A total of twenty-nine sports venues were used for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Several sports venues for the 1996 Olympics were built before the 1960s as college venues. The first professional teams in Atlanta came in 1966, when Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves moved from Milwaukee and the NFL added the Atlanta Falcons as an expansion team. In 1968, the NBA came to the city when the Atlanta Hawks arrived from St. Louis, and the NHL arrived four years later with the expansion Atlanta Flames.

The Braves and Falcons shared Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium from 1966 through 1991, after which the Falcons moved into the Georgia Dome, playing at that stadium from 1992 through 2016. The Braves would remain at the former stadium through the 1996 season. The Hawks initially played at Alexander Memorial Coliseum, now McCamish Pavilion, on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology before the Omni Coliseum was completed in 1972 for both the Hawks and Flames. After the , the Flames left for their current home of Calgary.

Bidding for the 1996 Games was held in 1990. Seventy-five percent of the venues used for the 1996 Games were owned by the state of Georgia. One of the new venues, the Georgia International Horse Park, had organization problems for the modern pentathlon event that included the competitors being forced to sit under an oak tree during the riding part of the event. The Georgia World Congress Center hosted the dramatic weightlifting 64 kg event that involved national tensions between Greece and Turkey.

After the Olympics, the Olympic Stadium, as intended from its construction, was converted into the baseball park Turner Field, which opened in 1997. That same year, both Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium and the Omni Coliseum were imploded within one week of one another. Philips Arena (since renamed State Farm Arena) was built upon the former Omni's footprint and opened in 1999, while the area where Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium stood is now a parking lot near Turner Field. The Braves vacated Turner Field after their 2016 season to move to a new ballpark in Cobb County now known as Truist Park; Georgia State University acquired Turner Field and its surrounding parking lots in January 2017 and converted the former Olympic Stadium a second time into the venue now known as Center Parc Stadium to host their college football program.

Olympic Ring

VenueSportsCapacity Ref. Alexander Memorial Coliseum Boxing 10,0001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 539. Accessed 9 December 2010.1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 452. Accessed 9 December 2010. Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium Baseball 54,0001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 450. Accessed 9 December 2010. Clark Atlanta University Stadium Field hockey 5,0001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 458. Accessed 9 December 2010. Cycling road course Cycling (road) 8001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 542. Accessed 9 December 2010.1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 170. Accessed 9 December 2010. Georgia Dome Basketball (final), Gymnastics (artistic), Handball (men's final) 34,500 (each side)1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 540. Accessed 9 December 2010.1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 451, 456. Accessed 9 December 2010. Georgia State University Gymnasium Badminton 3,500 Georgia Tech Aquatic Center Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Swimming, Synchronized swimming, Water polo 15,0001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 448, 460. Accessed 9 December 2010. Georgia World Congress Center Fencing, Handball, Judo, Modern pentathlon (fencing, shooting), Table tennis, Weightlifting, Wrestling 3,900 (fencing)7,300 (handball)7,300 (judo)4,700 (table tennis)5,000 (weightlifting)7,300 (wrestling)1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 540-1. Accessed 9 December 2010.1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 448, 455, 457, 459-60, 462, 466. Accessed 9 December 2010. Marathon course Athletics (marathon) 8001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 108. Accessed 9 December 2010. Morehouse College Gymnasium Basketball (preliminaries) 6,5001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 451. Accessed 9 December 2010. Morris Brown College Stadium Field hockey (finals) 15,000 Olympic Stadium Athletics, Ceremonies (opening/ closing) 85,6001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 449. Accessed 9 December 2010. Omni Coliseum Volleyball 16,5001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 543. Accessed 9 December 2010.1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 465. Accessed 9 December 2010. Walking course Athletics (walks) 800

Metro Atlanta VenueSportsCapacity Ref. Atlanta Beach Volleyball (beach) 12,6001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 464. Accessed 9 December 2010. Georgia International Horse Park Cycling (mountain bike), Equestrian, Modern pentathlon (riding, running) 32,000 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 453-4, 460. Accessed 9 December 2010. Olympic Park, Lake Lanier Canoeing (sprint), Rowing 17,3001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 541. Accessed 9 December 2010.1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 452, 460. Accessed 9 December 2010. Stone Mountain Park Archery Center and Velodrome Archery, Cycling (track) 5,200 (archery)6,000 (cycling track)1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 448, 453. Accessed 9 December 2010. Stone Mountain Tennis Center Tennis 27,5001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 544. Accessed 9 December 2010.1996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. pp. 448, 453. Accessed 9 September 2010. Wolf Creek Shooting Complex Shooting 7,5001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 460. Accessed 9 December 2010.

