Kia Forum

About Kia Forum

Kia Forum is recorded as an NBA, NHL and WNBA arena in Inglewood, California. It opened in 1967. It was designed by Charles Luckman. Its recorded capacity is 17,500. Former tenants include Los Angeles Kings (NHL, 1968–1998), Los Angeles Lakers (NBA, 1968–1999) and Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA, 1997–2001). In all, 3 teams from 3 leagues have called it home. On our ranked lists it ranks 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names and 30th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams. It has also been known as The Forum (1967–1987, 2004–2013), Great Western Forum (1988–2002) and The Forum presented by Chase (2014–2021).

Appears in

• 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 30th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams
• 7th for most name changes among 29 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 7th longest single tenancy (31 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 7th for most name changes among 26 hockey arenas with 3 or more names
• 17th longest single tenancy (30 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 6th for most name changes among 24 NHL arenas with 3 or more names
• 3rd for most name changes among 13 WNBA arenas with 3 or more names
• 26th longest single tenancy (4 years) of the 37 longest on record in WNBA 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 34 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, hockey layout.