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Revision as of 21:04, 31 July 2007
Template:Infobox Arena Nokia Arena is a 11,700 seats sports and entertainment indoor arena in south-east Tel Aviv, Israel. It is often called informally Yad Eliyahu Arena, after the neighborhood in which it is located. The arena was opened on 17 September 1963 in a game between the national basketball teams of Israel and Yugoslavia, in which the latter won 69-64. In its early years it held a capacity for 5000 spectators, with just concrete stands, without any seats, and without a roof. After a few years a second floor of tiers was built, increasing the capacity to 10,000 spectators, the concrete stands were covered by seats and the arena was covered with a roof.
The arena is the home of Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, a member of the Maccabi Tel Aviv sports club, and since 2005 it is also the home of Maccabi's city rival, Hapoel Tel Aviv for a short period of time. The facility is the largest indoor sport arena in Israel, and therefore the Israeli final-four and the Israeli cup semi-finals and finals are hosted there, and the Israeli national team hosts most of the games in Nokia Arena.
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