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Lanxess Arena

Indoor arena in Cologne, Germany

Summary

Indoor arena in Cologne, Germany

Field	Value
name	LANXESS arena
logo_image	[[File:LANXESS arena Logo.svg	185px]]
image	Lanxess-Arena, Köln-7892.jpg
location	Deutz, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
coordinates
broke_ground
opened
owner	Immobilienfonds Köln-Deutz Arena, Mantelbebauung GbR
operator	Arena Management GmbH
surface	Parquetry, ice
construction_cost	€ 153 million
architect	Peter Böhm
former_names	Kölnarena (1998–2008)
tenants	Kölner Haie (DEL) (1998–present)

website
seating_capacity	20,000 (concerts)
19,500 (handball)
18,500 (hockey)

EHF Champions League (2010–present) 19,500 (handball) 18,500 (hockey) Köln Messe/Deutz

Bahnhof Deutz/LANXESS arena Lanxess Arena (stylized as 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 and as one of Germany's major music venues. As of 2019, Lanxess Arena was the highest-attended arena worldwide, with 699,924 tickets sold. The arena is spanned by a notable steel arch supporting the roof via steel cables. The height of the arch is 76 m and its weight is 480 tons.

History

On June 2, 2008, it was announced that Kölnarena would be renamed Lanxess Arena, for a period of ten years. 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.

Events

The arena is primarily used by Kölner Haie (ice hockey), VfL Gummersbach (handball), Köln RheinStars (basketball), and as a concert venue. In the world of Counter-Strike eSports, the venue is known as "The Cathedral", having played host to the annual Intel Extreme Masters Cologne event since 2015, including two Major Championships, with a third planned.

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.

Date	Nationality	Artist	Tour	Opening Act
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
March 8	United States	Kiss	Psycho Circus World Tour	Buckcherry
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	Amanda Marshall
September 28
October 19	Cher	Do You Believe?	Belinda Carlisle
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	Slash's Snakepit
November 13	United States	Britney Spears	Oops!... I Did It Again Tour
November 15	Australia	AC/DC	Stiff Upper Lip World Tour	Slash's Snakepit
July 12	Ireland	U2	Elevation Tour	Söhne Mannheims
July 13
July 23	United Kingdom	Mark Knopfler	Sailing to Philadelphia Tour
September 26	Depeche Mode	Exciter Tour
September 27
May 18	United Kingdom	Roger Waters	In the Flesh Tour
May 20	United States	Destiny's Child	Destiny's Child World Tour
December 12	Colombia	Shakira	Tour of the Mongoose
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
March 15	United States	Pink	Try This Tour
March 29	Canada	Shania Twain	Up! Tour	Bjorn Again
May 28	United States	Cher	Living Proof: The Farewell Tour
November 1	Anastacia	Live at Last Tour
March 1	United States	Anastacia	Live at Last Tour
April 5	Australia	Kylie Minogue	Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour	Melody Club
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
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
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	CSS
October 29	United Kingdom	Take That	Beautiful World Tour 2007	Sophie Ellis-Bextor
December 13	United States	Bruce Springsteen
E Street Band	Magic Tour
December 20	United Kingdom	Spice Girls	The Return of the Spice Girls
May 27	Australia	Kylie Minogue	KylieX2008
June 18	Canada	Celine Dion	Taking Chances World Tour	Jon Mesek
September 8	Nickelback	Dark Horse Tour
September 12	United Kingdom	Coldplay	Viva la Vida Tour	High Wire
Albert Hammond Jr.
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	Machine Head
The Sword
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	Prima Donna
October 29	Norway	A-ha	Foot Of The Mountain Tour
November 16	United Kingdom	Muse	The Resistance Tour	Biffy Clyro
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
June 20	United Kingdom	Mark Knopfler	Get Lucky Tour
September 24	Sting	Symphonicity Tour
October 14	Canada	Michael Bublé	Crazy Love Tour	Naturally 7
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
May 21	United Kingdom	Sade	Sade Live	The Jolly Boys
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	Femi Kuti & The Positive Force
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	Emeli Sandé
April 25	Canada	Michael Bublé	Crazy Love Tour	Naturally 7
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	The Darkness
Lady Starlight
September 5
September 21	Canada	Nickelback	Here and Now Tour
November 15	United Kingdom	Deep Purple	The Songs That Built Rock Tour
April 6	Canada	Justin Bieber	Believe Tour
June 5	United States	Alicia Keys	Set the World on Fire World Tour
June 26	Barbados	Rihanna	Diamonds World Tour	GTA
June 27
November 21	United Kingdom	Depeche Mode	The Delta Machine Tour
March 15	United States	Beyoncé	The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour	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
May 26	United States	Miley Cyrus	Bangerz Tour
October 7	Lady Gaga	ArtRave: The Artpop Ball	Lady Starlight
November 2	Germany	Helene Fischer	Farbenspiel Live
November 3
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	Ella Henderson
Nessi
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	Mary Mac
November 5
April 13	United States	Mariah Carey	Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour
April 26	Norway	A-ha	Cast In Steel Tour
March 6	United Kingdom	Muse	Drones World Tour	Royal Blood
May 14	Adele	Adele Live 2016
May 15
June 8	Australia	5 Seconds of Summer	Sounds Live Feels Live World Tour	Don Broco
September 18	Canada	Justin Bieber	Purpose World Tour	Vic Mensa
November 14	United States	Red Hot Chili Peppers	The Getaway World Tour	Deerhoof
November 23	Germany	Scorpions	Get Your Sting and Blackout World Tour
January 17	United Kingdom	Black Sabbath	The End Tour	Rival Sons
February 15	United States	Kings of Leon	WALLS Tour
March 2	Canada	The Weeknd	Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour	Lil Uzi Vert
Bryson Tiller
March 16	Drake	Boy Meets World Tour
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
June 12
June 14
June 15
June 16
September 14	United States	Metallica	WorldWired Tour	Kvelertak
September 16
October 3	Germany	Helene Fischer	Helene Fischer Live 2017/2018
October 4
October 6
October 7
October 8
January 15	United Kingdom	Depeche Mode	Global Spirit Tour	The Horrors
January 23	Germany	Helene Fischer	Helene Fischer Live 2017/2018
January 24
February 22	United States	Kendrick Lamar	The Damn Tour	James Blake
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	Bastian Baker
December 4	Japan	Hatsune Miku	Hatsune Miku Expo 2018 Europe
March 18	Canada	Shawn Mendes	Shawn Mendes: The Tour	Alessia Cara
March 23	Trinidad and Tobago	Nicki Minaj	The Nicki Wrld Tour	Zuna & Azet
Miami Yacine
Juice WRLD
September 1	United States	Ariana Grande	Sweetener World Tour	Ella Mai
Social House
September 23	United Kingdom	Little Mix	LM5 The Tour	Keelie Walker
October 5	United States	Cher	Here We Go Again Tour	Bright Light Bright Light
KidCutUp
February 11	United States	Jonas Brothers	Happiness Begins Tour	Jordan McGraw
Picture This
May 12	United Kingdom	Dua Lipa	Future Nostalgia Tour	Griff
May 15	Norway	A-ha	Hunting High and Low Tour
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
February 5	United Kingdom	Robbie Williams	XXV Tour
February 6
February 8
March 19	Canada	Celine Dion	Courage World Tour
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 11	Colombia	Karol G	Mañana será bonito Tour
June 12	United States	Olivia Rodrigo	Guts World Tour	Remi Wolf
June 14	Albania	Elvana Gjata	Dekada
July 11	United States	Megan Thee Stallion	Hot Girl Summer Tour
August 25	United States	Justin Timberlake	The Forget Tomorrow World Tour
August 26
October 6	United States	Janet Jackson	Janet Jackson: Together Again	Wyclef Jean
October 12	Serbia	Aleksandra Prijović	Od Istoka Do Zapada Tour

