Coventry Building Society Arena
The Coventry Building Society Arena is a complex in Coventry, England. It includes a 32,609-seater stadium which is currently home to football team, Championship club Coventry City F.C. 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, where stadium naming sponsorship was forbidden, the stadium was known as the City of Coventry Stadium.
Coventry Building Society Arena
The Coventry Building Society Arena
Jimmy Hill (1928–2015) Statue just outside the entrance to the Lloyds Pharmacy Stand
The 2012 Olympic Football competition at the Coventry Building Society Arena
Coventry City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Coventry, England. The team currently play in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system whilst its home pitch is the Coventry Building Society Arena.
Coventry City played at Highfield Road between 1899 and 2005
Coventry Building Society Arena
Rent disputes caused Coventry City to play the 2013–14 season at Sixfields Stadium in Northampton
Tim Fisher was chairman of Coventry City from 2014 until 2023