Bossard Arena is an
indoor sporting arena located in
Zug
, neighboring_municipalities = Cham, Baar, Walchwil, Steinhausen, Unterägeri
, twintowns = Fürstenfeld (Austria), Kalesija (Bosnia-Herzegowina)
Zug (Standard German: , Alemannic German: ; french: Zoug it, Zugo r ...
,
Switzerland. The capacity of the arena is 7,200 spectators and opened in 2010. It hosts indoor sporting events such as
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...
. It hosts the
EV Zug
EV Zug is a professional men's ice hockey team from Zug, Switzerland. It is a member of the National League and plays its home games at the Bossard Arena.
History
EV Zug won its first championship in the 1997–98 season, and the second one in ...
of the
National League
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team ...
(NL). It replaced
Eishalle Herti as the home of EV Zug. The venue takes is named after
Bossard Holding, an international
logistics
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company headquartered in the city.
Size issues
The arena has faced many critics from EV Zug management and fans for being too limited in terms of capacity. In the summer of 2017, EV Zug added an additional 200 seats close to the boards, on ice level. At the beginning of the
2019-20 season, EVZ CEO Patrick Lengwiler expressed his intentions to the city of Zug, the current owner of the Arena, to extend the capacity to 9,000. The team is currently forced to limit season tickets sales to 6,000 due to the small capacity and could benefits economically from an extension as demand is high in Zug with the team being very popular.
The issue was again brought back in the media in September 2020 to try and make the city of Zug act quickly.
See also
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List of indoor arenas in Switzerland
The following is a list of indoor arenas in Switzerland with a capacity of at least 1,000 spectators, most of the arenas in this list are for multi use proposes and are used for popular sports such as individual sports like karate, judo, boxing as ...
References
External links
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Indoor arenas in Switzerland
Zug
Buildings and structures in the canton of Zug
Sports venues completed in 2010
Handball venues in Switzerland
21st-century architecture in Switzerland
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