and the basketball clubs BC Kyiv and BC Budivelnyk. Major sporting events to be held at the arena include the 2012 Professional Hockey League All-Star Game, 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship and 2013 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. Eurovision It hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, which required the facilities to be brought up to the standard stipulated by the European Broadcasting Union. Four years later, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was hosted in the venue. It is one of the two venues to have hosted both the junior and adult versions of the song contest (The other being Rotterdam Ahoy which hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and the Eurovision Song Contest 2021). Concerts The Sports Palace is also a popular venue for concerts, having been the venue for Didier Marouani and Space on 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 of July 1983, Ace of Base, Backstreet Boys, Black Eyed Peas, Britney Spears, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, A-ha, Jamiroquai, Jean Michel Jarre, Moby, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Muse, Placebo, Limp Bizkit, The Rasmus, Christina Aguilera, Anastacia, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Rea, Lara Fabian, Depeche Mode, Sting, Marilyn Manson, The Prodigy and others. Business The Sports Palace hosts annual business events, such as: Megatraining, Dream Big Forum, Big Money Forum, Business Concentrate, and Online Business Laboratory. References External links Sports venues completed in 1960 Indoor arenas in Ukraine Indoor arenas built in the Soviet Union Ice hockey venues in Ukraine Sports venues in Kyiv Pecherskyi District 1960 establishments in Ukraine Concert halls in Ukraine