Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
Buildings the Sting called home in the attendance data Ticket Timeline uses—useful when an old ticket names Charlotte Coliseum or the uptown arena from the final 2006 season.
- Former home: Charlotte Coliseum (1997–2005), Charlotte, NC — on Tyvola Road; opened in 1988 and demolished in 2007. Basketball capacity was about 24,000.
- Final home: Charlotte Bobcats Arena (2006), Charlotte, NC — uptown building that opened in 2005; last Sting home game was July 29, 2006. Now Spectrum Center. About 19,000 for basketball.
Coverage in Ticket Timeline's game data starts in 1997, the year the Sting joined the WNBA as one of the league's original eight franchises. Charlotte Coliseum hosted home games through 2005; Charlotte Bobcats Arena hosted the franchise's final half-season in 2006.
Charlotte Coliseum and Charlotte Bobcats Arena are different buildings—not a rename. Coliseum stood on Tyvola Road; Bobcats Arena opened uptown in 2005. Later sponsor names for the uptown building (Time Warner Cable Arena, Spectrum Center) came after the Sting folded.
The Sting folded in January 2007 after failing to find a buyer. Charlotte has had no WNBA team since. The NBA returned to Charlotte with the Bobcats in 2004, but that club did not inherit the Sting franchise.
Andrea Stinson, Dawn Staley, and Charlotte Smith anchored the 2001 run to the WNBA Finals as a No. 4 seed, losing to the Los Angeles Sparks.
The Charlotte Sting hosted WNBA games at Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, NC, USA, from 1997 to 2005, then at Charlotte Bobcats Arena for their final 2006 season. Dates for those nights are anchored in Eastern time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names either arena.