Nationwide Arena

About Nationwide Arena

Nationwide Arena is an NHL arena in Columbus, Ohio. It opened in 2000. It was designed by 360 Architecture. It seats 18,144. Its current tenant is Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL), since 2001. By capacity it ranks 24th of 32 current NHL venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 252nd oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use.

Appears in

• 252nd oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 34th longest single tenancy (25 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 11 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (Public domain): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, concert layout, Capacity, basketball layout, Capacity, hockey layout.