On May 11, 2015,
Euroleague Basketball announced that the 2016 Final Four would be played at the
Mercedes-Benz Arena, in
Berlin,
Germany. With a seating capacity of 14,500 people for basketball games, it is home to the
Alba Berlin basketball team, and is used for
ice hockey,
basketball, and
handball games, as well as
concerts. The area surrounding the arena is filled with various entertainment venues, including a cinema, a casino, a hotel, and various bars and restaurants. The arena previously hosted the
2009 Euroleague Final Four. The arena was one of the most prominent elements of the
Mediaspree urban redevelopment project, and it quickly gained emblematic status in the debates surrounding the project's impact. The LED construction grid on the facade of the arena was equipped with more than 300,000 LED clusters on a high, and approximately wide section of the semicircular 105° glass facade, with a total area of more than . Light pixels, consisting of two groups of 19 LEDs (colour palette: 16.7 million RGB colours), were attached to the vertical bracing of the facade. The vertical distances were , and the horizontal distances between the axes were . == Road to the Final Four ==