Arena
In the beginning, each club has a small arena with a capacity of 400 spectators and all of the stands are at the first level, without seats. The arena has 8 sectors marked A through H. You can build a different type of stand in each sector with different accessories. The table below shows the overview of the types of stands and their capacities and available accessories:
| Level |
Type of stand |
Min capacity |
Max capacity |
Snack bar |
Restaurant |
Skybox |
Press center |
Fan shop |
| 1 |
Small stand-up |
50 |
100 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 2 |
Medium stand-up |
100 |
200 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 3 |
Large stand-up |
150 |
250 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| 4 |
Small with seats |
200 |
300 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| 5 |
Medium with seats |
250 |
450 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| 6 |
Large with seats |
300 |
600 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| 7 |
Single-floor multi-purpose |
400 |
800 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
| 8 |
Double-floor multi-purpose |
600 |
1,500 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
| 9 |
Triple-floor multi-purpose |
1,000 |
2,500 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
The better the stand, the bigger attendance you can expect. Of course, the prices go up with the higher levels and the construction time increases, as you can see on the next table:
| Type of stand |
Min capacity |
Max capacity |
Min price |
Max price |
Construction
(Days) |
Capacity upgrade
(Days) |
Min/Max daily expenses |
| Small stand-up |
50 |
100 |
- |
35,000 |
- |
1 |
170/240 |
| Medium stand-up |
100 |
200 |
270,000 |
420,000 |
5 |
3 |
540/840 |
| Large stand-up |
150 |
250 |
1,100,000 |
1,700,000 |
10 |
5 |
2,200/3,400 |
| Small with seats |
200 |
300 |
3,500,000 |
5,000,000 |
25 |
13 |
7,000/10,000 |
| Medium with seats |
250 |
450 |
6,000,000 |
10,000,000 |
40 |
20 |
12,000/20,000 |
| Large with seats |
300 |
600 |
10,500,000 |
18,000,000 |
55 |
28 |
21,000/36,000 |
| Single-floor multi-purpose |
400 |
800 |
17,400,000 |
27,800,000 |
70 |
35 |
34,800/55,600 |
| Double-floor multi-purpose |
600 |
1,500 |
24,800,000 |
50,000,000 |
85 |
43 |
49,600/100,000 |
| Triple-floor multi-purpose |
1,000 |
2,500 |
38,000,000 |
81,500,000 |
100 |
50 |
76,000/163,000 |
If you have a certain type of a stand and its capacity can still be increased, the time needed to increase the capacity, is half the time needed to build this type of a stand.
You can build various accessories on each type of stand. Snack bars and restaurants draw more people to the arena. Fan shops increase the incomes from the souvenir sale. Skyboxes can be leased and they bring extra income to the club. Press centers allow journalists to make reports from the games, which increases the motivation of players and therefore their performance. Some types of accessories can only be built on the more expensive stands. If you want to build a better type of stand, you first need to demolish all the accessories of the current stand and then the stand itself. After demolition, you will get a refund of 50% of the value of the stand and its accessories.
Only then you will be able to build a new stand. Warning! During the construction works, this sector will have zero attendance.
Other arena upgrades include car park, scoreboard, lighting and sound and the ice quality can also be improved. All of these improvements help increase the attendance.
Every level of car park represents 500 parking spots. You can build a maximum of 2,500 parking spots.
Accessory construction duration in days:
| Arena upgrades |
Construction duration |
| Snack bar |
15 |
| Fan shop |
15 |
| Press center |
15 |
| Restaurant |
30 |
| Skybox |
30 |
| Car park |
15 |
| Scoreboard |
30 |
| Ice quality |
30 |
| Lighting and sound |
30 |
The prices of accessories increase with the level of stand where they are built:
| Level of stand |
Price |
Daily expenses |
| 1 |
5,000 |
10 |
| 2 |
15,000 |
30 |
| 3 |
75,000 |
150 |
| 4 |
210,000 |
420 |
| 5 |
425,000 |
850 |
| 6 |
765,000 |
1,530 |
| 7 |
1,260,000 |
2,520 |
| 8 |
1,680,000 |
3,360 |
| 9 |
2,857,500 |
5,715 |
Prices of arena upgrades:
| Level |
Car park |
Scoreboard |
Ice quality |
Lighting and sound |
| 1 |
2,000,000 |
4,000,000 |
4,000,000 |
4,000,000 |
| 2 |
4,000,000 |
8,000,000 |
8,000,000 |
8,000,000 |
| 3 |
6,000,000 |
12,000,000 |
12,000,000 |
12,000,000 |
| 4 |
8,000,000 |
16,000,000 |
16,000,000 |
16,000,000 |
| 5 |
10,000,000 |
20,000,000 |
20,000,000 |
20,000,000 |
Daily expenses on the maintenance of arena upgrades:
| Level |
Car park |
Scoreboard |
Ice quality |
Lighting and sound |
| 1 |
4,000 |
8,000 |
8,000 |
8,000 |
| 2 |
8,000 |
16,000 |
16,000 |
16,000 |
| 3 |
12,000 |
24,000 |
24,000 |
24,000 |
| 4 |
16,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
32,000 |
| 5 |
20,000 |
40,000 |
40,000 |
40,000 |
Attendance
The following factors influence the attendance:
- Arena capacity
- Level of stands
- Stand accessories (mainly refreshments)
- Level of scoreboard
- Ice quality
- Level of lighting and sound
- Number of parking spots
- Position of your team in the league standings
- Position of the opponent in the league standings
- League level
- Overall team rating
- Popularity of your and opponent's players
- Derby game (game between teams from the same region)
If you play a league game (or part of it) on very low or low game importance and you don't win, the fans will remember that your team's effort was weak and they might not be willing to attend your next home league game. The attendance drop will be bigger if you play on very low and smaller if you play on low importance. Also the portion of the game that you play on low or very low will be taken into account. If you win, the importance that you used will have no effect on the attendance of the following game. Also, if your team is much weaker than the opponent, your fans will forgive you even if you play on very low and lose.
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