Pavelló Girona-Fontajau

Pavelló Girona-Fontajau is an indoor arena in Girona, Catalonia, northern Spain, that holds 5,500 people. It is primarily used for basketball and is the home arena of Uni Girona CB and Bàsquet Girona.

Pavelló Girona-Fontajau
Full namePavelló Girona-Fontajau
OwnerTown Hall of Girona
Capacity5,500
Record attendance7,450
(Valvi Girona v Breogán; 30 April 1995)[1]
SurfaceParquet Floor
Opened4 September 1993
Tenants
CB Sant Josep (1993–2013)
Uni Girona CB
Bàsquet Girona
Outdoors

The building was designed in 1993 by the architects Esteve Bonell and Josep M. Gil and was opened on September 4th, 1993. It is structured in two levels, one for the public (the high level) and another, of which use is restricted to the sportsmen (the low level), with differentiated entries.

Apart from basketball, it is used also for other sports like Indoor motorcycle trials[2] and tennis matches.

Notable events

Fontajau hosted the matches of three groups of the EuroBasket 1997 and the 2007 FIBA EuroCup Final Four, that local club Akasvayu Girona won.

In 2017, it hosted the Copa de la Reina de Baloncesto.[3]

Attendances

This is a list of league attendances of CB Girona when it played in the Liga ACB.

Season Total High Low Average
1994–95 ACB101,8397,4503,0004,629
1995–96 ACB94,6526,0824,0714,982
1996–97 ACB75,3526,5152,4324,432
1997–98 ACB80,0085,8994,1334,706
1998–99 ACB81,7655,9302,8404,543
1999–2000 ACB72,5433,0334,9884,267
2000–01 ACB70,4595,0132,4384,145
2001–02 ACB74,1694,9893,7594,363
2002–03 ACB65,2735,3692,8903,840
2003–04 ACB75,3315,9813,1554,431
2004–05 ACB77,2635,9423,2344,545
2005–06 ACB94,9345,9724,1234,997
2006–07 ACB86,0395,2273,8254,528
2007–08 ACB75,3035,2202,8244,184

References
  1. Valvi Girona 77–67 Breogán Lugo; ACB.com. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  2. Trial Girona
  3. "La Copa de la Reina 2017 se pone de largo en Girona" (in Spanish). FEB.es. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2017.

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