Red Hall is a sports facility arena in Velenje

Velenje

Velenje is a town and municipality in northern Slovenia. The municipality has 33.331 inhabitants. Staro Velenje is first mentioned in written doucments dating to 1264 and 1374 as small market town and was a center of handicraft and trade...

, Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

. It is a home arena of handball club RK Gorenje

RK Gorenje

RK Gorenje is a team handball club from Velenje, Slovenia. Club honours 50 years of handball tradition in the region. Handball was first played in nearby town of Sostanj, but later moved to Velenje because majority of players were from Velenje and new arena called Red Hall was located there as...

. Its capacities are between 1500 - 2500 seats.

History

Red Hall was built on August 24, 1974. At first it was built to host different kinds of fairs and not sports events. However the opinion was that the object is very well constructed and offers excellent conditions to host sports events. Hall had its unofficial opening on October 11th 1975, and an interesting fact to mention is, that its capacity was 4000 seats but attendance exceeded to 6000 people on that day.

After some modifications to the object government of RS Slovenia established (May 25, 1992) the public company Sports and Recreation Center Red Hall (. Sports facility was renovated few times in its history (1989, 1994, 1998 and 2004).

Usage

Home arena of: RK Gorenje

RK Gorenje

RK Gorenje is a team handball club from Velenje, Slovenia. Club honours 50 years of handball tradition in the region. Handball was first played in nearby town of Sostanj, but later moved to Velenje because majority of players were from Velenje and new arena called Red Hall was located there as...

(men's handball club) and RK Velenje (women's handball club).

Previously hosted events:

• boxing matches
• handball matches of national teams (euro 2004)
• Futsal events
• Tennis events