Ice Hockey Stadium of Dunaújváros
Dunaújvárosi Jégcsarnok | |
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Location | Dunaújváros |
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Coordinates | 46°57′16″N 18°56′54″E / 46.9544°N 18.9482°E |
Capacity | 3,500- 4,000 hockey (500 with seating) |
Construction | |
Broke ground | 1973 |
Opened | November 7, 1973 |
Tenants | |
Steel Bulls of Dunaujaros men's team[1] |
Ice Hockey Stadium of Dunaújváros is located in Barátság District, Eszperanto Street, at the Sport Center Complex of Dunaújváros City, Hungary. Dunaújváros is 75 km (47 mi) from Budapest near the Danube river.
Stadium has built among the
Ice Hockey Stadium of Dunaújváros was built in 1973 as the first ice hockey stadium at the countryside, but before that there was a skating rink from 1956. The first version of the skating rink was 12 metres (39 ft) long and 11 metres (36 ft) wide. In 1967, it was planned to build a bigger one, which size was designed to 450 m2 (4,800 sq ft) to be able to receive four hundred kids for the same time. And there was a skates grinding and repair service. The enlargement was finished in 1968, that time the visitors could skate in 450 square meters. As the technology developed the ice had a better quality, the two compressors and the ammonia tanks provided sixteen Celsius degree temperature for the ice.
The team's name has changed three times, from Dunaferr to
Beside of the Ice Hockey Stadium there is a car parking lot, which is under a usage also when the city has a football event. Total size of the buildings of the Ice Hockey Stadium is 6274 square meter and the main area of it is 1 hectare 0481 square meter.
In the International Sport Championships the domestic ice hockey team of Dunaujvaros played among national teams just like Ukrainian, German, Polish, Kazakh, Japanese for the trophy. Dunaujvaros has participated in the Hungarian
Zsolt Azari is the chairman of the
The ice curling rink opened again in the winter season as free entertainment and sport center in 2002. The
There is a relative modern lighting technology system inside the hall's ceiling, the chairs made from plastic. Stadium was built with the southern eastern entrance door, there is another one from the northern west side of the building, and another one at the longitudinal of it which goes directly to the dressing room of the players.
Some of the most finish strong, successful ice hockey players subjugated to France and Sweden by name Viktor Szelig (2006), Marton Vas (1997), Janos Vas (2000), Akos Agardy. Conversely there were a lot of foreign legionnaire from Russia, Canada, Slovakia, for instance the Canadian Kurt MacSweyn, the Russian Dimitri Tyeplakov. Igor Slivinsky was a Ukrainian foreign legionnaire.
The Ice Hockey Stadium of Dunaújváros has a buffet for refreshments and four big electronic displays in a square format for the match actual result. There are five chair lines at the grandstand. In the city center the government usually builds up a little uncovered skating rink in December every year. There are other ice hockey stadiums in Hungary, to go not so far the ice funs can skate in Székesfehérvár, Fejér County, Paks (Tolna County), Kaposvár and Budapest.
References
- ^ Dunaferr SE among the world's nationals ice hockey teams
- ^ Website of the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation
- ^ article about the ice hockey stadium site of Hockeyarenas
- ^ "Dunaujvarosi Jegcsarnok (Dunaújváros)". Sport 195. 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2015.