Meadowlands Arena

About Meadowlands Arena

Meadowlands Arena was an NBA and NHL arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It opened in 1981 and closed in 2015. It was designed by Grad Associates. Its last recorded capacity was 20,049. Tenants included New Jersey Nets (NBA, 1982–2010) and New Jersey Devils (NHL, 1983–2007). On our ranked lists it ranks 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names and 122nd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as Brendan Byrne Arena (1981–1995), Continental Airlines Arena (1996–2006) and Izod Center (2007–2015).

Appears in

• 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 122nd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 7th for most name changes among 29 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 19th shortest-lived of 46 basketball arenas with known opening and closing years
• 15th longest single tenancy (28 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 7th for most name changes among 26 hockey arenas with 3 or more names
• 13th shortest-lived of 40 hockey arenas with known opening and closing years
• 38th longest single tenancy (24 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 18th shortest-lived of 43 NBA arenas with known opening and closing years
• 14th longest single tenancy (28 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA arenas
• 6th for most name changes among 24 NHL arenas with 3 or more names
• 11th 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.

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.