Wells Fargo Center

About Wells Fargo Center

Wells Fargo Center is a former name of Xfinity Mobile Arena, used 2010–2024. Xfinity Mobile Arena is an NBA and NHL arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It opened in 1996. It was designed by Ellerbe Becket. It seats 20,328. Its current tenants are Philadelphia 76ers (NBA) and Philadelphia Flyers (NHL). By capacity it ranks 5th of 30 current NBA venues and 5th of 32 current NHL venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 232nd oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use and 5th for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names. It has also been known as CoreStates Center (1996–1997), First Union Center (1998–2002) and Wachovia Center (2003–2009).

Appears in

• 232nd oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 5th for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names
• 10th oldest of 37 basketball arenas still in use
• 2nd for most name changes among 30 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 12th longest single tenancy (29 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 3rd for most name changes among 27 hockey arenas with 3 or more names
• 20th longest single tenancy (29 years) of the 100 longest on record in hockey 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, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 5 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, concert layout, Capacity, basketball layout.