Avicii Arena (Globen)

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Avicii Arena, long known as Globen (Swedish for "the Globe"), is a giant white ball-shaped indoor arena in the Johanneshov district of Stockholm, Sweden. It is 110 metres across and 65 metres high on the inside, and it took two and a half years to build. It opened on 19 February 1989. When the Las Vegas Sphere opened in 2023, it became the second largest spherical building on Earth.

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At a glance

Country: Sweden
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Built: 1989
Height: 85 m

Quick answers

Where is Avicii Arena (Globen)?

Avicii Arena (Globen) is in Stockholm, Sweden.

When was Avicii Arena (Globen) built?

Avicii Arena (Globen) was built in 1989.

How tall is Avicii Arena (Globen)?

Avicii Arena (Globen) is about 85 m tall.

A 110 m wide white spherical indoor arena, known for the SkyView gondolas that ride up its outer wall.

About 16,000 people can sit inside for a show or concert, and 13,850 for an ice hockey game. Besides the hockey, it holds big music contests, sports championships and video-game tournaments. Globen is also a planet-sized joke: it stands for the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the largest scale model of the Solar System in the world, where the other planets are placed far away across the country.

A building that is a Sun

The Sweden Solar System shrinks the real Solar System down so it fits on a map of the country. The arena is the Sun, and the planets are small models placed at matching distances from it. It is a playful way to feel how far apart the planets really are.

Names and events

The arena opened as the Stockholm Globe Arena. In 2009 the phone company Ericsson bought the naming rights, so it became the Ericsson Globe. In 2021 it was renamed Avicii Arena after the Swedish music star Avicii, who died in 2018. Its first big events included the 1989 Ice Hockey World Championships. It later hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2000 and 2016, and in 2021 it held the World Figure Skating Championships and a Counter-Strike tournament.

Rebuilt and rising: SkyView

Since February 2010, an outdoor inclined lift called SkyView has carried visitors up the south side of the globe in two ball-shaped glass gondolas, each holding up to 12 people. In 2009 an artist also set a tiny red cottage on top of the roof for a few months. A 92 million dollar modernisation added a retractable acoustic ceiling and new seating, and the arena reopened in February 2025.

Fun facts

It stands for the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the largest scale model of the Solar System in the world.
The arena is 110 metres wide and 65 metres high inside, and its volume is about 605,000 cubic metres.
It is the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the biggest scale model of our Solar System in the world.
In 2009 an artist placed a small Falu-red cottage on top of the dome for a few months.
It hosted the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 2000 and in 2016.