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Broke ground
  
November 2, 2005

Opened
  
15 December 2006

Architect
  
Andrey Bokov

Capacity
  
14,000

Phone
  
+7 495 643-18-10

Megasport Arena

Former names
  
Khodynka Arena (2006-2007)

Location
  
Khodynka avenue 3 Moscow 125252 , Russia

Construction cost
  
ruble ₽ 2,7 billion EUR € 35 million

Address
  
Khodynskiy b-r, 3, Moskva, Московская область, Russia, 125284

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Megasport Sport Palace (Russian: Дворец спорта "Мегаспорт" Translite Dvorets sporta Megasport, formerly, Khodynka Arena or Ice Sport Palace on the Khodynka Field), is a multi-purpose arena in Moscow, Russia. The arena has a maximum capacity of 13,926 people. It is used mostly for basketball matches.

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History

It is situated in the Khodynka Field and was completed in December 2006.

It was one of the arenas to host the 2007 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships.

It also was the home of the Sultan Ibragimov vs. Evander Holyfield World Heavyweight Title Fight on October 13, 2007.

On 23 January 2008, CSKA Moscow hosted a EuroLeague Regular season game against TAU Cerámica in the arena, in front of a near sellout 13,000 attendance crowd.

In November 2008, the Cup of Russia figure skating competition was held there.

Another important event hosted at the arena was the 2006-07 CEV Champions League Final four, in which Tours VB won the title after defeating VfB Friedrichshafen.

This arena was rumored to be the venue for the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in 2009, but instead the competition was held at the Olympic Indoor Arena in Moscow.

On March 24, 2011, the International Skating Union (ISU) relocated the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships to the Megasport Arena in Moscow. This decision followed the cancellation of the championships in Tokyo, Japan due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The championships was staged from April 24 – May 1, 2011.

The 2011 European Curling Championships was hosted at the arena in December 2011.

In 2016, the arena became the home arena of the VTB United League club CSKA Moscow for EuroLeague games.

References

Megasport Arena Wikipedia