2017 FIFA Confederations Cup

2017 FIFA Confederations Cup

The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, the 10th edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup, will be held between 17 June and 2 July 2017, as a prelude to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The host will be Russia as announced on 2 December 2010.Brazil are the four-time defending champions.

Since the host country, Russia and the 2014 World Cup Champions, Germany, are both from UEFA, and a third team will qualify from UEFA Euro 2016, this will be the first time that three teams from the same confederation will take part in any Confederations Cup. 2015 AFC Asian Cup winners Australia became the first team to qualify from multiple confederations, having previously represented the OFC in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

 

Accommodation during Confederations Cup

Schedule of Confederations Cup

Stadiums of Confederations Cup

Stadiums of Championship

Megasport Arena

Megasport Arena (formerly, Khodynka Arena or Ice Sport Palace on the Khodynka Field, Russian: Ледовый дворец спорта на Ходынском поле Translite Ledovy dvorets sporta na Khodynskom polye) is a multi-purpose arena in Moscow, Russia. The arena has a maximum capacity of 13,926 people.

It is situated in the Khodynka Field and was completed in December 2006.

It was one of the arenas to host the 2007 Men’s World Ice Hockey Championships.

It also was the home of the Sultan Ibragimov vs. Evander Holyfield World Heavyweight Title Fight on October 13, 2007.

On 23 January 2008, CSKA Moscow hosted a Euroleague Regular season game against TAU Cerámica in the arena, in front of a near sellout 13,000 attendance crowd.

In November 2008, the Cup of Russia figure skating competition was held there.

Another important event hosted at the arena was the 2006-07 CEV Champions League Final four, in which Tours VB won the title after defeating VfB Friedrichshafen.

This arena was rumored to be the venue for the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in 2009, but instead the competition was held at theOlympic Indoor Arena in Moscow.

On March 24, 2011, the International Skating Union (ISU) relocated the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships to the Megasport Arena in Moscow.[This decision followed the cancellation of the championships in Tokyo, Japan due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The championships was staged from April 24 – May 1, 2011.

The 2011 European Curling Championships was hosted at the arena in December 2011.

Ice Palace

Ice Palace (Russian: Ледовый Дворец, Ledovy Dvorets) is an arena in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was built for the 2000 IIHF World Championship and opened in 2000. It holds 12,300 people.

Ice Palace is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena for SKA St. Petersburg. It hosted the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. It is also used for concerts, exhibitions and as a skating rink.

American superstar Cher performed during her marathon Living Proof: The Farewell Tour on June 24, 2004.

Sting performed during his Symphonicities Tour on September 13, 2010, along with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jennifer Lopez took her first world tour Dance Again World Tour on November 8, 2012.

Placebo will be performing on July 7, 2014 on their Loud Like Love Tour.

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Accomodation during Championship in Moscow

Accomodation during Championship in Saint Petersburg

Schedule of Championship

 

 

Schedule of Championship

Schedule of Championship will be soon

 

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Sochi

Sochi

Sochi (Russian: Со́чи; IPA: [ˈsotɕɪ] is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/Abkhazia and Russia. The Greater Sochi area, which includes territories and localities subordinated to Sochi proper, has a total area of 3,526 square kilometers (1,361 sq mi) and sprawls for 145 kilometers (90 mi) along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains. The area of the city proper is 176.77 square kilometers (68.25 sq mi).According to the 2010 Census, the city had a permanent population of 343,334,up from 328,809 recorded in the 2002 Census, making it Russia’s largest resort city. Being part of the Caucasian Riviera, it is one of the very few places in Russia with a subtropical climate, with warm to hot summers and mild winters.

With the alpine and Nordic events held at the nearby ski resort of Roza Khutor in Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi hosted the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014, as well as the Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix from 2014 until at least 2020.It will also be one of the host cities for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Tours to Russia: Grand prix Sochi

Tours to Russia: Grand prix Sochi

The Russian Grand Prix (Russian: Гран-при России) is an annual auto race held at Sochi Autodrom—a street circuit built around Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia, as part of the Formula One World Championship.

The race was first held briefly in the 1910s in St. Petersburg; while plans were made to host a Formula One event in Moscow for the 1983 season as the Grand Prix of the Soviet Union, these plans fell through. In 2010, it was officially announced that the Russian city of Sochi, who was also preparing to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, would host a new event on the F1 schedule beginning in the 2014 Formula One season under a seven year deal.

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Accommodation during Grand Prix

Schedule of Grand Prix