Coop Norrbotten Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in

Luleå Luleå ( , , locally ; ; ) is a Cities in Sweden, city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the County Administrative Boards of Sweden, capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban ...

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. The

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of the arena is 6,150, and it is the home arena of the

Luleå HF Luleå Hockeyförening, also known as Luleå Hockey, is a professional ice hockey club from Luleå, Sweden. The club has been playing in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), the top tier of ice hockey in Sweden, since the 1984–85 season. They are ...

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team.

History

It was opened on 13 September 1970, and was called ''Delfinen'' ("The

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") until 2002 when it was refurbished and the

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were sold to the local division of the Swedish retail company

Kooperativa Förbundet KF (, "Co-operative Union") is a federation of consumer co-operatives in Sweden and a retail group, with groceries as its core business. History KF was founded in 1899 by 41 local consumer co-operatives in order to support them with informatio ...

, who renamed it ''Coop Arena''. In 2010, it was renamed Coop Norrbotten Arena, although it's still occasionally referred to as "Coop Arena". The arena hosted the first semi-final of Melodifestivalen 2011 on 5 February 2011, and hosted the third semi-final of Melodifestivalen 2020 on 15 February 2020.

References

External links

Coop Norrbotten Arena at Luleå HF's website

Hockeyarenas.net entry
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History

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