Geelong Arena is the home of former National Basketball League team the

Geelong Supercats Geelong Supercats is a NBL1 South club based in Geelong, Victoria. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 South. The club is affiliated with Basketball Geelong and Geelong United Basketball. The Supercats play their home gam ...

who now play in the

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. The arena has the majority of its 2,000

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on the broadcast side of the

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with two smaller sections at each end plus two levels of corporate boxes on the opposite to the broadcast side. After the Supercats had their NBL licence revoked following the 1996 NBL season the arena still played host to occasional NBL games with former

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based teams the Victoria Titans/Victoria Giants and the

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all playing one or two games there a season. The arena also hosts occasional

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games such as at the 2003 FIBA Oceania Championship where they won the gold medal. In 2005, the arena received a major upgrade with the installation of a state of the art sprung wooden floor and the installation of new rings with all improvements meeting international specifications as well as receiving new electronic scoreboards. All work was completed in time for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Geelong Arena also hosts numerous functions and concerts by artists such as

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, Midnight Oil,

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, John Farnham and

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, among others.

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