Beijing Wukesong Culture & Sports Center
| 乐视体育生态中心 | |
.jpg)
Exterior of arena
|
|
| Former names | MasterCard Center (2011–15) Wukesong Culture & Sports Center (2008–11) |
|---|---|
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Owner | Bloomage International Investment Group |
| Operator | AEG China |
| Capacity |
18,000 for basketball 14,000 for hockey |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 29 March 2005 |
| Opened | 11 January 2008 |
| Renovated | 2009 |
| Closed | October 2008 – November 2009 |
| Architect | Gu Yonghui |
| Tenants | |
|
Chinese Olympic Committee 2008 Summer Olympics 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup 2022 Winter Olympics Beijing Ducks HC Kunlun Red Star Beijing Lions |
|
| Website | |
| www |
|
18,000 for basketball
The LeSports Center (simplified Chinese: 乐视体育生态中心; traditional Chinese: 樂視體育生態中心), originally Beijing Wukesong Culture & Sports Center (simplified Chinese: 五棵松体育馆; traditional Chinese: 五棵松體育館) and Beijing Olympic Basketball Arena, is an indoor arena for the 2008 Summer Olympics basketball preliminaries and finals. Ground was broken on 29 March 2005 and construction was completed on 11 January 2008. The stadium has a capacity of 18,000 and covers an area of 63,000 square metres.
The stadium was constructed by "Beijing Wukesong Cultural & Sports Co. Ltd." whose five shareholders are Zhongguancun CENCONS Group, Haidian State-owned Assets Investment Co. Ltd, Beijing Urban Construction Group Co. Ltd, Beijing Urban Construction Co. Ltd and the Tianhong Group. After the Olympic Games, the center become an important part of Beijing's Olympic Games heritage, allowing citizens to enjoy cultural, sports, leisure, recreational and commercial activities. It was a large-scale comprehensive project rare in Beijing in integrating cultural, sporting functions and commercial purposes with large-scale gardens and green space.
On 6 January 2011 MasterCard Worldwide, the rival of Olympic sponsor Visa, announced the acquisition of the naming rights to the Center. It was renamed MasterCard Center effective from 21 January 2011.
On 14 December 2015 the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) announced that its Beijing expansion team would play in the arena.
Two days later, on 16 December 2015, LeTV Sports announced that it has obtained naming rights for the arena. It was officially renamed as LeSports Center on 1 January 2016. Beyond that, LeSports promised to provide a package of intellectual services inside the arena and out.
On 5 September 2016, Kunlun Red Star defenseman Anssi Salmela scored the first goal in the arena's first hockey game and the first home goal for Kunlun in KHL. Red Star have won the game 6-3.
...
Wikipedia