42-638: Vodafone Arena may refer to: John Cain Arena , in Melbourne, Australia, known as Vodafone Arena 2000–2008 Vodafone Arena (Fiji) , in Suva, constructed for the 2003 South Pacific Games Vodafone Park , in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, known as Vodafone Arena 2016–2017 NKT Arena Karlskrona , Sweden, formerly known as Vodafone Arena Topics referred to by
84-725: A WNBL game between the Southside Flyers and the Sydney Flames following increased interest in the match due to the participation of Hall of Fame player Lauren Jackson . The game set a WNBL record of 7,681 spectators. Netball is played regularly at the venue. It is the home court of the Melbourne Vixens and Melbourne Mavericks in the Suncorp Super Netball competition. The Melbourne Phoenix and Melbourne Kestrels also played games at
126-533: A 20-year period and employment of about 13,600 jobs. Having previously hosted the 1956 Olympics, Melbourne has hosted world sporting events such as the 1979 World Fencing Championships . The city made a bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympics , but was unsuccessful in its bid to Atlanta . Following the failure of the Olympic bid, the city would later make plans to host the Commonwealth Games. During
168-628: A concert for Life Tour supporting their album History of Tomorrow . From 2011 to 2013 the venue hosted the Melbourne judges' audition stages of the Seven Network singer search program The X Factor . Its also been the home to the Victorian State Schools Spectacular since 2008. In November 2022, a stampede occurred outside the venue prior to a concert for American singer Steve Lacy , with poor organization by stadium management being blamed for it. The concert
210-414: A disability (EAD). These events were included in the official medal tally. * Host nation ( Australia ) The logo of the 2006 Commonwealth Games is an image of 2 figures, which represents sport and culture, achievement and excellence, while the colours green, yellow, and red represents celebratory, fresh and youthfully optimistic character of Melbourne city. The two figures in
252-473: A distinctly eco-friendly image. The creation of this village attracted controversy, with critics claiming it was created by alienating public parkland, while proponents maintained that it represented the renewal of an otherwise derelict inner-city area. The change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time in Australian states that follow it was delayed from 26 March to 2 April for 2006 to avoid affecting
294-423: A maximum spectator capacity of 11,000 for events such as music concerts where general floor seating or standing room is available. For basketball , netball and tennis the capacity is 10,500. When the velodrome is in use the northern and southern banks of seats, which cover the turns of the velodrome, are raised to reveal the track while the floor seating is removed leaving a reduced capacity of 4,500. Following
336-755: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John Cain Arena John Cain Arena is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena located within Melbourne Park in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia. It is the second-largest venue and show court for the Australian Open , the first Grand Slam professional tennis tournament held each calendar year. The arena also hosts various other sporting and entertainment events throughout
378-518: Is the roster between the 2006 games and the 2002 games was the absence of Zimbabwe , which had withdrawn from the Commonwealth of Nations . The 2006 Commonwealth Games included 17 sports, with 12 individual sports and 4 team sports. In total there are 245 events at the Games. The athletics, swimming, table tennis and weightlifting sports included fully integrated events for elite athletes with
420-520: The 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , two cities initially expressed interest in hosting the event; Melbourne, Australia and Wellington , New Zealand. Wellington withdrew its bid, citing the costs involved with matching the bid plan presented by Melbourne, which became the default host without members of the Federation going to vote. The following venues were used at
462-614: The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. On request of Sierra Leone officials, the Commonwealth Games Federation cancelled those athletes' Games accreditation, allowing the Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) to cancel their visas at midnight on 27 March, and begin investigating their disappearance. At 7.20 am on that day, New South Wales Police located six of
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#1732776671938504-561: The 2006 Commonwealth Games the stadium was used for basketball and other sports. Its name was changed to Multi-Purpose Venue with all Vodafone-related signage covered over with black shrouds because Telstra , a competitor of Vodafone, was a major sponsor of the games. In 2004 and 2012 , the UCI Track Cycling World Championships were held at the venue. Other events were UCI World Cup events and Australian Madison Championships. On 14 and 15 June 2013,
546-576: The 2015–16 NBL season and continue to play their games at John Cain Arena, while the Vixens will continue to split their games between John Cain and Margaret Court Arenas, with John Cain used for games expected to attract a larger crowd. During construction, the project was referred to as the Melbourne Park Multi-Purpose Venue . When it opened in 2000, a sponsor was immediately assigned naming rights and it became known as
588-728: The 2016–17 NBL season when 10,300 fans saw Melbourne United defeat the New Zealand Breakers 98–74. This broke the previous basketball attendance record of 9,308 set in 2008 in a local derby game between the South Dragons and Melbourne Tigers. The venue co-hosted the 2007 FIBA Oceania Championship where the Australian national basketball team won the gold medal. John Cain Arena has also hosted several Harlem Globetrotters Exhibition Games during their tours of Australia. On 4 February 2023, John Cain Arena hosted
