List of current National Football League stadiums

U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, the newest stadium in the National Football League. It is the current home of the Minnesota Vikings.

This article is a list of current National Football League stadiums, sorted by capacity, their locations, their first year of usage and home teams. Though there are 32 teams in the National Football League, there are only 31 full-time NFL stadiums because the New York Giants and New York Jets share MetLife Stadium.

The newest NFL stadium is U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home of the Minnesota Vikings, which opened for the 2016 season.

The NFL uses several other stadiums on a regular basis in addition to the teams' designated regular home sites. In England, Wembley Stadium in London is contracted to host at least two games per season, as part of the NFL International Series which runs through 2020, and Twickenham Stadium, also in London, is scheduled to host at least one game. Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico, will also host a NFL International Series game in 2016. In addition, Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio, is the location of the annual exhibition Pro Football Hall of Fame Game. Starting in 2016, Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida will host the Pro Bowl.

The majority of NFL stadiums have sold naming rights to corporations. As of the 2016 season, there are seven exceptions: Arrowhead Stadium, Georgia Dome, Lambeau Field, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Oakland Alameda Coliseum, Paul Brown Stadium, and Soldier Field. This list will reduce to six in 2017 when Mercedes-Benz Stadium opens as the Georgia Dome's replacement.

Stadium characteristics

Stadiums represent a considerable expense to a community, and thus their construction, use, and funding often enters the public discourse.[1] Also, given the perceived advantage a team gets to playing in its home stadium, particular attention is given in the media to the peculiarities of each stadium's environment. Climate, playing surface (either natural or artificial turf), and the type of roof all contribute to giving each team its home-field advantage.

Stadiums are either open, enclosed, or have a retractable roof. For retractable roofs, the home team determines if the roof is to be opened or closed 90 minutes before kickoff. The roof remains open unless precipitation or lightning is within the vicinity of the stadium, the temperature drops below 40 °F (4 °C), or wind gusts are greater than 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), in which case the roof operators will close the roof.[2]

Seating

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is currently the largest stadium in the NFL by regular seating capacity. The stadium has a seating capacity of 93,607. The smallest stadium is Oakland Alameda Coliseum, the home of the Oakland Raiders, with a seating capacity of 56,063.[3]

Except for the Coliseum, all of the NFL's stadiums currently seat between 60,000 and 94,000 (in contrast to college football stadiums, the largest of which can accommodate over 100,000 spectators). Teams rarely build their stadiums far beyond the 80,000 seat threshold (and even then, only in the largest markets) because of the league's blackout policy, which prohibited the televising of any NFL game within 75 miles of its home market if a game does not sell all of its non-premium seating. For this reason, until the blackout was suspended in 2015, the Cowboys restricted capacity to 80,000 seats at AT&T Stadium, a stadium that can hold over 100,000 spectators at full capacity. Oakland Alameda Coliseum, the stadium that hosts the Oakland Raiders, has over 60,000 seats, but the team restricted capacity to under 53,000 in more recent seasons. In the opposite direction, the league has a firm minimum on the number of seats an NFL stadium should have; since 1971 the league has not allowed any stadium under 50,000 seats to host a full-time NFL team (there were two exceptions to this; Metropolitan Stadium in Minnesota was not replaced until 1982, and Vanderbilt Stadium hosted the Tennessee Oilers for one season in 1998 after a planned two-year residency in Memphis was cut in half). In normal circumstances, all NFL stadiums are all-seaters.

Legend

double-daggerDenotes stadium with a retractable roof.
daggerDenotes stadium with a fixed roof.

List of current stadiums

Some stadiums can be expanded to fit larger crowds for other events such as concerts or conventions. Official seating capacities do not include standing room.

