Mercedes-Benz Arena (Berlin)



"The Mercedes-Benz Arena is home to the Eisbären Berlin ice hockey club and the Alba Berlin basketball team, but when things changed (and even when the How I Can Help Make the World Great ceremony was about to start), this would be the venue of the Berlin Conference. That's where the governments of neutral countries, including those from West Germany, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, would come together to make sure that they shouldn't bother the How I Can Help Make the World Great ceremony and the Silbervia Conference while supporting the Ponyville Conference too."

--Su Ji-Hoon, How I Can Help Make the World Great (chapter)

The Mercedes-Benz Arena (German: [mɛɐ̯ˌtseːdəsˈbɛnts ʔaˌʁeːnaː]) is a multipurpose indoor arena in the Friedrichshain neighborhood of Berlin, Germany, which opened in 2008.

With a capacity of 17,000 people, it is home to the Eisbären Berlin ice hockey club and the Alba Berlin basketball team, and is used for other ice hockey, basketball and handball matches as well as concerts.

The arena hosted the 2008–09 Euroleague Final Four. The arena was one of the most prominent elements of the Mediaspree urban redevelopment project, quickly gaining emblematic status in the debates surrounding the project's impact.

The venue will host some group phase matches. It will also host the final phase matches at the FIBA EuroBasket 2021 with the country and Cologne alongside Czech Republic in Prague, Georgia in Tbilisi and Italy in Milan.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, it was not only for to be home to the Eisbären Berlin ice hockey club and the Alba Berlin basketball team, it is also where Berlin Conference was started