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See also: Chronology of home stadiums for current National Football League teams
Levi's Stadium, the newest stadium in the National Football League.

The following 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 NFL, there are only 31 full-time NFL stadiums because the New York Giants and New York Jets share MetLife Stadium.[1]

The newest NFL stadium is Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, home of the San Francisco 49ers, which opened for the 2014 season.

The NFL uses several other stadiums on a regular basis in addition to the teams' designated regular home sites. The Jacksonville Jaguars have a multi-year agreement to play one regular season home game per year at Wembley Stadium in London, England, as part of the NFL International Series which run through 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, and Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii, is usually the location of the Pro Bowl.

All except six NFL stadiums (Arrowhead Stadium, Georgia Dome, Lambeau Field, Paul Brown Stadium, Ralph Wilson Stadium and Soldier Field being the exceptions) have sold the naming rights to their stadiums to corporations. This list will decrease to five when Mercedes-Benz Stadium opens in 2017 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.[2] 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.[3]

Seating

The New York Giants' and The New York Jets' MetLife Stadium is currently the largest stadium in the NFL by regular seating capacity. AT&T Stadium's capacity can expand past that of MetLife Stadium by means of using temporary seating, which makes AT&T Stadium the only NFL stadium capable of holding 100,000 or more spectators; for regular season games, the stadium is reconfigured so that it only seats 80,000. The smallest full-time NFL stadium is O.co Coliseum, the home of the Oakland Raiders.

All of the NFL's stadiums currently seat between 52,200 and 85,000 (in contrast to college football stadiums, the largest of which can accommodate over 100,000 spectators), with all but O.co Coliseum and TCF Bank Stadium (a temporary home for the Vikings until their new stadium is finished) having over 60,000 seats. 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 prohibits 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. In the opposite direction, the league has a firm minimum on the number of seats an NFL stadium should have; with the exception of the aforementioned Hall of Fame Game, since 1971 the league has not allowed any stadium under 50,000 seats to host an NFL team. In normal circumstances, all NFL stadiums are all-seaters.

