Lanxess Arena

50°56′18.59″N 6°58′58.63″E / 50.9384972°N 6.9829528°E / 50.9384972; 6.9829528Public transit Köln Messe/Deutz
Bahnhof Deutz/LANXESS arenaOwnerImmobilienfonds Köln-Deutz Arena, Mantelbebauung GbROperatorArena Management GmbHCapacity20,000 (concerts)
19,500 (handball)
18,500 (hockey)SurfaceParquetry, iceConstructionBroke groundJuly 31, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-07-31)OpenedOctober 5, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-10-05)Construction cost€ 153 millionArchitectPeter Böhm^[1]TenantsKölner Haie (DEL) (1998–present)Websitelanxess-arena.de (in German)

Lanxess Arena (originally Kölnarena, German for Cologne Arena) is an indoor arena, in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is known as the 18,500-capacity home of the Kölner Haie.

It is primarily used by Kölner Haie (ice hockey), VfL Gummersbach (handball), Köln RheinStars (basketball), and as a concert venue. Lanxess Arena was the highest-attended arena of 2019, with 699,924 tickets sold.^[2]

The arena is spanned by a steel arch supporting the roof via steel cables. The height of the arch is 76 m (249 ft) and its weight is 480 tons.

On June 2, 2008, it was announced that Kölnarena would be renamed Lanxess Arena, for a period of ten years.^[3] The sponsor, Lanxess AG, is a specialty chemicals group based in the Lanxess Tower in Deutz, Cologne. This naming-rights deal was extended in 2017 until December 31, 2023. Then in October 2023, it was announced that the cooperation between the arena and Lanxess had been extended for another 5 years until 2028.

Concerts

Lanxess Arena has been one of the top entertainment venues in Cologne since its opening. Many international artists have performed at the venue, spanning a wide range of music genres. Artists that have performed their concerts at the venue are listed in the table below.

