FLA Live Arena

About FLA Live Arena

FLA Live Arena is a former name of Amerant Bank Arena, used 2021–2022. Amerant Bank Arena is an NHL arena in Sunrise, Florida. It opened in 1998. It was designed by Ellerbe Becket. It seats 20,737. Its current tenant is Florida Panthers (NHL), since 1999. By capacity it ranks 3rd of 32 current NHL venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 234th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use and 1st for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names. It has also been known as National Car Rental Center (1998–2001), Office Depot Center (2002–2004), BankAtlantic Center (2005–2011) and BB&T Center (2012–2020).

Appears in

• 234th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 1st for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 1st for most name changes among 26 hockey arenas with 3 or more names
• 27th longest single tenancy (27 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey 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.

NHL records count overtime and shootout losses as losses.

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 13 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, concert layout, Capacity, basketball layout, Capacity, hockey layout.