Coventry’s Skydome is preparing to play host to national basketball when the England team plays a series of matches there later this month.

The arena signed up to be the home of the team and will be in action as the semi final round of the European Championship gets underway.

A website has been launched with information about the teams in the run-up to the matches, which start on 25 November.

There is the chance to win a VIP trip to the match against the Slovak Republic. A limousine ride and courtside seats are on offer in a prize draw at www.basketballengland.org.uk/nationalteams

England travel to Porrentruy in Switzerland on 22 November for the first of the five games.

England’s senior men’s team matches at the Skydome are against the Slovak Republic on 25 November, Latvia on 29 November and Hungary on 27 January.