Chairman of the Board of Directors SKA Alexander Medvedev in a comment, answered the question whether a stadium similar to the new SKA Arena could appear in Russia.
On February 11, SKA played its first match in the new SKA Arena. The match against Sochi (8:1) was attended by 21,481 people. This is officially the most attended game in the history of hockey stadiums.
— Is it possible to copy the SKA Arena to another Russian city? So the money was found, the desire arose, and…
– Well, why copy? You should always think about the appropriate size for the city. We are building an arena in Nizhny Novgorod.
— There they are building for 12,000, then there are 21,500. Even in Moscow there is no such arena.
– Let Muscovites think about why they don’t have it. Do they need such an arena? Although we see that attendance at hockey matches is also increasing – at Spartak, Dynamo and CSKA. When you want to come to this hockey house, the most important thing is precisely this desire. And the guys feel it. We were just talking about the fact that they had captured this nerve, this spirit. It is futile to think that hockey players don’t care where they play.
— Congratulations to everyone on your housewarming party!
– THANKS. I also congratulate all the fans. While tickets are still available, come to the SKA Arena from all over Russia. And there are also tickets for Sapsan, I watched it,” Medvedev said in an interview with .
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