- Address: 525 West Santa Clara Street, San José
- Country: United States
- Capacity: 17,000
- Opened: 7 September 1993
- Main use: Ice hockey, indoor American football
- Tenants: Bay Area Panthers (indoor American football), San Jose Sharks (ice hockey)
Extra stadium info – SAP Center
The construction of the venue started in 1990 and its construction costs were $162 million. The Bay Area Panthers and the San Jose Sharks both use the arena for home games. The San Jose Sharks play in the National Hockey League, which became the most popular ice hockey league in the world. They reached the championship series of the Stanley Cup in 2016 for the first time in their history. The Sharks lost the championship series against the Pittsburgh Penguins from Pennsylvania. In 2016, the championship series of the NHL consisted of six matches. Two of those six matches ended in a victory for the San Jose Sharks.
