08.07.2003

IIHF President René FASEL visited SAZKA ARENA building site for the fourth time on Thursday 4th July, 2003 where next IIHF World Championships should be played. “I´m enthusiastic and at the same time convinced that the arena will be finished and all of us will see great championship in it,“ Fasel said after inspection of the building site.

29.04.2003

The 2004 IIHF World Chmpionship which should be hosted by the Czech republic at the edge of April and May will take place in Arena Vítkovice in Ostrava which goes under a 700 million CZK reconstruction and in a nwwly build SAZKA ARENA in Prague 9, which building will cost according to the available figures some 6 billion CZK.