ARCO Arena is an
indoor arena located in
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,
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. It is home to the
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's
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.
The
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's
Sacramento MonarchsThe Sacramento Monarchs is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Sacramento, California. The team is one of the WNBA's eight original franchises and was noted early on for standout players Ticha Penicheiro, Ruthie Bolton and Yolanda Griffith.While the Monarchs have been one of...
also play in the arena.
There was another sports venue with that exact same name, which was known as the original ARCO Arena (1985-1988), where the Kings played their home games for three seasons (1985 to 1988), after moving from
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.
ARCO Arena is an
indoor arena located in
Sacramento, CaliforniaSacramento is the capital of the U.S. state of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County. Located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River's confluence in California's expansive Central Valley. With a 2007 estimated population of 460,242, it is the seventh-largest...
,
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is home to the
NBAThe National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league, composed of thirty teams in North America . It is an active member of USA Basketball , which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation as the National Governing Body for basketball in the United States...
's
Sacramento KingsThe Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California, United States. The Kings are members of the National Basketball Association .-Rochester:...
.
Details
The
WNBAThe Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of thirteen teams. The league was founded in 1996 as the women's counterpart to the NBA...
's
Sacramento MonarchsThe Sacramento Monarchs is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Sacramento, California. The team is one of the WNBA's eight original franchises and was noted early on for standout players Ticha Penicheiro, Ruthie Bolton and Yolanda Griffith.While the Monarchs have been one of...
also play in the arena.
There was another sports venue with that exact same name, which was known as the original ARCO Arena (1985-1988), where the Kings played their home games for three seasons (1985 to 1988), after moving from
Kansas CityKansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is one of two county seats of Jackson County, the other being Independence, just to the city's east...
. It had a capacity of 10,333 seats.
ARCO Arena is located in a once isolated area on the expanding northern outskirts of the city. It was constructed at a cost of just $40 million, the lowest of any venue in the NBA. It is the smallest arena in the NBA by size and second smallest by seating capacity (17,317). Only
Orlando'sOrlando is a major city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan region...
Amway Arena (17,248) has a smaller seating capacity for NBA basketball. In 2006, there was a campaign to build a new $600 million facility in downtown Sacramento, which was to be funded by a quarter cent sales tax increase over 15 years; voters overwhelmingly rejected ballot measures Q and R, leading to the NBA publicly calling for a new arena to be built at another well-known Sacramento facility,
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, the site of California's
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.
The namesake sponsor of the arena, energy company
ARCOARCO is an oil company which is, since 2000, a subsidiary of UK-based BP and is officially known as BP West Coast Products LLC. ARCO that was formed by the merger of East Coast-based Atlantic Refining and California-based Richfield Petroleum in 1966...
, has had corporate sponsorship since the arena's inception as well as the original ARCO Arena. On March 19, 2007, the Maloof brothers announced a multi-year agreement extending the naming rights of ARCO Arena.
ARCO Arena set a Guinness World Record for loudest sports roar by reaching over 130 decibels on November 8, 2006 during a Kings game against the
Detroit PistonsThe Detroit Pistons is a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills.-From Fort Wayne to Detroit:...
. Also, there is an instrumental song called "Arco Arena" on the album
Comfort EagleComfort Eagle is the fourth studio album by Cake, an alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. It was released in 2001 , and contains eleven songs...
by Sacramento band
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. The band also released a version of the song with lyrics as a B-Side.
ARCO Arena has hosted several state High School Basketball championship games (1992, 1996, and 1998–2009)
ARCO Arena hosts many graduation celebrations for local high schools.
ARCO Arena has hosted the WWE Pay-Per-View event WWE The Bash on June 28th, as well has hosted the 1993 Royal Rumble, and Judgment Day 2001.
Seating
The arena
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17,317 for
basketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a
10 foot high hoop under organized rules...
, and has 30 luxury suites and 412 club seats. The arena has been noted for its loud character and capacity crowds, which can make it a tough environment for visiting teams.
Baseball Stadium
There is an unfinished baseball stadium on the backside of the arena. The stadium was never finished because the Sacramento Sports Association ran out of money during construction in 1989. The completion of
Raley FieldRaley Field is the home of the Sacramento River Cats minor league baseball team in the Pacific Coast League. Raley Field was built on the site of old warehouses and railyards, in West Sacramento, California, USA across the Sacramento River from the California State Capitol.The privately financed...
has stopped any possibility of this stadium being completed.
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