verizon center became capital one arena in 2009.
verizon center became capital one arena in 2009.
when did verizon center become capital one arena?
2009
a report emerged in may 2015 that verizon would not renew its naming rights to the verizon center when its agreement with monumental was to end in 2018. in the same week, it was announced that etihad airways signed a deal to become the official airline of the arena, sparking speculation that etihad might be the leading contender to assume naming rights in 2017. however, on august 9, 2017, it was announced the bank capital one had purchased the rights, renaming the venue capital one arena.









































the arena hosted the 2016 kellogg's tour of gymnastics champions.
capital one arena
to accommodate its growing fan base, the mens basketball team moved to the capital centre (later known as usair arena and later still as us airways arena) in landover, maryland, beginning with the 1981-82 season, and early in the 1997-98 season it moved again to the mci center, a new downtown washington, d.c. arena later renamed the verizon center and now known as capital one arena. however, mcdonough remained the team′s practice facility until 2016, and since 1981 it has on occasion hosted georgetown preseason and regular-season games, generally against less-well-known opponents; big east conference rules did not permit georgetown to host conference games there because of the gymnasiums small capacity, and no regular-season games against well-known opponents have been held at mcdonough since georgetown played there against no. 4 missouri in february 1982 and big east rival providence in january 1984. the only exceptions have been games georgetown hosted during appearances in the national invitation tournament (nit); under nit rules, schools in the tournament were required to play games on campus or at campus-owned facilities, and so the hoyas hosted 1993 and 2005 nit games at mcdonough. a scheduling conflict at the verizon center, which already had booked the ringling brothers and barnum & bailey circus on game day, forced georgetown to host a 2014 nit game at mcdonough. mcdonough also hosted a 2019 nit game on an evening when capital one arena – as the verizon center had been renamed in august 2017 – was in use for a washington capitals national hockey league game.
mcdonough gymnasium