Joe Louis Arena

About Joe Louis Arena

Joe Louis Arena was an NHL arena in Detroit, Michigan. It opened in 1979 and closed in 2019. It was designed by SmithGroup. Its last recorded capacity was 19,275. Its only tenant was Detroit Red Wings (NHL, 1980–2017). On our ranked lists it ranks 140th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 140th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 14th shortest-lived of 40 hockey arenas with known opening and closing years
• 12th longest single tenancy (37 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 12th shortest-lived of 34 NHL arenas with known opening and closing years

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.

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): Location.
• 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 (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, concert layout, Capacity, basketball layout.