Lubkivsky: All EuroBasket 2015 arenas must sign agreement with FIBA Europe on holding tournament matches
Kyiv, May 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – EuroBasket 2015 Tournament Director Markiyan Lubkivsky has said that all arenas that want to host matches of the EuroBasket 2015 European Basketball Championship must sign an agreement with FIBA Europe on holding tournament matches.
"One of the prerequisites for the participation of a certain arena in the championship is the signing of an agreement and, at the first stage, of a protocol of intent with the local organizing committee, which was authorized by FIBA Europe to do so, along with the Basketball Federation of Ukraine," he said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.
He said that all of the necessary documents had already been submitted by Kharkiv-Arena Ltd., DeVision, the company that plans to build an arena on Stolychne Highway in Kyiv, Kalmius-Arena Ltd., which is being built in Donetsk by the Donbass hockey club, and soon the local organizing committee expects to get the documents from United Basketball Investments (UBI), which won the right to build multipurpose sports arenas in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv.
"These documents include statutory and registration documents, an agreement on the lease of a land plot or confirmation that the land plot is owned by the company, and a contract for design and estimation work. This gives the opportunity for the signing of agreements to hold championship matches in the arenas that are being built by these companies. These agreements are required to ensure that at the time of the tournament the arena will be available to organizers and that it will be possible to hold championship matches there," Lubkivsky said.