Phoenix Suns Arena

About Phoenix Suns Arena

Phoenix Suns Arena is a former name of Mortgage Matchup Center, used 2020. Mortgage Matchup Center is an NBA and WNBA arena in Phoenix, Arizona. It opened in 1992. It was designed by Ellerbe Becket. It seats 19,023. Its current tenants are Phoenix Suns (NBA) and Phoenix Mercury (WNBA). It was formerly home to Phoenix Coyotes (NHL, 1997–2003). In all, 3 teams from 3 leagues have called it home. By capacity it ranks 4th of 15 current WNBA venues and 16th of 30 current NBA venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 209th oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use, 1st for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names and 31st for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams. It has also been known as America West Arena (1992–2005), US Airways Center (2006–2014), Talking Stick Resort Arena (2015–2019) and Footprint Center (2021–2024).

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• 209th oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 1st for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names
• 31st for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams
• 5th oldest of 37 basketball arenas still in use
• 1st for most name changes among 30 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 6th longest single tenancy (33 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 1st for most name changes among 27 hockey arenas with 3 or more names
• 60th longest single tenancy (6 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 1st longest single tenancy (29 years) of the 37 longest on record in WNBA 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.

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.

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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.