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Newest Stadiums in the NFL

SoFi Stadium, scheduled to open in 2020. It is the home of the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers

Allegiant Stadium, scheduled to open in 2020. It is the home of the Las Vegas Raiders

This article is a list of current National Football League stadiums, sorted by capacity, their locations, their first year of usage, and home teams. Although the National Football League (NFL) has 32 teams, there are only 30 full-time NFL stadiums because the New York Giants and New York Jets share MetLife Stadium, and the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers share SoFi Stadium.

The newest full-time NFL stadiums are SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, home of the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers, and Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, home of the Las Vegas Raiders, which will both open for the 2020 season. Soldier Field in Chicago is the oldest, having opened in 1924.

The NFL uses several other stadiums on a regular basis in addition to the teams' designated regular home sites. In England, two London venues—Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Wembley Stadium—are contracted to host a combined four games per season, as part of the NFL International Series which runs through 2020. Estadio Azteca in Mexico City hosted NFL International Series games in 2016, 2017, and 2019, and is under contract to host one game per season through 2021. In addition, Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio, is the location of the annual exhibition Pro Football Hall of Fame Game. Since 2016, Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida has hosted the Pro Bowl.

The majority of current NFL stadiums have sold naming rights to corporations. As of the upcoming 2020 season, only five of the league's 30 stadiums—Arrowhead Stadium, Bills Stadium, Lambeau Field, Paul Brown Stadium, and Soldier Field—do not use a corporate-sponsored name.

Stadium characteristics[edit]

Stadiums represent a considerable expense to a community, and thus their construction, use, and funding often enter 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[edit]

With a peak capacity of over 100,000 spectators, AT&T Stadium has the highest capacity of any NFL stadium, while MetLife Stadium has the highest listed seating capacity at 82,500. The smallest stadium is Soldier Field with a capacity of 61,500.

In their normal configurations, all of the league's 30 stadiums have a seating capacity of at least 60,000 spectators; of those, a majority (17) have fewer than 70,000 seats, while eight have between 70,000 and 80,000 and five can seat 80,000 or more. In contrast to college football stadiums, the largest of which can and regularly do accommodate over 100,000 spectators, no stadium in the league currently has a listed seating capacity of more than 82,500. 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. The policy has been suspended since 2015; from then until 2019, several teams were playing in temporary facilities with capacities far larger than a normal stadium, and in 2020, social distancing mandates prohibited teams from selling out their stadiums. 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. In normal circumstances, all NFL stadiums are all-seaters.

Legend[edit]

Denotes stadium with a fixed roof.

Denotes stadium with a retractable roof.

List of current stadiums[edit]

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.

