Venue: Olympic Athletic Center of Athens

The "home" of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament

The Olympic Athletic Center of Athens , also known as OAKA, is one of the most complete European athletic complexes.

The Main Olympic Stadium was designed in 1979 and inaugurated in 1982 at the 13th European Athletics Championship.

The following years a number of other sport facilities surrounded the Main Olympic Stadium: the Olympic Velodrome (inaugurated in 1991), the Olympic Aquatics Center (1991), the Olympic Indoor Sports Center (1995), the Olympic Tennis Center (2004), as well as other supplementary sport facilities.

The Olympic Athletic Center of Athens hosted the Mediterranean Games in 1991, the World Championship in Athletics in 1997 as well as other important athletic and cultural events, the most significant of which remains the Athens Olympic Games in 2004.

Facts and Figures

Year of construction: 1995
Owned by: General Secretary Athletism
Address: Kifisias 37- Olympic Stadium of Athens
Phone: 0030-210- 6834060-61, Fax: 210 6834021, e-mail: info@oaka.com.gr
Distance to Arena:
From the centre of Athens: 13km-20min.
From the airport «Åletherios Venizelos»-15km-20 min.

Indoor Basketball Arena
The Indoor Basketball Arena is constructed in six levels and can be evacuated in 10 minutes.

Facts and figures
40X70m competition area
25.5X44.5m central court floor
Capacity: 18,500 spectator seats (of which 2,000 are folding) and 300 media seats
4 electronic boards:
2 scoreboards
1 statistics board
1 audiovisual reproduction board
54 spectator gates, 2 team entrances, 1 VIP entrance and 1 media entrance
2 19X9m indoor gyms
Medical center (operational at games time)
Doping control room
12 dressing rooms with shower, toilet and massage areas
2 saunas
Press center (500m2 main room, 100m2 press conference room, 2 offices)
18 snack bars for spectators, 1 for VIP and 1 for media
Closed circuit TV
6 dark rooms
All gates of the middle landing are accessible
Parking lot for 750 spectator vehicles and 40 VIP vehicles

Highlight Moments
1995 FIBA European Championship for Men, 1995 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men, 1998 FIBA World Championship for Men, 2007
Euroleague Final Four.