Kisstadion
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| The Kisstadion in 2008 | |
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 Budapest , Hungary
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 30 '17 " N , 19 ° 5' 40.7" E |
| start of building | August 1959 |
| opening | 1961 |
| First game | Hungary 2-5 Romania (ice hockey) |
| Renovations | 1988 |
| surface |
Concrete ice surface |
| costs | 20 million HUF (around 70,000 euros today) |
| capacity | 15,000 seats 16,800 seats (concerts) |
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The Kisstadion ( German Small Stadium ) is an ice rink in the Hungarian capital Budapest . It is one of the last regularly used outdoor ice hockey arenas in the world. The competition venue is the home stadium of MAC Budapest and has an official audience capacity of 15,000. It is in the immediate vicinity of the Puskás Aréna football stadium .
history
Construction began in August 1959. The work was supported by soldiers and equipment from the Hungarian armed forces . The opening took place two years later with an international ice hockey match between Hungary and Romania (2: 5). The ice rink now offers space for 15,000 visitors in the stands. The Kisstadion has 16,800 seats for the audience for concerts. In addition to ice hockey, the ice rink is used for figure skating and short track events. In the summer months, the open-air arena serves as a location for various sports, apart from football, and cultural events such as Holiday on Ice in August 1967, various boxing matches or games by the Harlem Globetrotters basketball show troupe .
In the 1960s, the 1962 World Weightlifting Championships , the 1963 European Figure Skating Championships and the 1964 European Women's Basketball Championships stopped at the stadium. The European figure skating championship in the Kisstadion was the last one in the open air. She was hampered by heavy snowfall.
In 1988, the stadium received new changing rooms, a new floodlight system that also enabled television broadcasts and a press stand for radio and television commentators.
Concerts
Over time, the Kisstadion was also a stage for concerts .
- May 28, 1967: The Nashville Teens
- July 7, 8, and 9, 1967: The Spencer Davis Group
- July 7, 1968: Traffic
- July 29 and 30, 1972: Free
- Aug 19, 1977: Omega
- 16 Sep 1977: Suzi Quatro
- 8 Sep 1979: Omega
- August 5, 1980: Omega
- 5th Sep 1980: Omega
- 14th and 15th Aug. 1981: Kraftwerk
- Sep 6 and 7 1982: Uriah Heep
- June 14, 1986: Railway , Talon , Tokyo Blade , Pokolgép
- June 27, 1986: Opus
- Aug 20, 1987: Helloween , Ossian
- May 15, 1988: Saxon
- Sep 2 1988: KISS , Edda Művek
- May 26, 1989: The Cure
- June 12, 1991: Bob Dylan
- July 7, 1991: INXS
- July 8, 1992: Roxette
- June 27, 1993: Brian May
- July 1, 1993: Carlos Santana
- May 23, 1996: Sting
- June 25, 1996: Red Hot Chili Peppers
- June 20, 1997: Joan Baez , Emerson, Lake and Palmer
- June 3, 1998: Coal Chamber , Black Sabbath , Helloween, Pantera
- June 18, 1998: Joe Cocker
- July 6, 1998: Deep Purple
- July 26, 1998: Chuck Berry , Little Richard , Jerry Lee Lewis
- June 18, 1999: Mike Oldfield
- July 9, 1999: REM , dEUS
- June 7, 2000: Iron Maiden
- May 19, 2000: Jazz + Az
- June 12, 2000: Sting
- 4th Sep 2000: Enrique Iglesias
- June 12, 2001: Eros Ramazzotti
- Sep 12 2001: Depeche Mode
- 22 Sep 2001: Tom Jones
- 29 Sep 2001: Natalia Oreiro
- June 4, 2002: Carlos Santana
- June 15, 2002: Roger Waters
- June 16, 2002: Jamiroquai
- June 28, 2002: Supertramp
- June 4, 2003: Iron Maiden
- May 29, 2004: Ákos
- June 17, 2005: Rod Stewart
- May 27, 2006: Tankcsapda
- June 3, 2006: Omega
- Feb 14, 2016: Super honing
gallery
South end of the Kisstadion
Training of the Mini-U10 from MAC Népstadion Budapest
Web links
- Kulturinfo.hu: History of the Kisstadion (Hungarian)
- mnsk.hu: data on the stadium (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ mnsk.hu: data on the stadium (Hungarian)
- ↑ setlist.fm: concert list of the Kisstadion (English)