Lewiston, Maine

Sixty-seven winters of hockey on Birch Street

The Lewiston Maineiacs play their home games here. Doors on Birch Street, more than 800 parking spaces, and 2,634 seats that get loud. Find yours.

See the Maineiacs schedule

(207) 520-2109

Getting here

190 Birch Street

Androscoggin Bank Colisée
190 Birch St
Lewiston, ME 04240

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Over 800 parking spaces on site, with more on the street alongside. Call the box office at (207) 520-2109 or email info@thecolisee.com.

Front exterior of the Colisée sports and events arena, featuring a curved brick façade with red trim, broad entrance stairs, and Canadian and American flags.
The Birch Street entrance. This is what you are looking for from the road.

Home ice

Come to a game

The Maineiacs are back on Birch Street. Bring the kids, bring your neighbors, and take a seat in a building that has been hosting hockey since the year it opened.

Lewiston and St. Dom’s have been playing on this ice since 1958, and the high school tournaments still fill the place. Game dates, times, and tickets are on the team’s own site.

See the Lewiston Maineiacs schedule

Black-and-white view along an empty wooden hockey team bench beside the ice, enclosed by scuffed boards and plexiglass, with vacant arena seating in the background.
The home bench, in the hours before a game.

The building

67,000 square feet, and it has never sat still

Hockey is what the Colisée was built for, but it is not all that happens here. The floor has held boxing rings, basketball courts, rodeos, ice shows, theater, and the largest business trade show in Maine.

Seats

2,634

For hockey. Up to 4,500 for a concert, with the floor open.

Parking

800+

Spaces on site, plus adjacent street parking.

Floor

67,000

Square feet of multipurpose building, open since 1959.

Booking an event? Call (207) 520-2109 or email info@thecolisee.com.

Since 1958

What has happened on this floor

The Colisée was built to replace the rink at St. Dominic Regional High School and opened in 1959. The years below are a real sequence, which is why they are numbered by date.

  1. 1958–1959

    The Central Maine Youth Center opens

    Built on Birch Street to replace St. Dominic Regional High School’s rink. Lewiston teams have been playing hockey here continuously ever since.

  2. 1965

    Ali beats Liston in under three minutes

    On May 25, the heavyweight championship rematch came to Lewiston. Muhammad Ali, then fighting as Cassius Clay, ended it before the first round was out.

  3. 1973–1977

    The Maine Nordiques move in

    Four seasons of North American Hockey League hockey, played by a cast of characters straight out of Slap Shot. In the same era the Boston Celtics played exhibition games here, on what was then the largest portable basketball floor in the world.

  4. 2003–2011

    Eight seasons of the Lewiston MAINEiacs

    The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team arrived in 2003 on a promise that the building would be renovated, and won the President’s Cup in 2006.

  5. 2008

    The trade shows arrive

    The Androscoggin County Business to Business show — the largest business trade show in Maine — has been held here every year since, alongside the annual Maine Home Show.

Since then: the Maine Democratic Convention, the AHL’s Portland Pirates, University of Maine hockey, the Lipizzaner stallions, the First Robotics competition, New England Fights’ Fight Night, and the Shrine Circus. State and New England high school championships have been won on this ice for more than sixty years, and the tournaments still bring a raucous house.