List of Olympic venues in basketball

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.
1936 Berlin	Tennis Courts	Fencing (épée)	832.	[3]
	Tennis Stadium (final)	None	Not listed.	[3]
1948 London	Harringay Arena	Wrestling	Not listed.	[4]
1952 Helsinki	Messuhalli (final)	Boxing, gymnastics, weightlifting, wrestling	5,500	[5]
	Tennis Palace	None	1,250	[6]
1956 Melbourne	West Melbourne Stadium	Boxing, gymnastics	7,000	[7]
	Royal Exhibition Building (final)	Modern pentathlon (fencing), weightlifting, wrestling	3,500	[8]
1960 Rome	Palazzo dello Sport (final)	Boxing	15,000	[9]
	Palazzetto dello sport	Weightlifting	Not listed.	[10]
1964 Tokyo	National Gymnasium	Diving, modern pentathlon (swimming), swimming	4,000 (basketball) 11,300 (diving, swimming)	[11][12]
1968 Mexico City	Juan Escutia Sports Palace	Volleyball	22,370	[13]
1972 Munich	Basketballhalle	Judo	6,635	[14]
1976 Montreal	Centre Étienne Desmarteau	None	2,200	[15]
	Montreal Forum (finals)	Boxing (final), gymnastics, handball (final), volleyball (final)	18,000	[16]
1980 Moscow	CSKA Palace of Sports	None	5,500	[17]
	Indoor Stadium (finals)	Boxing	16,500	[18]
1984 Los Angeles	The Forum	None	17,505	[19]
1988 Seoul	Jamsil Gymnasium	Volleyball (final)	12,751	[20][21]
1992 Barcelona	Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona	None	12,500	[22]
1996 Atlanta	Georgia Dome (finals)	Gymnastics (artistic), handball (men's final)	34,500 (each side)	[23][24]
	Morehouse College Gymnasium	None	6,500	[25][26]
2000 Sydney	Sydney SuperDome (finals)	Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)	21,000	[27]
	The Dome and Exhibition Complex	Badminton, gymnastics (rhythmic), modern pentathlon (fencing, shooting), volleyball (indoor)	10,000	[28]
2004 Athens	Helliniko Indoor Arena	Handball (final)	15,000	[29]
	Olympic Indoor Hall (finals)	Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)	19,250	[30]
2008 Beijing	Wukesong Arena	None	18,000	[31]
2012 London	Basketball Arena	Handball (medal round)	12,000	[32]
	The O2 Arena[33] (final)	Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)	20,000	[34]
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Carioca Arena 1	None	16,000	[35]
	Youth Arena (women's group stage)	Modern pentathlon (fencing)	5,000	[36]
2020 Tokyo	Saitama Super Arena	None	21,000	[37]
	Aomi Urban Sports Park (3x3)	Sport climbing	7,100
2024 Paris	Accor Arena[38] (finals)	Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)	15,000
	Stade Pierre-Mauroy	Handball (finals)	26,000
	Place de la Concorde (3x3)	Breaking, cycling (BMX freestyle), skateboarding	Not listed.
2028 Los Angeles	Intuit Dome[39]	None	18,000
	Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area (3x3)	Cycling (BMX racing/freestyle), modern pentathlon, skateboarding	Not listed.
2032 Brisbane	Brisbane Entertainment Centre (finals)	None	11,000
	Gold Coast Arena	None	10,000
	Cairns Convention Centre	None	5,300
	South Bank Piazza (3x3)	None	4,500