The Lužánky Stadium was the third with an artificial ice surface in present-day Czech Republic

Prague – 75 years ago, on January 19, 1947, the winter stadium at Lužánky was opened in Brno. At that time, it was the third with an artificial ice surface in the current Czech Republic and the fourth in former Czechoslovakia – after the opening of the stadium in Prague on Štvanice in November 1932, the stadium in Bratislava in December 1940, and the stadium in České Budějovice in October 1946. The stadium was closed in 2000 and demolished at the turn of 2008 and 2009.

The most famous era of the stadium, which was covered only from 1964, was in the 1950s and 1960s when the Red Star Brno, now known as Kometa, played its home matches there. The team, which won 11 national championship titles at the stadium, left in 1998. The stadium fell into disrepair and was closed in 2000. Kometa now plays at the Winning Group Arena, formerly Hala Rondo.

A variety of national hockey competitions took place here, mostly friendly matches; in 1959, one of the preliminary groups of the World Championship was even held here. In the 1950s, after the formation of RH Brno, Zbrojovka Brno and Spartak Královo Pole also played their home matches there. Besides hockey, it was also a base for figure skaters, with several dozen representatives emerging from it.

In the off-season, the stadium served as a summer cinema, and various cultural events were also held there (for example, the Beach Boys concerted here in 1969). It was the venue for major basketball events. In the final of the 1964 European Cup Zbrojovka Brno – Real Madrid, 11,000 spectators packed into the sold-out stands, and five years later, the semifinal of the European Cup Zbrojovka – CSKA Moscow took place here. The famous Harlem Globetrotters performed at the stadium twice. A group stage of the 1967 women's basketball World Championship was also held at the winter stadium, and the Zbrojovka Brno volleyball players used it for matches in the European Cup as well.

A modern hockey hall is expected to rise at the site of the original stadium in the future. The first symbolic step towards its construction was two open-air extra-league matches in 2016, in which Kometa faced Plzeň and then Sparta Prague. This match was attended by 21,500 spectators in a provisional arena under the open sky at Lužánky, which was simultaneously a new extra-league record (broken in 2020).