Patinoire des Vernets is an arena

Arena

An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the...

 in Geneva

Geneva

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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. It is primarily used for ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 and is the home arena of Genève-Servette HC

Genève-Servette HC

Genève-Servette HC, is a professional ice hockey team based in Geneva, Switzerland and compete in National League A.-History:* 1905 : Foundation of Servette FC's ice hockey section....

. opened in 1958, it has a seating capacity

Seating capacity

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 for 6,700 people.

The arena hosted the 1962 FIBA Champions Cup

Suproleague

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 final in which Dynamo Tbilisi

BC Dinamo Tbilisi

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 of Georgia (then Soviet Georgia) defeated Real Madrid

Real Madrid Baloncesto

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 90-83.The 1976 and 1984 finals of the same competition was also hosted at the arena. The arena also hosted the 1991 cup winners cup

Saporta Cup

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final.