Fairgrounds Coliseum

About Fairgrounds Coliseum

Fairgrounds Coliseum is a former name of Corteva Coliseum, used 2012–2013. Corteva Coliseum is recorded as an NBA arena in Indianapolis, Indiana. It opened in 1939. Its recorded capacity is 6,800 in its basketball layout. Its only tenant was Indiana Pacers (NBA, 1968–1973). On our ranked lists it ranks 5th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names. It has also been known as Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum (1939–1990), Pepsi Coliseum (1991–2011) and Indiana Farmers Coliseum (2014–2024).

Appears in

• 5th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 2nd for most name changes among 29 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 98th longest single tenancy (5 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas

Venue Information

Location 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.

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): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point).
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, Capacity, hockey layout.