List of Olympic venues in basketball explained

For the Summer Olympics, there are 29 venues that have been or will be used for basketball. The first official venue was outdoors under the auspices of the International Basketball Federation although the game was played indoors.^[1] Being played on tennis courts of clay, the final was held in a heavy rain which turned the courts into mud.^[2] Since those games, the basketball games have been played indoors.

Games	Venue	Other sports hosted at venues for those games	Capacity	Ref.
		Fencing (épée)	832.	^[3]
	Tennis Stadium (final)	None	Not listed.
			Not listed.	^[4]
	Messuhalli (final)		5,500	^[5]
		None	1,250	^[6]
			7,000	^[7]
	Royal Exhibition Building (final)		3,500	^[8]
	Palazzo dello Sport (final)		15,000	^[9]
			Not listed.	^[10]
			4,000 (basketball) 11,300 (diving, swimming)	^[11] ^[12]
			22,370	^[13]
			6,635	^[14]
		None	2,200	^[15]
	Montreal Forum (final)	Boxing (final), gymnastics, handball (final), volleyball (final)	18,000	^[16]
		None	5,500	^[17]
	Indoor Stadium (final)		16,500	^[18]
		None	17,505	^[19]
		Volleyball (final)	12,751	^[20] ^[21]
		None	12,500	^[22]
	Georgia Dome (final)	Gymnastics (artistic), handball (men's final)	34,500 (each side)	^[23] ^[24]
		None	6,500	^[25] ^[26]
	Sydney SuperDome (final)	Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)	21,000	^[27]
	The Dome and Exhibition Complex	Badminton, gymnastics (rhythmic), modern pentathlon (fencing, shooting), volleyball (indoor)	10,000	^[28]
		Handball (final)	15,000	^[29]
	Olympic Indoor Hall (final)	Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)	19,250	^[30]
		None	18,000	^[31]
		Handball (medal round)	12,000	^[32]
	The O2 Arena^[33] (final)	Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)	20,000	^[34]
		None	16,000
	Youth Arena (women's group stage)	Modern pentathlon (fencing)	5,000	^[35]
		None	21,000	^[36]
	Aomi Urban Sports Park (3x3)		7,100
	Accor Arena^[37] (final)	Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)	15,000
		Handball (finals)	26,000
	Place de la Concorde (3x3)		Not listed.
	Intuit Dome^[38]	None	18,000
	Santa Monica State Beach and Venice Beach (3x3)		6,000
		None	12,000
	South Bank Piazza (3x3)	None	4,500

Notes and References

1. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936v2sum.pdf 1936 Summer Olympics official report.
2. Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Basketball: Men". In The Completed Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 400.
3. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936v1sum.pdf 1936 Summer Olympics official report.
4. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/OR1948.pdf 1948 Summer Olympics official report.
5. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf 1952 Summer Olympics official report.
6. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf 1952 Summer Olympics official report.
7. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1956/OR1956.pdf 1956 Summer Olympics official report.
8. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1956/OR1956.pdf 1956 Summer Olympics official report.
9. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1960/OR1960v1.pdf 1960 Summer Olympics official report.
10. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1960/OR1960v1.pdf 1960 Summer Olympics official report.
11. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1964/or1964v1pt1.pdf 1964 Summer Olympics official report.
12. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1964/or1964v1pt1.pdf 1964 Summer Olympics official report.
13. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1968/1968v2pt1.pdf 1968 Summer Olympics official report.
14. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1972/1972s2pt2.pdf 1972 Summer Olympics official report.
15. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1976/1976v2.pdf 1976 Summer Olympics official report.
16. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1976/1976v2.pdf 1976 Summer Olympics official report.
17. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1980/or1980v2pt1.pdf 1980 Summer Olympics official report.
18. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1980/or1980v2pt1.pdf 1980 Summer Olympics official report.
19. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1984/1984v1pt1.pdf 1984 Summer Olympics official report.
20. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1988/1988v1p1.pdf 1988 Summer Olympics official report.
21. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1988/1988v1p2.pdf 1988 Summer Olympics official report.
22. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1992/1992s2.pdf 1992 Summer Olympics official report.
23. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v1.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.
24. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.
25. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v1.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.
26. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.
27. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/2000v1.pdf 2000 Summer Olympics official report.
28. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/2000v1.pdf 2000 Summer Olympics official report.
29. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2004/or2004b.pdf 2004 Summer Olympics official report.
30. http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2004/or2004b.pdf 2004 Summer Olympics official report.
31. Web site: Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium . Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad . 2008-08-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080809120246/http://en.beijing2008.cn/venues/wis/index.shtml . 2008-08-09 .
32. http://www.london2012.com/games/venues/basketball-arena.php London2012.com profile of the Basketball Arena.
33. Because of IOC rules disallowing corporate sponsorship of venue names, The O2 Arena was renamed North Greenwich Arena during the games.
34. http://www.london2012.com/games/venues/north-greenwich-arena.php London2012.com profile of the North Greenwich Arena.
35. https://www.rio2016.com/en/venues/youth-arena Rio2016.com profile of the Youth Arena.
36. Web site: Tokyo 2020 set to save $1 billion as venues moved. March 2, 2015. February 27, 2015. Insidethegames.biz.
37. Because of IOC rules disallowing corporate sponsorship of venue names, the Accor Arena was renamed to Bercy Arena during the games.
38. Because of IOC rules disallowing corporate sponsorship of venue names, the Intuit Dome will be given a yet-to-be-determined name during the games.