630-612: The Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Yarra River were again centrepieces for the ceremony. Samresh Jung of India was given the David Dixon Award at the closing ceremony. He was the "Best Athlete of the 18th Commonwealth Games". The games were closed by The Earl of Wessex , Prince Edward. There were 71 countries, territories and bodies competing at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The only difference
672-470: The Victoria Titans and South Dragons used it as their home, until high rental prices forced the teams to find other venues. Until this move the venue was largely devoid of sporting events outside of the two weeks of the Australian Open tournament held each January. The Dragons, founded in 2006 until they withdrew from the competition after winning the championship in 2009, played three seasons at
714-549: The Vodafone Arena . This arrangement lasted for eight years. On 12 May 2008, it was announced that its name would change to Hisense Arena in a multimillion-dollar deal that was originally supposed to last six years. Meanwhile, temporarily throughout the 2006 Commonwealth Games , the Hisense Arena reverted to being called "Multi Purpose Venue" for the duration of the sporting event. In 2014 the naming contract with
756-602: The 2006 Commonwealth Games. The sport(s) that were played at that venue are listed after it. Early concerns arose about the large cost of staging the event, with projected costs likely to be over AUD 1 billion and a high likelihood the Victorian taxpayer would have to cover the expense. The cost was described in some local media as excessive. National Party leader Peter Ryan said that the Labor government should win "gold (medal) for burning money". However, not all of this money
798-581: The Closing Ceremony on 26 March, officials from the Cameroon team reported to police that nine of their members had also vanished. These incidents were not without precedent: 27 athletes similarly disappeared from the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England (21 from Sierra Leone, 5 from Bangladesh and one from Pakistan), and over 80 athletes and officials overstayed their visas after
840-716: The Sierra Leonean athletes in a house at Freshwater near Manly Beach in Sydney. All six indicated they wished to seek political asylum in Australia , and were granted bridging visas by DIMA while their refugee applications were arranged. The athletes claimed to have been subjected to violence and torture in their home country; seventeen-year-old Isha Conteh stated she could be forced into female genital cutting if she returned. On Tuesday 28 March, six further Sierra Leoneans turned themselves in to immigration authorities in Sydney and were also granted bridging visas. Two of
882-648: The arena in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy before merging to form the Vixens. The Vixens also used it for home games in the ANZ Championship . The Australian Diamonds sometime play home international fixtures at the venue. The venue also hosted the 2016 , 2017 and 2018 Fast5 Netball World Series . The largest netball attendance at the arena was on 20 November 2004 when 10,300 saw the Diamonds defeat New Zealand 53 to 51. During
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#1732776671938924-618: The arena. For the 2012–13 NBL season , the Tigers (now renamed Melbourne United ) returned to the venue, and played 7 of their 13 home games at the arena. They later shifted all home matches to the venue. The Phoenix, who made their debut in the 2019–20 NBL season , share their home with John Cain Arena and the State Basketball Centre in Wantirna South . The largest basketball crowd was on 4 December 2016 during
966-401: The court. Construction commenced in the late 1990s, and was completed in 2000. The arena features a cycling track, which is covered over with seating for court events. The tennis court is a GreenSet surface (between 2008 and 2019 the surface was Plexicushion ) and the roof is retractable , making it one of the few venues where tennis can be played during rain. The venue is able to hold
1008-510: The event. With 245 sets of medals, the games featured 17 Commonwealth sports . These sporting events took place at 13 venues in the host city, two venues in Bendigo and one venue each in Ballarat , Geelong , Lysterfield Park and Traralgon . The site for the opening and closing ceremonies was the Melbourne Cricket Ground , which was also used during the 1956 Olympics. The mascot for
1050-499: The first time ever, the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games appointed a Goodwill Partner, Plan International Australia . Both the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Yarra River were centrepieces for the ceremony, which included many fireworks, and other spectacle. The Games were opened by Elizabeth II , in her capacity as Head of the Commonwealth . The Queen is also Head of State of a number of Commonwealth countries. Both
1092-554: The games was Karak , a red-tailed black cockatoo (a threatened species ). The official song of the games, " Together We Are One ", was composed by the ARIA awardee Australian recording artist Delta Goodrem . During the closing ceremony of the games, President of the Commonwealth Games Federation Mike Fennell declared to the crowd "Melbourne, you are simply the best". For the first time in
1134-405: The games. In addition, state and private schools amended their usual term times so as to allow the first term holidays to coincide with the Games. Melbourne's public transport system – train, tram and bus – ran to altered timetables with some amended or substituted services for the duration of the Games. For the most part, timetabled services were unchanged but suffered due to higher loads. For