Image Name Seating capacity Location Playing surface Roof type Team(s) Opened Ref(s)
Arrowhead Stadium 76,416 Kansas City, Missouri Latitude 36 Bermuda Grass Open Kansas City Chiefs 1972 [4]
AT&T Stadiumdouble-dagger 80,000 Arlington, Texas Matrix RealGrass artificial turf Retractable Dallas Cowboys 2009 [5][6]
Bank of America Stadium 75,419 Charlotte, North Carolina Voyager Bermuda Grass Open Carolina Panthers 1996 [7]
CenturyLink Field 68,000 Seattle, Washington FieldTurf Revolution Open Seattle Seahawks 2002 [8]
EverBank Field 67,246 Jacksonville, Florida Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass Open Jacksonville Jaguars 1995 [9]
FedExField 82,000 Landover, Maryland Latitude 36 Bermuda Grass Open Washington Redskins 1997 [10]
FirstEnergy Stadium 67,431 Cleveland, Ohio Kentucky Bluegrass Open Cleveland Browns 1999 [11]
Ford Fielddagger 65,000 Detroit, Michigan FieldTurf Classic HD Fixed Detroit Lions 2002 [12]
Georgia Domedagger 71,250 Atlanta, Georgia FieldTurf Classic HD Fixed Atlanta Falcons 1992 [13]
Gillette Stadium 66,829 Foxborough, Massachusetts FieldTurf Revolution Open New England Patriots 2002 [14]
Hard Rock Stadium 65,326 Miami Gardens, Florida Platinum TE Paspalum Open Miami Dolphins 1987 [15]
Heinz Field 68,400 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kentucky Bluegrass Open Pittsburgh Steelers 2001 [16]
Lambeau Field 81,435 Green Bay, Wisconsin Hybrid Grass-Synthetic[17] Open Green Bay Packers 1957 [18]
Levi's Stadium 68,500 Santa Clara, California Tifway II Bermuda Grass / Perennial Ryegrass mixture Open San Francisco 49ers 2014 [19]
Lincoln Financial Field 69,596 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Desso GrassMaster Open Philadelphia Eagles 2003 [20]
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 93,607 Los Angeles, California Santa Ana Bermuda Grass Open Los Angeles Rams 1923 [21]
Lucas Oil Stadiumdouble-dagger 67,000 Indianapolis, Indiana FieldTurf Classic HD Retractable Indianapolis Colts 2008 [22]
M&T Bank Stadium 71,008 Baltimore, Maryland Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass Open Baltimore Ravens 1998 [23]
Mercedes-Benz Superdomedagger 73,000 New Orleans, Louisiana UBU Sports Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf[24] Fixed New Orleans Saints 1975 [25]
MetLife Stadium 82,500 East Rutherford, New Jersey UBU Sports Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf[26] Open New York Giants
New York Jets		 2010 [27]
New Era Field 71,608 Orchard Park, New York A-Turf Titan 50 (artificial)[28] Open Buffalo Bills 1973 [28]
Nissan Stadium 69,143 Nashville, Tennessee TifSport Bermuda Grass Open Tennessee Titans 1999 [29]
NRG Stadiumdouble-dagger 72,220 Houston, Texas UBU Sports Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf [30] Retractable Houston Texans 2002 [31]
Oakland Alameda Coliseum 56,063 Oakland, California Tifway II Bermuda Grass Open Oakland Raiders 1966 [32]
Paul Brown Stadium 65,515 Cincinnati, Ohio UBU Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf Open Cincinnati Bengals 2000 [33]
Qualcomm Stadium 70,561 San Diego, California Bandera Bermuda Grass Open San Diego Chargers 1967 [34]
Raymond James Stadium 65,890 Tampa, Florida Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass Open Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1998 [35]
Soldier Field 61,500 Chicago, Illinois Kentucky Bluegrass Open Chicago Bears 1924[nb 1] [36]
Sports Authority Field at Mile High 76,125 Denver, Colorado Kentucky Bluegrass Open Denver Broncos 2001 [37]
University of
Phoenix Stadiumdouble-dagger		 63,400 Glendale, Arizona Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass Retractable Arizona Cardinals 2006 [38]
U.S. Bank Stadiumdagger 66,655 Minneapolis, Minnesota UBU Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf[39] Fixed Minnesota Vikings 2016 [40]

Map of current stadiums

Additional stadiums

Image Stadium Capacity Location Playing surface Roof type Event(s) Opened Ref(s)
Camping World Stadium 65,000 Orlando, Florida AstroTurf GameDay Grass 3D Open Pro Bowl 1936
Estadio Azteca 95,500 Mexico City, Mexico Grass Open NFL International Series 1966
Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium 22,364 Canton, Ohio FieldTurf Classic HD Open Hall of Fame Game 1938 [41]
Twickenham Stadium 75,000[nb 2] London, England Desso GrassMaster Open NFL International Series 1909 [42]
Wembley Stadiumdouble-dagger 86,000[nb 3] London, England Desso GrassMaster Partially retractable NFL International Series 2007

Future stadiums

Under construction
Stadium Capacity Location Playing
surface		 Roof type Team(s)/Events Opening Ref(s)
City of Champions Stadium 80,000 Inglewood, California Artificial turf Open Los Angeles Rams 2019
Mercedes-Benz Stadiumdouble-dagger 71,000 Atlanta, Georgia Artificial turf Retractable Atlanta Falcons 2017 [43]
Northumberland Development Project 61,000 London, England Artificial turf Open NFL International Series 2018 [44]
Proposed
Stadium Team Location Ref(s)
Las Vegas Raiders Stadiumdagger Las Vegas Raiders Paradise, Nevada
New Era Field II Buffalo Bills Buffalo, New York
San Diego Stadium San Diego Chargers San Diego, California

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Soldier Field opened in 1924; Bears became tenants in 1971; playing field and seating bowl renovated in 2003.
  2. ↑ Twickenham Stadium seating reduced from 82,000 for NFL games
  3. ↑ Wembley Stadium seating reduced from 90,000 for NFL games

References

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