The Riverbank Arena was a stadium in the Olympic Park, in Hackney Wick containing a water-based astroturf.
It was built with two venues for field-hockey competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics with capacities of 15,000 and 5,000, respectively, and venues for the football 7-a-side and football 5-a-side competitions at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
The budget for the stadium was £19 million. After the Olympics, the venue will be scaled down to a 5,000-seat arena and a training pitch and moved north to Eton Manor, a sport and leisure venue in Leyton, Waltham Forest.[clarification needed] In January 2011, Leyton Orient F.C. expressed an interest in moving into the stadium after the games.
In May 2012, it opened with a test event, a men's and women's invitational hockey tournament.
Riverbank Arena was dismantled following the conclusion of the 2012 Games.
