Every match, one building
Unlike beach volleyball, which runs several courts at once, Olympic indoor volleyball is a single-court tournament. Every match of both the men's and women's competitions at LA28 will be played at the Honda Center in Anaheim, from the opening group games through both gold medal matches.
Reports put it at 52 sessions across sixteen days, which would make it one of the busiest venues of the entire Games.
The building
Honda Center opened in 1993 as the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim and took its current name in 2006. It is owned by the City of Anaheim, operated by Anaheim Arena Management, and home to the Anaheim Ducks of the NHL.
Capacity is 17,174 for hockey and somewhere around 18,000 to 18,600 for volleyball, depending on the configuration LA28 settles on.
It sits next to Angel Stadium and the Anaheim Convention Center, and it is under two miles from Disneyland. That last detail matters more than it sounds. Hotel density around the Disneyland Resort is among the highest in Southern California, which makes Anaheim one of the easier LA28 venues to visit without a car.
Why Anaheim
Because American men's indoor volleyball already lives there.
Anaheim has been the training base for the United States Men's National Team since 2006. The programme built there won gold in Beijing in 2008 and took bronze in Rio in 2016 and again in Paris in 2024. The Anaheim Convention Center hosted the Volleyball Nations League in 2023, bringing Olympic-level teams from the USA, France, Argentina and Germany to the city.
Honda Center also hosted an AVP professional beach volleyball event in 2024, on sand trucked into the arena. It has been a volleyball building for a while.
This is not an arena that happened to be free. It is the centre of American men's indoor volleyball, hosting the Olympic tournament.
Getting there
Rail. ARTIC, the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, is directly adjacent to the arena. Metrolink's Orange County and 91 Lines connect to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles in roughly 45 minutes. Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner also stops there.
Bus. OCTA routes serve Katella Avenue. The Anaheim Resort Transit shuttle connects the arena to Disneyland-area hotels.
Driving. Shared parking lots with Angel Stadium run along Katella. Expect this to be considerably harder during the Games.
The transit position is genuinely good. Very few LA28 venues have a regional rail hub next door.
The 1984 bookend
Los Angeles hosted the Olympics in 1984, and the United States men won gold in indoor volleyball. It remains one of the defining moments in American volleyball history and the launching point for a generation of the sport in this country.
Anaheim was a host city that year too, though not for volleyball. It staged wrestling at the Anaheim Convention Center: twenty contests across forty-four countries.
Forty-four years later, Olympic volleyball returns to Southern California, and Anaheim gets the sport it has spent two decades building.
Play indoors nearby
Orange County has a deep indoor volleyball scene: club programmes, adult leagues, open gyms and rec centres across Anaheim, Irvine, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach. The directory lists what is open to drop-in play and what requires a membership.
What to watch for
- The session schedule, when LA28 publishes it
- Ticketing, which runs through registered draws rather than open sale
- Qualification, which for indoor runs on a different system from beach
- Whether the arena's ongoing renovation affects capacity or configuration
Independent coverage. Not affiliated with LA28, the IOC, FIVB, USA Volleyball, or Honda Center. Details from LA28, FIVB and City of Anaheim announcements as of August 2026; verify current details at la28.org.