Hungary men's national ice hockey team
On May 6, 2025, the Hungarian national team will meet the best hockey team in the world, Canada, at the MVM Dome!
It's a historic year for Hungarian hockey, as both of our adult teams will play in the Group A World Championships - the men's team will be able to stay in the elite for the first time. We are adapting our spring preparation programme to this high professional challenge: our men's national ice hockey team is preparing for the Group A World Championship with unprecedented quality and quantity of matches!
Schedule
Eight matches, four weeks, one common goal: this is the VELETEK BÁRHOVA-TURNÉ, the national team's spring preparation programme! Starting in Székesfehérvár, and running from Győr to Miskolc, the country tour will culminate in a highlight match against Canada in the MVM Dome in Budapest, the biggest arena in Hungary!
The world-leading Maple Leafs are the most successful team at the World Championships with 28 gold medals and 53 medals, and also won the prestigious Four Nations Face-Off tournament featuring NHL stars in February this year!
Canada will also be bringing a strong squad to our capital, as it is already looking to this year's World Championships as a 'selection' for the 2026 Winter Olympics, and expects its biggest stars to be in attendance. In addition, the May 6 clash at the MVM Dome will be the last game before the World Championships for both the Hungarian and Canadian national teams, so there will be a great game, a great fight and an unforgettable atmosphere!
"The role of the national team is more than the sum of our best players: it is not only an opportunity and a pride, but also a huge responsibility! - said Gergely Majoross, the national captain. - The greatest results in the history of the national team have been achieved when the team and the fans not only found each other, but also went forward hand in hand. It was a fantastic experience for everyone involved, because we were not only fighting for the goal, but we were also doing and existing for each other - the team for the fans, the fans for the team. We will bring this togetherness to life with the VELETEK BARHOVA-TURN and the match against Canada, hoping to once again have the experience of a lifetime!"
Let's cheer on the national team and prepare together for the biggest hockey celebration of the spring!
MVM Dome
MVM Dome is the seventh largest indoor event venue in Europe. Its capacity for sports events and concerts is significantly higher than that of the Budapest Sports Arena. It has 20,022 seats; a total of 50,000 square metres of floor space; innovative, rearrangeable spaces for many indoor sports (handball, basketball and volleyball, futsal, ice hockey, tennis, skating) as well as certain athletic, equestrian and motorcycle competitions, and even swimming competitions and water polo matches in the mobile pool. Through the six entrances to the building, spectators can enter the arena’s interior using eight escalators, leading to the walk-through grandstands accessible on three levels. The structure of the building’s exterior is reminiscent of muscle fibres: the light strips placed on the outward-leaning, elliptical sections not only embrace the building, but the light shows, programmed using various colours, appear to set the entire building in motion. There is a 600 square metre display on the façade of the building. The Main Entrance leads to an impressive foyer, where visitors will be greeted by a grandiose hanging light installation of 848 handmade glass tubes. The programmable sports lighting is also suitable for HDTV broadcasts of the highest-level world competitions, as well as for super-slow-motion recordings due to flicker free technology. The lighting system also plays an important role in the events and concerts, as it is suitable for changing the colour temperature of the auditorium, which means that the lighting functions can be changed without rearranging the arena, only through the pre-programmed lighting controls. This design is the first and is unique in Europe for luminaires of this power. A central display (cube) provides information in the auditorium during the events.