New Cardiff Bay Arena
Atlantic Wharf Arena | |
Rendering of the proposed arena | |
Interactive map of New Cardiff Bay Arena | |
| Location | Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff Bay |
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| Coordinates | 51°28′07″N 3°09′52″W / 51.4686°N 3.1645°W |
| Owner | Cardiff Council |
| Operator | Live Nation UK Oak View Group |
| Capacity | 16,500 15,358 (seated) |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | September 2025 |
| Opened | 2028 (projected) |
| Construction cost | £300 million (projected) |
| Architect | Populous, HOK |
| Builder | McLaren Construction Group |
| General contractor | WSP Global, Turner & Townsend |
| Main contractors | Robertson Group |
| Website | |
| Project website | |
New Cardiff Bay Arena, also referred to as Atlantic Wharf Arena, is a indoor arena under construction in Atlantic Wharf, a southern area of the city of Cardiff, Wales.
The multi-purpose 16,500-capacity arena is being built on a site near to Cardiff Bay's Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) and is expected to open in 2028. It forms part of a wider masterplan to regenerate the city's wharf area with a large mixed-use development.
After a number of delays, construction began following the groundbreaking ceremony in September 2025 and is expected to be undertaken in four phases over multiple years: the first being the construction of the new arena, WMC's digital and "immersive" arts theatre, a replacement hotel and multi-storey car park followed by the relocation of the Red Dragon Centre's tenants into a new complex. The third phase of the masterplan would include a new office space delivered along with an additional hotel and finally new homes and apartments, with potential for more commercial space; the latter neighbourhood phase is dependent on proposed plans being approved to replace Cardiff Council's ageing County Hall with a new smaller purpose-built building.