The Home Credit Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in

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. The capacity of the arena is 9,000 people and it was built in 2005. It is currently home to the

HC Bílí Tygři Liberec Bílí Tygři Liberec (English: ''Liberec White Tigers'') are a professional ice hockey club based in Liberec, Czech Republic. The team competes in the Czech Extraliga, the highest level of play in professional Czech ice hockey. History The firs ...

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team. It hosted matches from Group B and the Relegation Round at the

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. It is also a venue for home games of Polish basketball team

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in the Eurocup and

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. In its first five years of operation, the Arena welcomed 1.4 million visitors and hosted 467 events.

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