The Donbass hockey club has announced it will build a modern multipurpose sports arena, the Kalmius Arena, in Donetsk ahead of the EuroBasket 2015 European Basketball Championship in Ukraine.
“The main play area will be capable of hosting basketball and hockey
games. It will also be possible to hold boxing fights, athletics events
and concerts on it,” the club’s press service reported on Saturday.
The arena will seat 13,145 spectators during basketball games, 12,800
people during hockey games and 14,305 spectators during boxing matches.
As reported, Donbass Hockey Club Ltd. (Donetsk), Donetsk-Basket Ltd.
(Donetsk) and United Basketball Investments Ltd. (Kyiv) were declared
the winners of a tender for the construction of basketball facilities in
cities that can host the European basketball championship in 2015.
Donbass Hockey Club won the right to build a multipurpose arena for at least 15,000 seats in Donetsk.
Donetsk-Basket will build a multipurpose sports arena in Donetsk for at least 6,000 seats.
United Basketball Investments got the right to build multipurpose
sports arenas in Kyiv for at least 15,000 spectators, in Odesa for at
least 10,000 spectators, in Dnipropetrovsk for at least 10,000
spectators, in Lviv for at least 10,000 spectators and in
Ivano-Frankivsk for at least 6,000 seats. President of the Basketball
Federation of Ukraine Oleksandr Volkov said that the owners of United
Basketball Investments are companies owned by entrepreneurs Ihor
Kolomoisky and Dmytro Buriak.
Ukraine won the right to host the first European Championships Men’s
Basketball teams in 2015, in December 2011. Bid to host the matches of
the tournament served Kyiv, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv,
Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk.
On December 18, 2011 Ukraine received the right to host the European
Basketball Championship in 2015. Ukraine proposed hosting the
championship in its largest cities, including Kyiv, Odesa,
Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv, Kharkiv and Ivano-Frankivsk.
