A tour of the world’s most iconic stadiums and arenas. ThrillZing covers the history, capacity, signature moments, and fan experience of the venues where championship games and unforgettable events happen.
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/ August 10, 2026
Canada Life Centre is the downtown Winnipeg arena that has served as the beating heart of the city’s hockey scene since it opened as the MTS Centre on November 16, 2004. Built for roughly C$133.5 million on the former site of the Eaton’s department store,
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/ August 10, 2026
KeyBank Center is a multipurpose arena in downtown Buffalo, New York, that has served as the home rink of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres since it opened on September 21, 1996. Built to replace the aging Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, the arena sits at 1 Seymour H.
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/ August 9, 2026
Nationwide Arena opened on September 9, 2000, in downtown Columbus, Ohio, becoming the home of the expansion Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League. Built on the former site of the Ohio Penitentiary’s parking lot, the arena was designed by Heinlein Schrock Stearns and
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/ August 8, 2026
Prudential Center, nicknamed “The Rock” after its naming sponsor’s corporate logo, opened in downtown Newark, New Jersey on October 25, 2007. It was the first major league sports venue built in the New York metropolitan area since 1981, and it has served as the home
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/ August 8, 2026
UBS Arena is a modern multipurpose arena in Elmont, New York, built on the grounds of the historic Belmont Park thoroughbred racetrack just outside New York City. It opened on November 20, 2021, giving the New York Islanders their first purpose-built home arena since the
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/ August 8, 2026
PNC Arena opened on October 29, 1999 in Raleigh, North Carolina, as home to the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes and NC State Wolfpack men’s basketball. Built at a cost of about $158 million, the venue has carried several corporate names over its history, opening as the
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/ August 7, 2026
Kia Center is the downtown Orlando arena that has served as the home court of the NBA’s Orlando Magic since it opened in October 2010. Built as part of a broader effort to revitalize downtown Orlando, the venue replaced the aging Amway Arena (formerly the
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/ August 6, 2026
Frost Bank Center is the home arena of the San Antonio Spurs, standing on the city’s east side next to Freeman Coliseum. It opened on October 18, 2002, as the SBC Center, was renamed AT&T Center in 2006 after SBC’s rebrand, and took on its
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/ August 6, 2026
Footprint Center was the name carried by downtown Phoenix’s NBA and WNBA arena from 2021 to 2025, during a naming-rights deal with materials science company Footprint. The building itself dates back much further: it opened on June 6, 1992, as America West Arena, part of
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/ August 5, 2026
Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium has served as the home of Oklahoma Sooners football in Norman, Oklahoma since it opened on October 20, 1923. Built originally for about $293,000 and dedicated as a memorial to Oklahomans who died in World War I, the stadium’s playing
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/ August 4, 2026
Boone Pickens Stadium has served as the home of Oklahoma State University football in Stillwater, Oklahoma, since the site first opened as Lewis Field on October 2, 1920. The venue was renamed in 2003 to honor OSU alumnus and oil executive T. Boone Pickens, whose
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/ August 4, 2026
Husky Stadium has been the home of Washington Huskies football on the University of Washington campus in Seattle since it opened on November 27, 1920. Built into a hillside overlooking Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains, the stadium’s open east end and U-shaped bowl give
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/ August 3, 2026
Doak Campbell Stadium, officially Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium, has been the home of Florida State Seminoles football in Tallahassee, Florida since it opened on October 7, 1950. Named for Doak S. Campbell, the university’s first president, the stadium later added Bobby
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/ August 3, 2026
Autzen Stadium is the home football venue of the Oregon Ducks, sitting along the Willamette River just north of the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. Opened in 1967, it has grown from a modest 41,000-seat bowl into a roughly 54,000-seat facility renowned as one
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/ August 2, 2026
Williams-Brice Stadium is the home football venue of the South Carolina Gamecocks, sitting on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia, South Carolina. The stadium’s roots trace back to 1934, when it opened as Columbia Municipal Stadium, a modest facility built with help from the Works Progress
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/ August 2, 2026
Jordan–Hare Stadium has served as the home field of the Auburn Tigers football team on the Auburn University campus in Auburn, Alabama, since it opened on November 9, 1939. Originally called Auburn Stadium and later Cliff Hare Stadium, the venue took its current name in
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/ August 1, 2026
Olympiastadion Berlin opened on August 1, 1936, as the centerpiece of that year’s Summer Olympics, a monumental stone-clad bowl designed by architect Werner March under the Nazi regime’s grand urban planning vision. Nearly nine decades later, the stadium still stands in the Westend district of
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/ August 1, 2026
Metropolitano Stadium, currently known as Riyadh Air Metropolitano under its sponsorship deal, is the home ground of Atlético Madrid in the Rosas neighborhood of the San Blas-Canillejas district. The venue traces its roots to 1994, when it opened as a municipal athletics stadium nicknamed ‘La
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/ July 31, 2026
Estádio da Luz is the home stadium of S.L. Benfica in Lisbon, Portugal, opened on October 25, 2003 to replace the beloved original stadium of the same name that stood on the site from 1954. Built for UEFA Euro 2004, the arena quickly became one
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/ July 31, 2026
Parc des Princes is the football stadium in Paris’s 16th arrondissement that Paris Saint-Germain has called home since 1974, a tight, steeply-raked bowl that has hosted everything from Tour de France finishes to the 1938 World Cup’s opening match and a European Championship final. Whether
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