Concerts held at Lanxess Arena
Date	Nationality	Artist	Tour	Opening Act
1998
October 5	United Kingdom	Depeche Mode	The Singles Tour
October 6
November 19		Elton John	Big Picture Tour
December 27	United States	Prince	New Power Soul Tour
1999
March 8	United States	Kiss	Psycho Circus World Tour
April 15		Bruce Springsteen E Street Band	Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Reunion Tour
May 15	Germany	Scorpions	Eye to Eye Tour
June 7	United States	Backstreet Boys	Into the Millennium Tour
June 24		Aerosmith	Nine Lives Tour
September 24		Whitney Houston	My Love Is Your Love World Tour
September 28
October 19		Cher	Do You Believe?
2000
February 20	United States	Mariah Carey	Rainbow World Tour
May 6	Puerto Rico	Ricky Martin	Livin' la Vida Loca Tour
May 11	United States	Bob Dylan	Never Ending Tour 2000
June 27	United Kingdom	Elton John	Stately Home Tour
October 29	Australia	AC/DC	Stiff Upper Lip World Tour
November 13	United States	Britney Spears	Oops!... I Did It Again Tour
November 15	Australia	AC/DC	Stiff Upper Lip World Tour
2001
July 12	Ireland	U2	Elevation Tour
July 13
July 23	United Kingdom	Mark Knopfler	Sailing to Philadelphia Tour
September 26		Depeche Mode	Exciter Tour
September 27
2002
May 18	United Kingdom	Roger Waters	In the Flesh Tour
December 12	Colombia	Shakira	Tour of the Mongoose
2003
April 27	Ireland	Westlife	Unbreakable Tour
April 28
April 29	United Kingdom	Paul McCartney	Back in the World Tour
October 4	United States	Christina Aguilera	The Stripped Tour
October 31	United Kingdom	David Bowie	A Reality Tour
November 17	United States	Justin Timberlake	The Justified World Tour
December 16		Metallica	Madly in Anger with the World Tour
2004
March 15	United States	Pink	Try This Tour
March 29	Canada	Shania Twain	Up! Tour
May 28	United States	Cher	Living Proof: The Farewell Tour
November 1		Anastacia	Live at Last Tour
2005
March 1	United States	Anastacia	Live at Last Tour
April 5	Australia	Kylie Minogue	Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour
May 30	United States	Backstreet Boys	Never Gone Tour
May 31		Destiny's Child	Destiny Fulfilled... and Lovin' It
June 6	United Kingdom	Mark Knopfler	Shangri-La Tour
2006
October 19	United States	Pink	I'm Not Dead Tour
November 6		Bruce Springsteen The Sessions	Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour
November 13	United Kingdom	George Michael	25 Live
2007
April 8	Colombia	Shakira	Oral Fixation Tour
April 16	United Kingdom	Roger Waters	The Dark Side of the Moon Live
June 10	United States	Justin Timberlake	FutureSex/LoveShow
June 14		Meat Loaf	Seize The Night Tour
June 27		Aerosmith	2007 World Tour
September 15		Gwen Stefani	Sweet Escape Tour
October 29	United Kingdom	Take That	Beautiful World Tour 2007
December 13	United States	Bruce Springsteen E Street Band	Magic Tour
December 20	United Kingdom	Spice Girls	The Return of the Spice Girls
2008
May 27	Australia	Kylie Minogue	KylieX2008
June 18	Canada	Celine Dion	Taking Chances World Tour
September 8		Nickelback	Dark Horse Tour
September 12	United Kingdom	Coldplay	Viva la Vida Tour
2009
January 14	United States	Tina Turner	Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour
January 15
January 18
January 19
March 30		Pink	Funhouse Tour
May 17		Metallica	World Magnetic Tour
June 17	United Kingdom	Eagles	Long Road Out of Eden Tour
July 1	Canada	Leonard Cohen	Leonard Cohen Tour 2008–2010
October 5	United States	Green Day	21st Century Breakdown World Tour
October 29	Norway	A-ha	Foot Of The Mountain Tour [4]
November 16	United Kingdom	Muse	The Resistance Tour
November 28		Cliff Richard The Shadow	The Final Reunion Tour
November 29	Germany	Rammstein	Liebe ist für alle da Tour
December 16	United Kingdom	Paul McCartney	Good Evening Europe Tour
December 17
2010
June 20	United Kingdom	Mark Knopfler	Get Lucky Tour
September 24		Sting	Symphonicity Tour
October 14	Canada	Michael Bublé	Crazy Love Tour
October 27	United States	Linkin Park	A Thousand Suns World Tour
November 13	Germany	Scorpions	Get Your Sting and Blackout World Tour
December 11	Colombia	Shakira	The Sun Comes Out World Tour
2011
May 21	United Kingdom	Sade	Sade Live
June 21	United States	Eagles	Long Road Out of Eden Tour
July 28		Prince	Welcome 2
October 7		Red Hot Chili Peppers	I'm with You World Tour
October 18		Britney Spears	Femme Fatale Tour	Joe Jonas Destinee & Paris
November 8	Barbados	Rihanna	Loud Tour
November 29	United States	30 Seconds To Mars	Into the Wild Tour
December 15	United Kingdom	Coldplay	Mylo Xyloto Tour
2012
April 25	Canada	Michael Bublé	Crazy Love Tour
July 4	United Kingdom	Snow Patrol	Fallen Empires Tour
July 10	United States	Madonna	The MDNA Tour	Martin Solveig
September 4		Lady Gaga	Born This Way Ball
September 5
September 21	Canada	Nickelback	Here and Now Tour[5][6]
November 15	United Kingdom	Deep Purple	The Songs That Built Rock Tour
2013
April 6	Canada	Justin Bieber	Believe Tour[7]
June 5	United States	Alicia Keys	Set the World on Fire World Tour
June 26	Barbados	Rihanna	Diamonds World Tour
June 27
November 21	United Kingdom	Depeche Mode	The Delta Machine Tour
2014
March 15	United States	Beyoncé	The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour[8]	Monsieur Adi
March 16
April 20		Justin Timberlake	The 20/20 Experience World Tour	DJ Freestyle Steve
April 22
May 1	Germany	Scorpions	Get Your Sting and Blackout World Tour
May 2	United Kingdom	Peter Gabriel	Back to Front Tour[9]
May 26	United States	Miley Cyrus	Bangerz Tour
October 7		Lady Gaga	ArtRave: The Artpop Ball[10]
November 2	Germany	Helene Fischer	Farbenspiel Live
November 3
2015
March 5	United States	Katy Perry	Prismatic World Tour	Charli XCX
June 13		Ariana Grande	The Honeymoon Tour	DJ Dubz
June 19		Taylor Swift	The 1989 World Tour	James Bay
June 20
October 4	United Kingdom	Take That	Take That Live 2015[11]
October 17	Ireland	U2	Innocence + Experience Tour
October 18
October 20	Argentina	Violetta	Violetta Live International Tour
November 4	United States	Madonna	Rebel Heart Tour[12]
November 5
2016
April 13	United States	Mariah Carey	Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour
April 26	Norway	A-ha	Cast In Steel Tour [13]
March 6	United Kingdom	Muse	Drones World Tour
May 14		Adele	Adele Live 2016[14][15][16]
May 15
June 8	Australia	5 Seconds of Summer	Sounds Live Feels Live World Tour[17]
September 18	Canada	Justin Bieber	Purpose World Tour[18][19]	Vic Mensa
November 14	United States	Red Hot Chili Peppers	The Getaway World Tour
November 23	Germany	Scorpions	Get Your Sting and Blackout World Tour[20]
2017
January 17	United Kingdom	Black Sabbath	The End Tour
February 15	United States	Kings of Leon	WALLS Tour
March 2	Canada	The Weeknd	Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour[21]
March 16		Drake	Boy Meets World Tour[22][23]
March 23	United Kingdom	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour	Anne-Marie Ryan McMullan
April 10	United States	Bruno Mars	24K Magic World Tour	Anderson Paak
June 11	United Kingdom	Phil Collins	Not Dead Yet Tour[24][25]
June 12
June 14
June 15
June 16
September 14	United States	Metallica	WorldWired Tour
September 16
October 3	Germany	Helene Fischer	Helene Fischer Live 2017/2018
October 4
October 6
October 7
October 8
2018
January 15	United Kingdom	Depeche Mode	Global Spirit Tour
January 23	Germany	Helene Fischer	Helene Fischer Live 2017/2018
January 24
February 22	United States	Kendrick Lamar	The Damn Tour
March 24	Argentina	Soy Luna	Soy Luna Live
April 28	United Kingdom	Sam Smith	The Thrill of It All Tour
May 23	United States	Katy Perry	Witness: The Tour	Tove Styrke
June 5	Colombia	Shakira	El Dorado World Tour	Salva
June 6	United States	Demi Lovato	Tell Me You Love Me World Tour	Joy
July 21		Justin Timberlake	The Man of the Woods Tour	The Shadowboxers
July 22
September 4	Ireland	U2	Experience + Innocence Tour
September 5
October 8	Canada	Shania Twain	Shania Now Tour
December 4	Japan	Hatsune Miku	Hatsune Miku Expo 2018 Europe
2019
March 18	Canada	Shawn Mendes	Shawn Mendes: The Tour[26]	Alessia Cara
March 23	Trinidad and Tobago	Nicki Minaj	The Nicki Wrld Tour
September 1	United States	Ariana Grande	Sweetener World Tour	Ella Mai Social House
September 23	United Kingdom	Little Mix	LM5 The Tour
October 5	United States	Cher	Here We Go Again Tour
2020
February 11	United States	Jonas Brothers	Happiness Begins Tour
2022
May 12	United Kingdom	Dua Lipa	Future Nostalgia Tour	Griff
May 15	Norway	A-ha	Hunting High and Low Tour[27]
July 8	United States	Alicia Keys	Alicia the World Tour
July 22	United Kingdom	Harry Styles	Love on Tour	Wolf Alice
December 8	South Korea	Blackpink	Born Pink World Tour
2023
February 5	United Kingdom	Robbie Williams	XXV Tour[28]
February 6
February 8
2024
March 19	Canada	Celine Dion	Courage World Tour[29]
May 22	United States	Jonas Brothers	Five Albums. One Night. The World Tour
June 4	Trinidad and Tobago	Nicki Minaj	Pink Friday 2 World Tour
June 5
June 12	United States	Olivia Rodrigo	Guts World Tour	Remi Wolf
August 25	United States	Justin Timberlake	The Forget Tomorrow World Tour
August 26

