Paycom Center

About Paycom Center

Paycom Center is an NBA arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It opened in 2002. It was designed by Leidos. It seats 18,203. Its current tenant is Oklahoma City Thunder (NBA), since 2009. By capacity it ranks 22nd of 30 current NBA venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 269th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use and 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names. It has also been known as Ford Center (2002–2009), Oklahoma City Arena (2010) and Chesapeake Energy Arena (2011–2020).

Appears in

• 269th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 22nd oldest of 37 basketball arenas still in use
• 7th for most name changes among 29 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 54th longest single tenancy (17 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 46th longest single tenancy (17 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA 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 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, basketball layout, Capacity, concert layout, Capacity, hockey layout.