Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum

About Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum is recorded as an NBA and WHA arena in Phoenix, Arizona. It opened in 1965. It was designed by Lescher & Mahoney. Its recorded capacity is 14,870. Former tenants include Phoenix Suns (NBA, 1969–1992) and Phoenix Roadrunners (WHA, 1975–1977).

Appears in

• 38th longest single tenancy (23 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 76th longest single tenancy (2 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 32nd longest single tenancy (23 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA arenas
• 3rd longest single tenancy (2 years) of the 15 longest on record in WHA arenas

Venue Information

Address derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Address.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (Public domain): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, basketball layout, Capacity, hockey layout.