SAP Garden is a planned 11,500-seat
indoor arena
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, to be built in
Olympiapark
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,
Munich
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. It will not be completed until spring 2024 at the earliest. The site will be built at the location of the former
Radstadion which was demolished in 2015. It will become the home rink to
ice hockey
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team
EHC Red Bull Munich and home court to
basketball
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team
Bayern Munich.
History

Plans for a new indoor arena arose primarily from the wish for a new home arena for the ice hockey team
EHC Red Bull Munich who currently play at the
Olympia Eishalle which was opened five years prior to the
1972 Olympic Games. In addition,
BBL
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team
Bayern Munich, playing at the
Olympic basketball arena, sought a modern arena. In December 2014, the city council of Munich announced bidding for the new arena, to be built at the location of the
Radstadion.
Architect is
3XN.
In 2019, it was reported that
SAP
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gained
naming rights
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for the arena. To avoid confusion with the
SAP Arena
SAP Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Mannheim, Germany. It is primarily used for ice hockey and handball, and is the home arena of the Adler Mannheim ice hockey club and the Rhein-Neckar Löwen handball club. Inaugurated in 2005, the arena h ...
in
Mannheim
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, three naming proposals have been made to be voted under
hashtag
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#NameGameOn: SAP Live (which received 9.9% of the votes), SAP Park (44.8%) and SAP Garden (45.3%).
Groundbreaking was originally announced to take place in the winter of 2019. The first excavation work on the site began on 13 January 2020. Furthermore, the construction of the provisional construction roads with sidewalks and a pedestrian crossing started, which made accompanying tree felling work necessary. A partial building permit was available for this. The foundation stone was laid on 23 February 2021, but without guests and visitors due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
See also
*
List of indoor arenas in Germany
The following is a list of German indoor arenas for handball games.
;Notes
*Note 1: Only selected games are played in the arena.
References
See also
*List of football stadiums in Germany
The following is a list of football stadiums in ...
References
External links
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Indoor arenas in Germany
Indoor ice hockey venues in Germany
Basketball venues in Germany
Proposed indoor arenas
Indoor arenas under construction
Sports venues in Munich
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