The following is a list of sports venues in

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, specifically the

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, that are currently in operation or defunct. The city features two major sports franchises, the

Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers are an American professional men's soccer club based in Portland, Oregon. The Timbers compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. The Timbers have played their home games at P ...

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(MLS) and the

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of the

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(NBA). The

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, who are major

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franchise in the

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, have played in the city since 1976 when the

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were relocated. They are a unique team in that they have two venues, the

Moda Center Moda Center, formerly known as the Rose Garden, is the primary indoor sports arena in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is used for basketball, ice hockey, rodeos, circuses, conventions, ice shows, concerts, and dramatic productions. The arena h ...

and the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

Providence Park Providence Park (formerly Jeld-Wen Field; PGE Park; Civic Stadium; originally Multnomah Stadium; and from 1893 until the stadium was built, Multnomah Field) is an outdoor soccer venue located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. ...

, a 25,218, seat open-air stadium which is the home of the Timbers, is the largest non-auto sports venue in Portland. The Moda Center, formerly the Rose Garden, is second with 19,980 seats for

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games and slightly less for hockey match-ups.

Portland International Raceway Portland International Raceway (PIR) is a motorsport facility in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is part of the Delta Park complex on the former site of Vanport, just south of the Columbia River. It lies west of the Delta Park/Vanport ...

in Hayden Meadows has the largest seating capacity (30,000) of any sporting venue in Portland. There are several golf courses in the Portland metro area, including the

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where the 1946 PGA Championship was held. Besides professional sports franchises, the Portland metro area is home to several colleges and universities athletic programs. Two of those schools, the

Portland State Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans. It evolved into a four-year college over the following two decades ...

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and the

University of Portland , mottoeng = The truth will set you free , established = 1901 , type = Private university , religious_affiliation = Catholic (Congregation of Holy Cross) , endowment = $218 million , president = Robert D. Kelly , students = 3,731 (fall 20 ...

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are

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classified. The Vikings

programs play at 2,000 seat

Peter Stott Center Viking Pavilion, attached to the Peter W. Stott Center, is a 3,094-seat multi-purpose arena located on the Portland State University campus in downtown Portland, Oregon. Viking Pavilion is home to the Portland State men's basketball, women's bas ...

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while the Pilots basketball teams play at their 4,852 seat domed stadium the

Chiles Center The Earle A. & Virginia H. Chiles Center is a 4,852-seat multi-purpose arena in Portland, Oregon, USA. The arena opened in 1984. It is home to the University of Portland Pilots men's and women's basketball teams as well as the women's volleyball ...

in University Park. The Portland State football team shares Providence Park with the professional soccer teams the Portland Timbers, the

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and the

Portland Thorns FC The Portland Thorns FC is an American professional women's soccer team based in Portland, Oregon. Established in 2012, the team began play in 2013 in the then-eight-team National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), which receives support from the Uni ...

. The NAIA

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Cavaliers have the one of the newest sports venues in Portland,

Hilken Community Stadium Hilken Community Stadium is an American football, baseball, soccer and softball stadium located in Portland, Oregon. It served as the home of the Concordia Cavaliers football, baseball, soccer and softball teams. Concordia closed in the spring of ...

, which is home to several of their athletic programs as well as

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Oregon and a local soccer club. The Stoffer Family Stadium in Newberg, where the

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Bruins football team play, was opened in 2014. The Lewis & Clark Pioneers men's and women's tennis team have a unique facility, the Lewis & Clark Tennis Dome, which is an inflatable tent with translucent fabric on the ceiling for a

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effect. Some sports venues were converted for other uses like the Jantzen Beach Arena, and indoor

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and boxing venue which was leased to

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in 1980. Other venues like the

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and the Vanport Extension Gymnasium had been converted into venues for sports after being used for other purposes. The Vanport Extension Gymnasium was built as a

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during World War II but was sold to the State of Oregon who formed Vanport Extension College. The site was flooded in 1948 destroying the gymnasium. Reed Gymnasium II was also a converted barrack that was sold to

Reed College Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...

following World War II. It replaced Reed Gymnasium I which was built in 1914, four years after the founding of the institution. Columbia Gymnasium was a large wood building which had a seating capacity of 1,600 built for

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1903. It was a unique building for its time in that it served as a baseball and football field in bad weather for the Columbia Cliffdwellers sports team. It was demolished after Howard Hall was completed in 1928 which was a 2,500 seat basketball and volleyball court attached to an indoor

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. While Howard Hall still stands on the campus of the now-named University of Portland it no longer serves as the home to any athletic games the

was complete in 1985.

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Current venues

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Defunct venues

Notes

* The Columbia University football and baseball teams used Columbia Gymnasium in bad weather. * Jantzen Beach Arena was sold to the owners of the Jantzen Beach Shopping Center in 1975 who leased it to

in 1980. The building was converted into a storefront and the "closed" date refers to when it ceased operations as a sports venue. * Before Vanport Extension College, the buildings were built for World War II purposes. The "opened" date indicates when the facility was used for sports. After the Vanport Flood in 1948, the gymnasium was destroyed by water damage.

References

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Sports venues in Portland

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