Menorah Mivtachim Arena
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Yad Eliyahu Sports Arena (1963-2003) |
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| place | 51 Yigal Allon Street Tel Aviv-Jaffa , Israel
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 3 '39.6 " N , 34 ° 47' 28.7" E |
| owner | City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa |
| operator | Sport Palaces Limited |
| opening | 17th September 1963 |
| First game | September 17, 1963 Israel - Yugoslavia 64:69 |
| Renovations | 1972, 2005 |
| Extensions | 2005 |
| surface | parquet |
| capacity | 10,383 seats |
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The Menorah Mivtachim Arena ( Hebrew היכל מנורה מבטחים Hejchal Menōrah Mivṭachīm ) is a multi-purpose hall in the southeast of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa . The arena is owned by the city and managed by Sport Palaces Limited . Her tasks also include managing the city's Bloomfield Stadium and the Shlomo Group Arena, which opened in 2014 and has 3504 seats, in which the Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball club competes. With 10,383 seats today, the Menorah Mivtachim Arena is the second largest multi-purpose arena in Israel after the Pais Arena Jerusalem . In addition to the basketball games in Maccabi Tel Aviv , the final four tournaments of the Israeli basketball league Ligat ha'Al and the State Basketball Cup will be held. In addition, the Israeli national basketball team plays most of its home games in the Menora Mivtachim Arena.
history
The Yad Eliyahu Arena was completed in 1963 and inaugurated on September 17 of that year with the international basketball match between Israel and Yugoslavia . The hosts lost with 64:69 points. Initially, the sports facility consisted of stands built on concrete beams with 5,000 uncovered standing places. The building was mainly built for basketball, but various other events such as concerts, tennis, wrestling, beauty contests and ice skating also took place there. The basketball department of Maccabi Tel Aviv from the Ligat ha'Al has been playing their games there since it was completed . At the end of the 1960s the hall was roofed over and furnished with seats.
In 1972 the hall was reopened with an upper tier and 10,000 seats. The new arena was inaugurated with the final of the European basketball championship between the Italians from Ignis Varese and Jugoplástika Split from Yugoslavia (final score 70:69). After 22 years, the national championship cup final returned to Tel Aviv. In the final of the Final Four tournament in 1993/94 Joventut de Badalona and Olympiacos Piraeus (59:57) met. Ten years later Maccabi reached the final in the Final Four tournament of the ULEB Euroleague 2003/04 in Tel Aviv. In the final on May 1, 2004 in their own hall, Skipper Bologna from Italy was clearly defeated with 118: 74 points. In 1997 the hall was the venue for the FIBA Europa All-Star Games FIBA EuroStars . On December 30th of that year the east defeated the west with 129: 107. The most successful throwers of the game were the Serb Aleksandar Đorđević with 23 points for the west and the Lithuanian Artūras Karnišovas with 19 points for the east.
In the mid-2000s, the hall was renovated, expanded again and equipped with a video cube under the hall ceiling. There were also 24 VIP boxes with 20 seats each, restaurants and shops and the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan shop.
Surname
As Yad Eliyahu Sports Arena (היכל הספורט יד אליהו Hejchal ha-Spōrṭ Jad Elīahū ) the hall was opened. From 2003 to 2014 the venue was sponsored by Nokia Arena (היכל נוקיה Hejchal Nokia ) named after the mobile phone manufacturer Nokia . The contract with Nokia expired on December 31, 2014. Since January 1, 2015, the Israeli insurance company Menora Mivtachim has been the namesake of the hall for four million US dollars until 2022 .
gallery
Menorah Mivtachim Arena from outside
Basketball in the Menorah Mivtachim Arena
Menorah Mivtachim Arena at night
Web links
- sportpalaces.co.il: Website of Sport Palaces Limited (English)
- About Nokia Arena ( Memento from March 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- worldstadiums.com: Pictures of the Menorah Mivtachim Arena (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ sportpalace.co.il: hall capacity (English)
- ↑ Sports in the Arena ( Memento from March 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ euroleague.net: Maccabi wins ULEB Euroleague 2004 in its own hall (English)
- ↑ fibaeurope.com: FIBA EuroStars 1997 (English)
- ↑ Structure of Nokia Arena ( Memento of March 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ gazzetta.gr: Yad Eliyahu Arena -> Nokia Arena -> Menora Mivtachim Arena Article from December 7, 2014 (Greek)