# Venue Data

> Stadium and arena ownership, operators and naming rights. An open, sourced dataset of 135 stadiums, arenas, amphitheatres and motorsport circuits worldwide, covering owners, operators, tenants and the full naming-rights history behind every sponsor name.

Generated: 2026-09-16 (16 September 2026)
Updated: monthly, on the 1st at 03:00 America/Vancouver
License: source data under CC0 (Wikidata), ODbL (OpenStreetMap) and CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); see /sources/

## Key facts

- 135 venues across 36 countries.
- 299 organizations recorded as owners, operators, tenants or sponsors.
- 34 competitions tracked for the scope rule.
- 46 venues (34.1%) currently carry a naming-rights sponsor.
- Owner, operator and tenant are separate dated roles; a venue may have several of each at once.
- Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row carries the source URL it came from and one of five confidence levels: wikidata, wikipedia_infobox, wikipedia_cited, press_release, manual.

## Main pages

- [Venue table](https://venues.example.com/venues/): all 135 venues, sortable and filterable, CSV and JSON download.
- [Full venue list](https://venues.example.com/venues/all/): the same rows as plain paginated HTML.
- [Sponsors](https://venues.example.com/sponsors/): naming-rights leaderboard and industry rollup.
- [Owners](https://venues.example.com/owners/): public, private and team ownership mix by country and competition.
- [Operators](https://venues.example.com/operators/): operator concentration by venue count and capacity.
- [Changes](https://venues.example.com/changes/): permanent page per monthly run listing every altered value.
- [Methodology](https://venues.example.com/methodology/): scope rules, field definitions and known limits.
- [Sources](https://venues.example.com/sources/): every source with its license and attribution.

## Page types

- 135 venue pages at https://venues.example.com/venue/<slug>/
- 299 organization pages at https://venues.example.com/org/<slug>/
- Country pages at https://venues.example.com/country/<iso2>/
- Sport pages at https://venues.example.com/sport/<slug>/
- Competition pages at https://venues.example.com/competition/<slug>/

## Largest countries by venue count

- United States (US): 31 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/us/
- United Kingdom (GB): 20 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/gb/
- Australia (AU): 10 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/au/
- India (IN): 7 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/in/
- Germany (DE): 6 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/de/
- Spain (ES): 5 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/es/
- France (FR): 5 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/fr/
- Mexico (MX): 4 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/mx/
- Japan (JP): 4 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/jp/
- Italy (IT): 3 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/it/
- Portugal (PT): 3 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/pt/
- China (CN): 3 venues, https://venues.example.com/country/cn/

## Machine-readable data

- https://venues.example.com/data/venues_index.json: compact column-array table index.
- https://venues.example.com/data/venues.json: full venue records with roles, names, sponsorships and competitions.
- https://venues.example.com/data/organizations.json: organization records with their venue relationships.
- https://venues.example.com/data/meta.json: row counts, generation date and source attributions.
- https://venues.example.com/llms-full.txt: the long form of this file.

## Attribution

- Wikidata (CC0 1.0): Data from Wikidata, released under CC0.
- OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0): © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Manual correction (N/A): Corrected by site editors from a cited primary source.