UCI BMX World Championships 2015 Women's European Volleyball Championship 2017 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2019 Men's European Volleyball Championship It was a venue for the European finals of Superstars, the televised all-around sports competition from 1975 to 1977 and again in 1979. In 2016, the venue hosted the mixed martial arts event UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Arlovski. In 2017, the venue again hosted the UFC for UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve. Music television The 1997 and 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 were also held in the Ahoy Arena. Rotterdam Ahoy was also planned to be the host venue for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. It would have been the second venue to host both the junior and adult editions of the contest, after the Palace of Sports, Kyiv in Ukraine. On 18 March 2020, the EBU announced the cancellation of the contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic as the Dutch government requested that the arena would be utilised as a field hospital. Instead, Rotterdam Ahoy hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 which took place on 18, 20 and 22 May 2021. See also List of tennis stadiums by capacity List of convention centres in the Netherlands List of indoor arenas in the Netherlands References External links Indoor arenas in the Netherlands Tennis venues in the Netherlands Velodromes in the Netherlands Concert halls in the Netherlands Convention centres in the Netherlands Darts venues Indoor track and field venues Judo venues Sports venues completed in 1971 1971 establishments in the Netherlands Cycling in Rotterdam Buildings and structures in Rotterdam Sports venues in Rotterdam