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Within Vinony's link graph, Ricoh Arena is referenced by 1,234 other articles, and connects out to Coventry, EFL Championship and Leicester City Stadium.
The entry is geolocated on the map in COV.
It sits within the topics 2005 establishments in England, 2022 Commonwealth Games venues and Coventry City F.C..
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Former names
- Ricoh Arena (2005–2021), City of Coventry Stadium ( 2012 Summer Olympics ), Coventry Stadium ( 2022 Commonwealth Games )
- Location
- Jimmy Hill Way, Rowleys Green, Coventry , England, CV6 6GE
- Owner
- Coventry City Football Club
- Operator
- ACL (Arena Coventry Ltd.)
- Capacity
- 40,000 (concerts) , 32,609 (football and rugby matches) (Subject to segregation regime)
- Surface
- XtraGrass ( Hybrid grass )
- Scoreboard
- Yes
- Record attendance
- 32,128 (England V Italy, Arnold Clark Cup, 19 February 2023)
- Field size
- 120 m x 68 m
- Public transit
- Coventry Arena
- Construction cost
- £113 million
- Architect
- The Miller Partnership
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stadium
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Coventry
- Owned by
- Frasers Group
- Operator
- Coventry City F.C.
- Sport
- rugby union
- Official website
- www.ricoharena.com
- Image
- Ricoh Arena - geograph.org.uk - 901396.jpg
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- Commons category
- Coventry Building Society Arena
- maximum capacity
- 32609
- occupant
- Wasps RFC
- date of official opening
- 2005-00-00
- inception
- 2005-00-00
- social media followers
- 46941
- native label
- Coventry Building Society Arena
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Encyclopedic overview
The Coventry Building Society Arena (often shortened to the CBS Arena or just simply Coventry Arena, and formerly known as the Ricoh Arena) is a complex in Coventry, West Midlands, England. It includes a 32,609-seater stadium which is currently home to Premier League club Coventry City, along with facilities which include a 6,000 square metres (65,000 sq ft) exhibition hall, a hotel and a casino. The site is also home to Arena Park Shopping Centre, containing one of UK's largest Tesco Extra hypermarkets. Built on the site of the Foleshill gasworks, it is named after its sponsor, Coventry Building Society who entered into a ten-year sponsorship deal in 2021. For the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2022 Commonwealth Games, where stadium naming sponsorship was forbidden, the stadium was respectively known as the City of Coventry Stadium and Coventry Stadium.
Originally built as a replacement for Coventry City's Highfield Road ground, the stadium was initially owned and operated by Arena Coventry Limited (ACL), with Coventry City as tenants. ACL was owned jointly by Coventry City Council and the Alan Edward Higgs Charity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ricoh Arena” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.