Washington State Coliseum

About Washington State Coliseum

Washington State Coliseum is a former name of Climate Pledge Arena, used 1962–1963. Climate Pledge Arena is an NHL and WNBA arena in Seattle, Washington. It opened in 1962. It was designed by Paul Thiry. It seats 18,000. Its current tenants are Seattle Storm (WNBA) and Seattle Kraken (NHL). It was formerly home to Seattle SuperSonics (NBA, 1968–1977, 1986–1993, 1996–2008). In all, 3 teams from 3 leagues have called it home. By capacity it ranks 7th of 15 current WNBA venues and 25th of 32 current NHL venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 105th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use, 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names and 30th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams. It has also been known as Seattle Center Coliseum (1964–1994) and KeyArena (1995–2017).

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• 105th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 19th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 30th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams
• 1st oldest of 37 basketball arenas still in use
• 7th for most name changes among 29 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 22nd longest single tenancy (26 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 7th for most name changes among 26 hockey arenas with 3 or more names
• 65th longest single tenancy (4 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey arenas
• 53rd longest single tenancy (12 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA arenas
• 6th for most name changes among 24 NHL arenas with 3 or more names
• 3rd for most name changes among 13 WNBA arenas with 3 or more names
• 3rd longest single tenancy (26 years) of the 37 longest on record in WNBA 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 38 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.