Venue: Gatorade Center
Address: Artukaistentie 8, 20210 Turku
Town: Turku, FI
Capacity: 11,820

The Gatorade Center (commonly referred to as Turkuhalli in Finnish and Åbohallen in Swedish) is a multi-functional indoor arena in the district of Artukainen in Turku, Finland. Opened in November 1990, it can hold 10,500 spectators for ice hockey games. It is primarily used for ice hockey, and is the home arena of TPS, but it is also frequently used to host concerts and other events such as the Maata Näkyvissä Festival. A record attendance of 12,041 for a hockey match was registered in 1991. The arena, Turku Fair and Congress Centre, and a riding school were built on the former runways of the Artukainen Airport (1935-1955), which served as the main airport of Turku until Turku Airport was built in 1955. The arena was built for the needs of hosting the Ice Hockey World Championships, during which it was the main venue of the games. There were, among others, matches of the group stage and the final stage of the tournament. It was the first arena to be built in Finland with a capacity of more than 10,000 people. It was not until 1997 that a larger venue was opened, this being Hartwall Arena in the Finnish capital Helsinki. The Gatorade Center was designed by architectural firm Casagrande and Haroma Oy and cost 145 million Finnmarks (24.4 million euros). The city of Turku paid 95 million Finnmarks (16 million euros) towards this. The arena was opened, as Typhoon Arena, on November 25, 1990 by the Minister of Transport and Communications, Ilkka Kanerva. The first hockey match that took place on that day was played between TPS Turku and SaiPa. It was renamed Elysée Arena after its main sponsor Marli in the summer of 1994 and retained this name until 2007. From the summer of 2006, the arena was called Turkuhalli, which has been used in marketing in addition to the sponsor's name since the early days of the venue. In 1996 and 1997, the arena was extended by an annex, which contained a second entrance, 28 new VIP boxes, space for a new restaurant and a new vestibule. The ext