Scotiabank Arena

Home of the Toronto Raptors and the Toronto Maple Leafs

Toronto, ON

Still to visit

Teams

Toronto Raptors
NBA · basketball
1999–present
Toronto Maple Leafs
NHL · hockey
1999–present

Also known as Air Canada Centre · ACC

Stadium facts

Capacity: 19,800; Basketball, or 20,511 with standing room. Hockey is 18,819, or 20,270 with standing room.Source for capacity
Opened: February 19, 1999; Reconstruction groundbreaking was March 12, 1997, inside the former Toronto Postal Delivery Building. That older name was not a sports name for this arena.Source for opened
Cost: C$265 million; Infobox figure. A history passage says the arena opened at a cost of $288 million.Source for cost

Names and sponsors

Air Canada Centre
1999–2018
Often shortened to ACC.
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Scotiabank Arena
2018–present
No dollar terms for the naming deal were taken from the page.
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Timeline

1999
1999
1999
2000
2004
2016
2024
2024

February 19, 1999

Opens as Air Canada Centre

The arena opened on February 19, 1999, as Air Canada Centre. The Leafs played the next night and the Raptors the night after that. The page also lists an opening concert by The Tragically Hip on February 22.

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