Hockey spring 2024
The most successful national team in the sport will arrive in Budapest as the current world champions: the Canadians will be invited to the MVM Dome for their final World Cup preparation match.
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On 9 May 2023, the MVM Dome hosted the most-watched home game of all time for the Hungarian ice hockey team. The meeting between Canada and Hungary, who are preparing for the World Group A Championship, was officially watched by 14 756 spectators, and that number could be about to change!
Yes, Canada is visiting Hungary again. The winners of last year's World Cup are bringing their NHL stars to Budapest to play their final pre-season game with the Hungarian national team before the World Cup in the Czech Republic from 10-26 May 2024.
Our team will have already visited the Division 1/A World Championships in Bolzano by then, but they will have a huge opportunity to finish the season against the best in the sport. Both the Canadian FA and the players praised last year's event, had a great time and were, of course, enchanted by the hockey love of the Hungarian crowd - something they can now experience again.
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.