Sports and computer gaming

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. This was the first time the UFC had made its way to Germany.
From 2010, the arena host the handball 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.
From 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.
From July 5–10, 2016, the arena hosted ESL One Cologne 2016, the second $1,000,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major tournament and the second held at the arena.
From May 5–21, 2017, the arena co-hosted the IIHF ice hockey world championship, including all the final games.
From July 7–9, 2017, the arena hosted ESL One Cologne 2017, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament with a prize pool of $250,000.
From July 6–8, 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.
From 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 12–13, 2019, the arena hosted the 2019 German Darts Masters, part of the Professional Darts Corporation World Series.
From May 22–24, 2020, the arena hosted 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 17–25, Bett1Hulks Championship.
From 15–17 July, 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 hosted some group phase matches at the FIBA EuroBasket 2022 which Germany hosted. It cohosted with the fellow German city of Berlin, 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 from 4–6 August, 2023, when the prize pool offered was once again $1,000,000, matching that of the previous year. The winners, G2 Esports, took first place and $400,000.
On 3 August 2025, after the IEM Cologne 2025 Counter-Strike 2 tournament won by Team Spirit, ESL announced that Cologne would play host to the IEM Cologne Major 2026 from 18–21 June, 2026, the third Major to be held at the arena and the fourth in Cologne overall.

Notes

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[http://www.german-architects.com/en/Peter_Boehm_Architekten/projects-3/cologne_arena-18036/?nonav=1 Peter Böhm Architekten - Cologne Arena]
[https://data.pollstar.com/chart/2019/07/2019MidYearWorldwideTicketSalesTop200ArenaVenues_752.pdf Worldwide Ticket Sales - TOP 200 Arena Venues]
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