Other venues

VenueLocationSportsCapacity Ref. Florida Citrus Bowl Orlando, Florida Soccer 65,000 Golden Park Columbus, Georgia Softball 8,8001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 462. Accessed 9 December 2010. Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama Soccer 81,700 Ocoee Whitewater Center Ducktown, Tennessee Canoeing (slalom) 14,4001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 164. Accessed 9 December 2010. Orange Bowl Miami Soccer 74,476 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Washington, D.C. Soccer 56,500 Sanford Stadium Athens, Georgia Soccer (final) 86,1001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 455. Accessed 9 December 2010. Stegeman Coliseum Athens, Georgia Gymnastics (rhythmic), Volleyball (indoor) 10,0001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 457. Accessed 9 December 2010. Wassaw Sound Savannah, Georgia Sailing 1,0001996 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 3. p. 467. Accessed 9 December 2010.

Before the Olympics

Before professional sports came to Atlanta and the Southern United States in the 1960s, college sports were followed in a manner similar to that of professional sports in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwestern part of the United States. The oldest of the venues in the South used for the 1996 Games was Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, which opened in 1926 and used from 1948 to 1988 for the Iron Bowl college football rivalry between Auburn University and the University of Alabama, a game that now alternates between the two schools' on-campus stadiums.Encyclopediaofalabama.org profile of the Iron Bowl. Accessed 10 December 2010.Informationbirmingham.com profile of Legion Field. Accessed 10 December 2010. Legion Field hosted the SEC Championship Game for the first two seasons of 1992 and 1993 before the venue moved to Atlanta and the Georgia Dome in 1994, where it had remained until the closure of the Georgia Dome in 2017.Sports-reference.com 1992 Alabama Crimson Tide schedule and results. Accessed 10 December 2010.Sports-reference.com 1993 Florida Gators schedule and results. Accessed 10 December 2010.Sports-reference.com 1994 Florida Gators schedule and results. Accessed 10 December 2010. The SEC Championship Game is currently hosted at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the successor to the Georgia Dome. Three years after Legion Field was completed, Sanford Stadium opened on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, and has undergone several expansions since its opening.Georgiadogs.com profile of Sanford Stadium. Accessed 10 December 2010. The Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida opened in 1936, and has undergone several expansions of its own.Orlandovenues.net history of the Citrus Bowl. Accessed 10 December 2010. In Miami, the Orange Bowl (known as Burdine Stadium until 1959) opened the following year, and served as the home of the University of Miami Hurricanes, who played in the stadium from its opening until its closure in 2007.Orangebowlstadium.com History of the Orange Bowl. Accessed 10 December 2010. Alexander Memorial Coliseum on the Georgia Tech campus opened in 1956.ramblinwreck.cstv.com profile of the Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Accessed 10 December 2010.

In 1961, the District of Columbia Stadium opened in Washington, D.C., with the National Football League (NFL) Washington Redskins losing 24–21 to the New York Giants.Pro-football-reference.com NFL Washington District of Columbia Stadium 1 October 1961 WAS-NYG results. Accessed 10 December 2010. The Stadium (renamed Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Memorial Stadium in 1969 in honor of Robert F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated the previous June) served as home of the second Washington Senators Major League Baseball (MLB) team from 1961 to 1971, when they moved to Dallas, Texas the following year and were renamed the Texas Rangers (the first Senators team were in Washington from 1901 to 1960 before relocating to Minneapolis in 1961 and being renamed the Minnesota Twins, a name they have retained to this day).Baseball-reference.com 1901 Washington Senators (I) season results. Accessed 10 December 2010.Baseball-reference.com 1960 Washington Senators (I) season results. Accessed 10 December 2010.Baseball-reference.com 1961 Minnesota Twins season results. Accessed 10 December 2010.Baseball-reference.com 1961 Washington Senators (II) season results. Accessed 10 December 2010.Baseball-reference.com 1971 Washington Senators (II) season results. Accessed 10 December 2010.Baseball-reference.com 1972 Texas Rangers season results. Accessed 10 December 2010.