Sporthal Arena is an indoor arena in Deurne, Antwerp,

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. Built it 1966, it has a capacity for 2,100 people, 1,196 of which are

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.Deurne: Sporthal Arena opent opnieuw de deuren
An 800,000 Euro renovation works took place between April 2008-February 2009. The

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

club

Antwerp Diamond Giants Antwerp Giants, named Telenet Giants Antwerp for sponsorship reasons, are a Belgian professional basketball club based in Antwerp. Their home arena is Lotto Arena. The club plays in the BNXT League, the highest tier of Belgian basketball. The clu ...

used the arena before moving to

Lotto Arena Lotto Arena is an arena in Antwerp, Belgium. It has a seating capacity for 8,050 people for concerts and 5,218 for sporting events. The arena opened on March 10, 2007, after nine months of construction.

, and the club junior squad as well as practice sessions of the senior squad still take place at the arena. The arena hosted the 1971

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European Champions cup

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in which

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defeated Ignis Varese 67-53Champions Cup 1970-71
/ref> and the 1975 final of the same competition in which Ignis Varese defeated Real Madrid 79–66.Champions Cup 1974-75
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Sporthal Arena (Deurne)
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