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| name               = Sports Park Stožice
| local name         = Športni park Stožice
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| street             = Vojkova 100
| town               = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| map                = http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lon=14.52383&lat=46.08053&zoom=15&layer=mapnik
| website            = https://www.sport-ljubljana.si/Center_stozice/
| email              = info@sportni-park-stozice.si
| telephone          = 386 (0) 1 430 6660
| fax                = 386 (0) 1 231 7784 
| founded by         = Municipality of Ljubljana
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| managed by         = Šport Ljubljana Public Institute
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| contacts     = {{Contact
  | name        = Tatjana Polajnar
  | role        = Director
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  | email       = tatjana.polajnar@sport-ljubljana.si
  | telephone   = 386 (0) 1 430 6660
  | fax         = 386 (0) 1 231 7784
  }}{{Contact
  | name        = Vesna Prodan
  | role        = Secretary
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  | email       = vesna.prodan@sport-ljubljana.si
  | telephone   = 386 (0) 1 430 6660, 386 (0) 5 162 5913 (mobile)
  | fax         = 386 (0) 1 231 7784
  }}{{Contact
  | name        = Kristijan Salmič
  | role        = Arena Stožice Hall
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  | email       = kristijan.salmic@sport-ljubljana.si
  | telephone   = 386 (0) 8 387 6086, 386 (0) 51 653 563 (mobile)
  | fax         = 386 (0) 8 387 6087
  }}{{Contact
  | name        = Andrej Kastelic
  | role        = Stožice Stadium
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  | email       = andrej.kastelic@sport-ljubljana.si
  | telephone   = 386 (0) 1 432 5050, 386 (0) 4 178 0050 (mobile)
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The [[Sports Park Stožice]] is the largest commercial entertainment venue in Slovenia, designed by [[Sadar-Vuga Arhitekti]] and built in [[established::2010]]. The complex on the outskirts of Ljubljana comprises Stožice Stadium and Arena Stožice hall as well as a shopping centre. 

== Arena Stožice ==
The Arena Stožice multi-purpose hall can host 12,480 sports fans or 14,480 visitors for concerts or other performing arts events. The hall that covers 14,164 m2 is intended for indoor sports and is home to various national sports teams such as KK Olimpija, RK Mercator Krim, ACH Volley Bled. In the lower parts of the Stožice Hall there is also a smaller warm-up hall and a climbing center.
The first concerts in the Arena Stožice were given by José Carreras, Leonard Cohen, Joe Cocker, Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra, in 2011 by Zucchero, The Chemical Brothers and Sting, the latter within the concert tour ''Symphonicity'', which was in Ljubljana accompanied by the [[Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra]], conducted by Sarah Hicks.

== Stožice Stadium ==
The Stožice Stadium, however, can hold 16,038 spectators for sports events and 23,000 for music concerts. The total area of the stadium is 24,614 m2. 
Stožice Stadium is also the home stadium of the NK Olimpija football club and the Slovenian national football team.
The first music event at the Stadium Stožice was performed by [[Siddharta]] in June 2011.
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The Sports Park Stožice is managed by the Šport Ljubljana Public Institute. Upon completion of the surrounding park, designed by [[Studio AKKA]], there will also be a children's playground, a skateboarding and inline skating park, jogging and biking tracks, and ski running tracks in the winter. 




==See also==
*[[Sadar-Vuga Arhitekti]]
*[[Studio AKKA]]
*[[Municipality of Ljubljana]]

==External links==
* [http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0portni_park_Sto%C5%BEice Sports Park Stožice on Wikipedija] (in Slovenian)
**[http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam_dogodkov_v_Areni_Sto%C5%BEice List of events in Arena Stožice Hall on Wikipedija] (in Slovenian)
**[http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam_dogodkov_na_Stadionu_Sto%C5%BEice List of events at the Stožice Stadium on Wikipedija] (in Slovenian)
* [http://www.archdaily.com/22268/sports-park-stozice-sadar-vuga-kss-mysi-ofis/ Archdaily on the architecture of the Sports Park Stožice]
* [http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2012/06/07/sadar-vuga-sportni-park-stozice.html Sadar+Vuga: Sportni Park Stožice in Domus]

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