Sportcomplex 1574

Sportcomplex 1574

Address	Telderskade 399, 2321 TR Leiden Netherlands
Owner	Municipality of Leiden
Operator	Municipality of Leiden
Capacity	2,435
Field size	10,000 m2
Construction
Built	2020–2023
Opened	7 October 2023
Construction cost	€24 million
Architect	Sylvie van Beek
Tenants
ZZ Leiden (BNXT League) (2023–present)
Website
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The Sportcomplex 1574 is an indoor arena located in Leiden, the Netherlands. The indoor hall serves as home arena for professional basketball club ZZ Leiden, and is used for various middle and high schools as gym as well.[1] The arena replaced the outdated Vijf Meihal and is located at the Telderskade.[2]

Planning and construction

Talks around a new arena for ZZ Leiden had been ongoing for years, and the municipality agreed on demolishing the outdated Vijf Meihal and 6 Oktoberhal and on building a new indoor hall in 2018.[3]

Construction began in 2022 and costed approximately €24 million. There had been discussions between the municipality of Leiden and ZZ Leiden regarding the attendance capacity of the planned arena. The basketball club insisted on building a hall with a capacity of at least 3,000, in order to meet FIBA regulations to play international games in the Basketball Champions League. Eventually, in 2018, the municipality decided to build the arena with a capacity for 2,435 people.[4]

The official name was announced in December 2022, after a survey among 500 Leiden citizens, and refers to the year in which the city was liberated following the Siege of Leiden.[5] Its indoor hall was named "Aad van der Luithal".[5]

The indoor hall was officially inaugurated on 7 October 2023 with a game between ZZ Leiden and BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque in the FIBA Europe Cup.[6][7]

References

1. "Binnensport". Sport in Leiden (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 July 2024.
2. "Sportcomplex 1574 te Leiden". EWZ (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 July 2024.
3. RadioGuys.nl. "Oplevering Sportcomplex 1574 stapje dichterbij: 'Wind- en waterdicht'". Sleutelstad. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
4. Bijl, Paul van der (31 August 2022). "De nieuwe hal, hoe ziet die eruit?". De Blauwe Brigade (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 July 2024.
5. RadioGuys.nl. "Indoor Sportcentrum heet Sportcomplex 1574". Sleutelstad. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
6. Dieleman, Tom (2 September 2023). "ZZ Leiden staat voor stap naar hal van 24 miljoen euro: 'Er is zó veel mis'". www.omroepwest.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 July 2024.
7. Weber, Natasja (29 October 2023). "Tóch basketbalsfeer in de nieuwe Leidse hal met nog vele kinderziektes". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 July 2024.