The Ricoh Arena (commonly known as The Ricoh), home to
Coventry City F.C., is a stadium complex situated in the Rowleys Green district of the
city of
Coventry,
England containing a 32,609 seater
football stadium, a 6,000 square-metre
exhibition hall, a
hotel, a leisure club, and a
casino. The site is also home to Arena Park Shopping Centre containing one of the largest
Tesco Extra hypermarkets. The site was previously home to the Foleshill
gasworks. It is named after its sponsor, Japanese company
Ricoh who paid £10million deal for the naming rights over ten years.
[3] For the
2012 Summer Olympic Games and the
2015 Rugby World Cup, where stadium naming sponsorship is forbidden, the stadium will be known as the City of Coventry Stadium.
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The arena was opened officially by
Dame Kelly Holmes and Sports Minister
Richard Caborn on 24 February 2007. This was after the arena had been open for a year which included hosting a sell out England under 21 football match against Germany and a full season of Coventry City football matches.
the above is a straight copy from Wikipedia, seems we are stuck with the Ricoh until 2017, still 5 years gives us long enough to sort out a preper name for the stadium,
i'm sticking with 2 of my original suggestions:
The Elephant & Castle
The Phoenix Arena