Sports events

The arena was used for the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship, including the third place game and the final game.

On June 13, 2009, the Ultimate Fighting Championships held UFC 99 at the Lanxess Arena.^[30] This was the first time the UFC has made its way to Germany.

On May 29–30, 2010, the arena hosted the EHF Champions League Final Four.

The arena was one of the venues for the 2010 IIHF World Championship, including both semi-finals, the Bronze medal game and the Championship game.

On August 22–23, 2015, the arena hosted ESL One Cologne 2015, one of three major Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments to be held throughout 2015.^[31]

On July 5–10, 2016, the arena hosted ESL One Cologne 2016, the second $1,000,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major tournament.

From May 5 to 21, 2017, the arena co-hosted the IIHF ice hockey world championship, including all the final games.^[32]

On July 7–9, 2017, the arena hosted ESL One Cologne 2017, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament with a prize pool of $250,000.^[33]

From July 6 to 8, 2018, the arena hosted ESL One Cologne 2018. This event earned Lanxess Arena the nickname “The Cathedral Of Counter-Strike”.

On October 8, 2018, the arena hosted an exhibition ice hockey game between Kölner Haie and the Edmonton Oilers, part of the 2018 NHL Global Series Challenge.

On July 5–7, 2019, the arena hosted another edition of the ESL One Cologne, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament with a prize pool of $300,000.

From July 12 to 13, 2019, the arena will host the 2019 German Darts Masters, part of the Professional Darts Corporation World Series.

From May 22 to 24, 2020, the arena will host the 2020 Euroleague Final Four, part of Euroleague Basketball.

In 2020 the arena hosted back to back ATP 250 events. From October 11–18, Bett1Hulks Indoors and from October 17 to 25, it hosted another ATP 250 event, Bett1Hulks Championship.

From July 15 to 17 2022, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive returned to the arena after a two year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, under the moniker IEM Cologne 2022, as ESL merged their ESL One brand into their Intel Extreme Masters brand. The event offered an increased prize pool of $1,000,000.

The venue will host some group phase matches at the FIBA EuroBasket 2022 which the country and Berlin alongside Czech Republic in Prague, Georgia in Tbilisi and Italy in Milan.

The annual Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event, IEM Cologne 2023, returned to the venue on August 4 to 6, 2023, where the prize pool offered was once again $1,000,000, matching that of the previous year's. The winners, G2 Esports, took first place and $400,000.

Image gallery

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  Lanxess Arena exterior view
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  Lanxess Arena, hockey configuration
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  Lanxess Arena inside
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  Lanxess Arena during handball match between VfL Gummersbach and Frisch Auf Göppingen
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  Lanxess Arena in 2008 during an ice hockey game
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  Aerial view of LANXESS Arena in Cologne, Germany

See also

• List of indoor arenas in Germany
• List of European ice hockey arenas

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