7. Hakametsä Ice Stadium

A condition for the 1965 Ice Hockey World Championships in Finland was that an indoor ice stadium be built for the tournament. When Helsinki took their time thinking about it, the people of Tampere took the lead, and the first indoor ice stadium in Finland was opened on 29 January 1965 in Hakametsä. Training rinks were also built on the site in 1974 and 1995.

Over the decades, this stadium, designed by architect Jaakko Tähtinen, became a real shrine to Finnish ice hockey. Eleven Finnish ice hockey championships were won there and it was the venue for the 1982, 1991, 1997 and 2003 men’s world championship tournaments and the 1992 women’s world championship tournament. The last main league match was played here between Tappara and HPK on 27 November 2021. The Hakametsä Ice Stadium will be preserved as part of a new sports campus being built around it.

Address: Keltinkatu 2, 33530 Tampere

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Flags in front of Hakametsä ice stadium in Ice Hockey World Championships 1965.
Flags outside Hakametsä Ice Stadium during the 1965 World Championships.
Updated 10.5.2023