Rebuilt in 2018 and owned by ten Erguël communes, the hall began as a 1960 cooperative rink
For the latest skating dates, check the rink’s official information.
The Clientis Arena in Saint-Imier, at Beauregard 2 on the banks of the Suze, began as the Patinoire d'Erguël. HC Saint-Imier, founded in 1936, first skated on natural ice in front of the old gymnastics halls before moving to the Beauregard site, and the cooperative that built the artificial rink was entered in the commercial register on 2 October 1959.
The artificial rink was inaugurated on Saturday 12 November 1960, and the club played its first match on it the next day, a 4-1 Swiss Cup defeat to Yverdon. A limited company, Erguël-Sports SA, was entered in the commercial register on 12 December 2016, and its first board was made up of the mayors of the ten communes. The season ended on 18 March 2018, work began the next Monday and the rink was renamed the Clientis Arena.
Today the hall takes 750 spectators for sport and 1,950 for shows, with six changing rooms with showers and one without for public skating.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Entry is CHF 5 for adults, CHF 4 for students and AVS pensioners and CHF 3 for children aged 6 to 16 from outside the Erguël communes; resident children aged 6 to 16 skate free. The arena says the official occupancy plan is what counts.
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Skates can be hired for CHF 5 (adults) and CHF 3 (children).
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A source check records what the rink published on that date. Session-specific booking details take precedence.