The State Sports Centre (known commercially as the Quaycentre) is a multi-use indoor arena in Sydney,

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, Australia and was opened in November 1984. With a total of 3,854 fixed and retractable seats the main arena is a focal point of the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre. An additional 1,152 portable seats can be accommodated on the floor level to bring seated capacity to 5,006.Quay Centre (Austadiums)
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History

Basketball and netball

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, Centre became home to Sydney's then two National Basketball League (NBL) teams, the Sydney Supersonics and West Sydney Westars. When they merged before the

1988 NBL season The 1988 NBL season was the tenth season of competition since its establishment in 1979. A total of 13 teams contested the league. Clubs Following the merger of the Sydney Supersonics and West Sydney Westars to form the Sydney Kings, the NBL h ...

to form the Sydney Kings, the new team remained at the centre and would stay for two years before moving to the 12,000 seat

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(SEC) in 1990. The Centre then hosted local basketball until the formation of a new NBL team in 1998 called the

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(later renamed the Sydney Spirit). The new club called the Centre home from 1998 until the club folded in 2009. The

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netball team called the venue home from 1997–2003 until they folded, and since 2008 it has been the home venue for the

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netball team. Between 2017 and 2019, it was home to the

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team

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. Due to a schedule conflict at the SEC, the Sydney Kings returned to the State Sports Centre for a game against defending NBL champions the

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in Round 10 of the

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. The Kings defeated the Breakers 75–62 in front of 4,178 fans.

Futsal

The centre hosted finals games in the Australian

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is ...

league, with crowds higher than would have been appropriate for the usual Sydney venue of the Fairfield Leisure Centre.

2000 Olympic Games

The State Sports Centre was one of the

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of the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

, held in Sydney. It hosted the

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

and

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...

events.

Other

Hillsong's album ''

For This Cause ''For This Cause'' is the ninth album in the live praise and worship series of contemporary worship music by Hillsong Church. It was recorded live at the State Sports Centre in Sydney Olympic Park by Darlene Zschech and the Hillsong team, with a c ...

'' was recorded at the centre on 5 March 2000. C3 Church's album ''Send Down Your Love'' was also recorded at the centre during the Church's "Love Sydney" event held on 10 September 2009. In 1998, Shout to the Lord 2000 was recorded at this place as well during the 1998 Hillsong Conference.

References

2000 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 1. p. 382.

External links

State Sports Centre
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