Name	Capacity	Location	Surface	Roof type	Team(s)	Opened	Ref(s)
Allegiant Stadium	65,000	Paradise, Nevada	Grass	Fixed	Las Vegas Raiders	2020	^[3]
Arrowhead Stadium	76,416	Kansas City, Missouri	Bermuda grass	Open	Kansas City Chiefs	1972	^[4]
AT&T Stadium	80,000	Arlington, Texas	Hellas Matrix Turf	Retractable	Dallas Cowboys	2009	^[5]^[6]
Bank of America Stadium	75,523	Charlotte, North Carolina	Bermuda grass	Open	Carolina Panthers	1996	^[7]
Bills Stadium	71,608	Orchard Park, New York	A-Turf Titan 50^[8]	Open	Buffalo Bills	1973	^[8]
CenturyLink Field	69,000	Seattle, Washington	FieldTurf Revolution 360^[9]	Open	Seattle Seahawks	2002	^[10]
Empower Field at Mile High	76,125	Denver, Colorado	Kentucky bluegrass	Open	Denver Broncos	2001	^[11]
FedExField	82,000	Landover, Maryland	Bermuda grass	Open	Washington Football Team	1997	^[12]
FirstEnergy Stadium	67,895	Cleveland, Ohio	Kentucky bluegrass	Open	Cleveland Browns	1999	^[13]^[14]
Ford Field	65,000	Detroit, Michigan	FieldTurf Classic HD^[9]	Fixed	Detroit Lions	2002	^[15]
Gillette Stadium	66,829	Foxborough, Massachusetts	FieldTurf CORE^[9]	Open	New England Patriots	2002	^[16]
Hard Rock Stadium	65,326	Miami Gardens, Florida	Platinum TE Paspalum	Open	Miami Dolphins	1987	^[17]
Heinz Field	68,400	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Kentucky bluegrass	Open	Pittsburgh Steelers	2001	^[18]
Lambeau Field	81,441	Green Bay, Wisconsin	Desso GrassMaster^[19]	Open	Green Bay Packers	1957	^[20]
Levi's Stadium	68,500	Santa Clara, California	Bermuda grass / Perennial Ryegrass mixture	Open	San Francisco 49ers	2014	^[21]
Lincoln Financial Field	69,596	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Desso GrassMaster^[22]	Open	Philadelphia Eagles	2003	^[23]
Lucas Oil Stadium	67,000	Indianapolis, Indiana	Shaw Sports Momentum Pro	Retractable	Indianapolis Colts	2008	^[24]
M&T Bank Stadium	71,008	Baltimore, Maryland	Bermuda grass	Open	Baltimore Ravens	1998	^[25]
Mercedes-Benz Stadium	71,000	Atlanta, Georgia	FieldTurf Revolution^[26]	Retractable	Atlanta Falcons	2017	^[27]
Mercedes-Benz Superdome	73,208	New Orleans, Louisiana	FieldTurf Revolution 360^[9]	Fixed	New Orleans Saints	1975	^[28]
MetLife Stadium	82,500	East Rutherford, New Jersey	UBU Sports Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf^[29]	Open	New York Giants New York Jets	2010	^[30]
Nissan Stadium	69,143	Nashville, Tennessee	Bermuda grass	Open	Tennessee Titans	1999	^[31]
NRG Stadium	72,220	Houston, Texas	Hellas Matrix Turf^[32]	Retractable	Houston Texans	2002	^[33]
Paul Brown Stadium	65,515	Cincinnati, Ohio	UBU Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf	Open	Cincinnati Bengals	2000	^[34]
Raymond James Stadium	65,890	Tampa, Florida	Bermuda grass	Open	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	1998	^[35]
SoFi Stadium	70,240	Inglewood, California	Hellas Matrix Turf	Fixed	Los Angeles Rams Los Angeles Chargers	2020	^[36]
Soldier Field	61,500	Chicago, Illinois	Kentucky bluegrass	Open	Chicago Bears	1924^{[nb 1]}	^[37]
State Farm Stadium	63,400	Glendale, Arizona	Bermuda grass	Retractable	Arizona Cardinals	2006	^[38]
TIAA Bank Field	69,132	Jacksonville, Florida	Bermuda grass	Open	Jacksonville Jaguars	1995	^[39]
U.S. Bank Stadium	66,655	Minneapolis, Minnesota	UBU Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf^[40]	Fixed	Minnesota Vikings	2016	^[41]

Map of current stadiums[edit]

Allegiant
Stadium Arrowhead
Stadium AT&T
Stadium Bank of America
Stadium Bills
Stadium CenturyLink
Field Empower Field
at Mile High FedEx
FieldFirstEnergy
StadiumFord
Field Gillette
Stadium Hard Rock
Stadium Heinz
Field Lambeau
Field Levi's
StadiumLincoln Financial FieldLucas Oil
Stadium
M&T Bank StadiumMercedes-Benz
Stadium Mercedes-Benz
Superdome MetLife
Stadium Nissan
Stadium NRG
Stadium Paul Brown
Stadium Raymond James
Stadium SoFi
Stadium Soldier
Field State Farm
Stadium TIAA Bank
Field U.S. Bank
Stadium

Additional stadiums[edit]

Stadium	Capacity	Location	Surface	Roof type	Event(s)	Opened	Ref(s)
Allegiant Stadium	65,000	Paradise, Nevada	Grass	Fixed	Pro Bowl	2020	^[3]
Estadio Azteca	87,523^[42]	Mexico City, Mexico	Grass	Open	NFL Mexico Game	1966
Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium	22,364	Canton, Ohio	FieldTurf Classic HD	Open	Hall of Fame Game	1938^{[nb 2]}	^[43]
Wembley Stadium	86,000^{[nb 3]}	London, England	Desso GrassMaster	Partially retractable	NFL London Games	2007
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium	62,062	London, England	Artificial turf	Open	NFL London Games	2019	^[44]