Mellon Arena

About Mellon Arena

Mellon Arena was an ABA and NHL arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It opened in 1961 and closed in 2011. Its last recorded capacity was 17,537 in its basketball layout. Tenants included Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL, 1968–2010), Pittsburgh Pipers (ABA, 1968) and Pittsburgh Condors (ABA, 1970–1972). In all, 3 teams from 2 leagues have called it home. On our ranked lists it ranks 165th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as Pittsburgh Civic Arena (1961–1998).

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• 165th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 20th shortest-lived of 40 hockey arenas with known opening and closing years
• 7th longest single tenancy (42 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 27th shortest-lived of 46 basketball arenas with known opening and closing years
• 17th shortest-lived of 34 NHL arenas with known opening and closing years
• 8th shortest-lived of 11 ABA arenas with known opening and closing years
• 7th longest single tenancy (2 years) of the 14 longest on record in ABA 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.

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, general layout, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (Public domain): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, Capacity, hockey layout.