1176-682: The history of the Commonwealth Games , the Queen's Baton visited every single Commonwealth nation and territory taking part in the Games, a journey of 180,000 kilometres (110,000 miles). The relay ended when the Governor of Victoria, and former Commonwealth Games medallist, John Landy delivered the baton to Her Majesty the Queen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the opening ceremony. The host nation Australia topped
1218-487: The logo joined to form a letter M, which is the initial letter of Melbourne, the games host city. Karak was the mascot for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He was modelled on a red-tailed black cockatoo , a threatened species within the host country, Australia. On 20 March 2006 it was reported that two athletes had gone missing from the Commonwealth Games village: Tanzanian boxer Omari Idd Kimweri and Bangladeshi runner Mohammad Tawhidul Islam. On 22 March 2006 it
1260-408: The medal table for the fifth time in the past five Commonwealth Games, winning the most golds (84) and most medals overall (221). England and Canada finished second and third respectively. The 2006 Commonwealth Games have been lauded as “best Commonwealth Games ever”. A KPMG analysis of 2006 Commonwealth Games found the event prompted an increase in gross state product of about A$ 1.6 billion over
1302-506: The mid-1980s. The new name came into effect in December 2020. Every year, the venue hosts many matches as part of the Australian Open tennis tournament. It has usually only been used for day matches in the first 10 days of the tournament. In 2012 the venue began hosting night matches during the first week of the tournament, at the same time as matches being played on the adjacent Rod Laver Arena . The first Australian Open match played at
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1344-430: The multinational Hisense was extended for a further three years. Despite the contract ending at the conclusion of 2017, Hisense Arena remained the name of the venue for several more months, effectively for free. In August 2018, Tennis Australia announced it had bought the naming rights and had elected to call it Melbourne Arena , saying it preferred a non-commercial title "iconic with the city". The non-corporate name
1386-680: The renovation of the Margaret Court Arena as part of a A$ 363 million upgrade to Melbourne Park in time for the 2015 Australian Open, which included a retractable roof and an increase in capacity from 6,000 to 7,500, both Melbourne United (formerly the Melbourne Tigers) and the Melbourne Vixens announced their intentions to move from the arena to the smaller capacity Margaret Court Arena (MCA) from 2015. However, Melbourne United abandoned their move to MCA after
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1470-478: The venue played host to an ice hockey exhibition series between teams representing the United States and Canada. The arena hosts several musical and entertainment events each year, in concert with other venues in the precinct. On 26 February 2007, Irish boy band Westlife held a concert for The Love Tour supporting their LP The Love Album . On 18 September 2018, Taiwanese vocal pop band Mayday held
1512-435: The venue was on 15 January 2001 and lasted less than ten minutes, when Monica Seles advanced to the second round after Brie Rippner was felled with injury in the second game of the match. The first match completed on the court was Tim Henman 's first round win over Hicham Arazi . John Cain Arena is the main home court of National Basketball League (NBL) teams Melbourne United and South East Melbourne Phoenix . Formerly,
1554-431: The year. The arena has sometimes been dubbed "The People's Court" during Australian Open matches, owing to its accessibility for Australian Open patrons with a ground pass (i.e. the cheapest form of ticketing available) and the close proximity of spectators to the players, with the arena developing a reputation for being an incredibly passionate venue with a terrific atmosphere, particularly when Australians are playing on
1596-506: Was originally fixtured to be held at The Forum Theatre in Melbourne's central business district, but was upgraded due to high demand. 2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games , officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 , were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held in Melbourne , Australia between 15 and 26 March 2006. It
1638-405: Was reported that seven athletes from Sierra Leone (three women and four men) had also disappeared. A further seven Sierra Leonean athletes also went missing during the course of the Games, bringing the total runaway count to fourteen (two-thirds of the team). Victoria Police believed that they had fled to Sydney where the Sierra Leonean community is much larger than Melbourne's. Two hours before
1680-502: Was the fourth time Australia had hosted the Commonwealth Games. It was also the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held. More than 4,000 athletes from 71 Commonwealth Games Associations took part in the event. Zimbabwe withdrew its membership from the Commonwealth of Nations and Commonwealth Games Federation on 8 December 2003 and so did not participate in
1722-543: Was to be in effect for five years, though the Victorian Government and Tennis Australia did not rule out extending the arena's name beyond that period. On 3 February 2020, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced that the arena would be renamed "John Cain Arena" in honour of John Cain Jr. , the late State Premier of Victoria, who is regarded as a critical figure in keeping the Australian Open in Melbourne in
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1764-401: Was wasted. The actual costs for hosting the games was AUD 1.144 billion and prior to the Games, accountants at KPMG were estimating that the gross income generated by this event could be as high as AUD 1.5 billion. An athlete's village in the inner suburb of Parkville housed approximately 7,000 athletes and support staff during the Games, and has been transformed into commercial housing with
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