General Information
1 Arena Plaza
Louisville, KY 40202
Game Day Information
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University of Louisville basketball fans have been treated to arguably the finest home court in the nation since 2010-11 season when Cardinal teams moved into the sparkling KFC Yum! Center, located on the banks of the Ohio River in downtown Louisville.
The 22,000-seat multi-purpose arena is truly a state-of-the-art facility, which will rival any, including those in which a professional franchise is the primary tenant. Built at a cost of $238 million, the arena features the latest in technological advancements - including Wi-Fi within the arena bowl for patrons - and provides a superb experience for fans to enjoy.
UofL’s men’s and women’s teams have separate permanent locker rooms at the KFC Yum! Center, including expansive space for its coaching staffs, equipment, training room and a lounge area for each team. There are five additional team locker rooms, two officials locker rooms, five star dressing rooms, a full-function media work room and a full-sized basketball practice court on the event level. An interior truck staging area can accommodate three television production trucks and a nearby area includes four loading docks.
The seven levels of the arena (including the upper catwalk) include a collective 721,762 square feet, or roughly the area of 13 football fields. The 22,000 seats - split about evenly between the upper and lower arena - include 71 luxury suites, 62 four- or six-seat premium boxes, over 2,000 sidecourt club seats and four party suites with a seating capacity of 32 each. Centerplate is the concessionaire for the facility, which has 27 permanent stands, 32 portable locations, two fixed novelty stands and 234 total points of sale.
After passing through the one-and-a-half acre landscaped entry plaza that features a basketball-themed fountain, entering fans can visit the 2,500-square foot UofL adidas store; the 3,000-square foot UofL Hall of Honor, which features former Cardinal greats; or head to their seats using one of the eight escalators or seven elevators within the building.
Lounge space is abundant within the arena. Four spacious donor rooms are available for Cardinal fans, including three that overlook the Ohio River. The 7,000-square foot main concourse restaurant overlooks the river and a main concourse sports bar has views directly into the arena bowl. Two 4,000-square foot club lounges on the event level, as well as the terrace club and premium box lounges, provide amenities for their respective patrons.
The arena quickly established itself on the entertainment scene, hosting such acts as the Eagles and Katy Perry, while ranking among the top arenas in the nation by Rolling Stones and Pollstar magazines.
The arena has served as the site of the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship in December 2012, several NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament first and second round games, NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament first and second round games in 2012 and 2015, and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament South Regional in 2016, 2019 and 2023.
Additional Features
- Two 4,000 square foot club lounges on event floor level
- Loge lounge on mezzanine level
- Club lounge on mezzanine level
- 2,500 square foot team store
- 7,000 square foot main concourse
- Restaurant overlooking the Ohio River
- Main concourse sports bar with view to the Arena bowl
- 32,000 square feet of meeting rooms (four total; three with river view)
- Practice facility with full-size basketball court on event level. It will be used as necessary for large event media work space
- Press lounge, press work room and press interview room on event level
- Seven elevators, including a freight elevator
- Eight escalators
- Four loading docks and interior truck staging area to accommodate three television production trucks
- 1 ½ acre landscaped entry plaza
Fun Figures About the KFC Yum! Center
- Structural steel placed in the arena weighs 5,975,000 pounds - the same weight as 746 average-size Asian elephants.
- The center-hung scoreboard weighs 40,000 pounds - as much as 11 Ford Explorers.
- There are 130 miles of electrical conduit and 322 miles of electrical wiring installed in the Arena - enough to stretch from Louisville to Chicago.
- There are 9,000 light fixtures in the arena with 17,000 lamps.
- The overall square footage of the arena (721,762) equals approximately 13 football fields.
- Sixty-thousand cubic yards of concrete were placed in the arena, equaling 6,000 concrete trucks - represented by 25 miles of concrete trucks parked bumper to bumper.
- The arena contains 58,655 square feet of exterior glass panels - the glass on the east side of the Arena could provide for approximately 60 houses.
- The length of the arena's catwalk totals ½ mile.
