Scotia Place is Calgary's future event centre and planned future home of the Calgary Flames. The City of Calgary describes the project as opening in fall 2027, and current reporting places the planned hockey capacity at roughly 18,400. Stadiums.ca should treat this as a living project page with construction updates, design notes and Saddledome replacement context.

Scotia Place is under construction and has not opened. It is the $1.22-billion replacement for the Saddledome, with a scheduled 2027 opening as the new home of the Calgary Flames, anchoring the Culture + Entertainment District in Calgary's Rivers District. Capacity, seating and amenity details below are announced plans, not measured facts.

Planned 18,400 hockey capacity; verify final opening configuration

• Hockey18,400

Do not mark as opened; final capacity may be refined before opening.

• Future Calgary event centre, not an opened arena yet.
• City of Calgary states Scotia Place is planned to open in fall 2027.
• NHL/Flames reports have described planned hockey capacity around 18,400; avoid stating 19,000 as final capacity unless an official source confirms it.

1. 2024Construction begins
2. 2027Scheduled opening

• Future home of Calgary Flames; planned 2030 NHL All-Star bid

TBA — design includes a 360° concourse, ribbon LED, and 50+ premium suites and lounges.

Adjacent to the Victoria Park-Stampede C-Train station, sharing transit infrastructure with the current Saddledome.

Plans include a year-round restaurant district, plaza and adjacent community arena.

What to check before you go

• bag policy
• prohibited items
• camera/video rules
• mobile tickets
• cashless payments
• re-entry
• accessibility entrances
• transit and parking
• door times
• food and beverage
• family washrooms
• sensory/accessibility accommodations

Official policy sources

• City of Calgary Scotia Place

  Official municipal project page; future venue facts must be treated as planned until opening.

• Scotia Place visual tour video

  Official-style design/visual-tour asset; use for planned design context, not final built experience.

Tour status · verify current official status before publishing

• candidate official video
  Scotia Place | A Visual Tour of the Event Centre Block

  Future-venue design context only.

  Engagement less important because source appears project-related; verify official uploader.

Videos are included for venue feel and visitor context. Use official venue/team/municipal sources for factual claims; verify video views/likes/channel identity at publish time.

No verified attendance entries in our archive yet for Scotia Place. We only publish crowd figures we can tie to a named source, so this section stays empty rather than showing estimates.

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Last verified May 20, 2026

• calgary.ca
• nhl.com