1.4 million visitors and hosted 467 events.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 Šebelka, Jan (7 September 2010). "Milovaná i proklínaná. Liberecká Tipsport aréna slaví páté narozeniny". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. Retrieved 15 March 2012.

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[5years-1] 1 2 3 Šebelka, Jan (7 September 2010). "Milovaná i proklínaná. Liberecká Tipsport aréna slaví páté narozeniny". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. Retrieved 15 March 2012.