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 Stadium Capacity (Seats) Location Playing surface Roof type Team(s) Opened Ref(s)
MetLife Stadium 82,500 East Rutherford, New Jersey UBU Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf Open New York Giants
New York Jets 		2010 [4]
FedEx Field 73,000 Landover, Maryland Latitude 36 Bermuda Grass Open Washington Redskins 1997 [5]
AT&T Stadium 85,000 Arlington, Texas Matrix RealGrass artificial turf[6] Retractable Dallas Cowboys 2009 [7]
Lambeau Field 80,735 Green Bay, Wisconsin Desso GrassMaster Open Green Bay Packers 1957 [8]
Arrowhead Stadium 76,416 Kansas City, Missouri Latitude 36 Bermuda Grass Open Kansas City Chiefs 1972 [9]
Sports Authority Field at Mile High 76,125 Denver, Colorado Kentucky Bluegrass Open Denver Broncos 2001 [10]
Sun Life Stadium 75,540 Miami Gardens, Florida Prescription Athletic Turf (Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass) Open Miami Dolphins 1987 [11]
Bank of America Stadium 73,778 Charlotte, North Carolina Voyager Bermuda Grass[12] Open Carolina Panthers 1996 [13]
Ralph Wilson Stadium 73,079 Orchard Park, New York A-Turf Titan Open Buffalo Bills 1973 [14]
Mercedes-Benz Superdome 73,000 New Orleans, Louisiana UBU Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf Domed New Orleans Saints 1975 [15]
NRG Stadium 71,500 Houston, Texas Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass Retractable Houston Texans 2002 [16]
Georgia Dome 71,250 Atlanta, Georgia FieldTurf Classic HD Domed Atlanta Falcons 1992 [17]
M&T Bank Stadium 71,008 Baltimore, Maryland Shaw Sports Momentum 51 Open Baltimore Ravens 1998 [18]
Qualcomm Stadium 70,561 San Diego, California Bandera Bermuda Grass Open San Diego Chargers 1967 [19]
Lincoln Financial Field 69,596 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Desso GrassMaster Open Philadelphia Eagles 2003 [20]
Nissan Stadium 69,149 Nashville, Tennessee TifSport Bermuda Grass Open Tennessee Titans 1999 [21]
Gillette Stadium 68,756 Foxborough, Massachusetts FieldTurf Revolution Open New England Patriots 2002 [22]
Levi's Stadium 68,500 Santa Clara, California Tifway II Bermuda Grass / Perennial Ryegrass mixture Open San Francisco 49ers 2014 [23]
Heinz Field 68,400 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kentucky Bluegrass Open Pittsburgh Steelers 2001 [24]
FirstEnergy Stadium 67,431 Cleveland, Ohio Kentucky Bluegrass Open Cleveland Browns 1999 [25]
EverBank Field 67,246 Jacksonville, Florida Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass Open Jacksonville Jaguars 1995 [26]
Lucas Oil Stadium 67,000 Indianapolis, Indiana FieldTurf Classic HD Retractable Indianapolis Colts 2008 [27]
CenturyLink Field 67,000 Seattle, Washington FieldTurf Revolution Open Seattle Seahawks 2002 [28]
Edward Jones Dome 66,000 St. Louis, Missouri AstroTurf GameDay Grass 3D Domed St. Louis Rams 1995 [29]
Raymond James Stadium 65,890 Tampa, Florida Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass Open Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1998 [30]
Paul Brown Stadium 65,515 Cincinnati, Ohio UBU Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf Open Cincinnati Bengals 2000 [31]
Ford Field 65,000 Detroit, Michigan FieldTurf Classic HD Domed Detroit Lions 2002 [32]
University of Phoenix Stadium 63,400 Glendale, Arizona Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass Retractable Arizona Cardinals 2006 [33]
Soldier Field 61,500 Chicago, Illinois Kentucky Bluegrass Open Chicago Bears 1924[nb 1] [34]
O.co Coliseum 53,252 Oakland, California Tifway II Bermuda Grass Open Oakland Raiders 1966 [35]
TCF Bank Stadium 52,200 Minneapolis, Minnesota FieldTurf Revolution Open Minnesota Vikings 2009 [36]

Map of current stadiums

Additional stadiums

Image Stadium Capacity Location Playing surface Roof type Event(s) Opened Ref(s)
Wembley Stadium 86,000[nb 2] London, England, United Kingdom Desso GrassMaster Retractable NFL International Series 2007 [37]
Aloha Stadium 50,000 Honolulu, Hawaii UBU Speed Series S5-M Synthetic Turf Open Pro Bowl 1975 [38]
Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium 22,375 Canton, Ohio FieldTurf Classic HD Open Hall of Fame Game 1938 [39]

Future stadiums proposed or under construction

Future stadiums
Stadium Capacity
(Seats) 		+Standing Room/
Expanded seats 		Location Playing
surface 		Roof type Team(s) Opening Ref(s)
U.S. Bank Stadium 65,000 73,000 Minneapolis, Minnesota Turf Domed Minnesota Vikings 2016
Mercedes-Benz Stadium 71,000 75,000 Atlanta, Georgia Turf Retractable Atlanta Falcons 2017
Northumberland Development Project 61,000 61,000 London, United Kingdom Artificial turf Retractable NFL International Series 2018
Proposed stadiums
Stadium Team Location Capacity Opening Ref(s)
Los Angeles Entertainment Center St. Louis Rams Inglewood, California 80,000 2018
Los Angeles Stadium Oakland Raiders & San Diego Chargers Carson, California 65,000 (expandable to 75,000 for Super Bowls) 2019
New St. Louis Riverfront Stadium St. Louis Rams St. Louis, Missouri 62,500 2019
Los Angeles Stadium Relocated Franchise Industry, California 75,000 Unknown
New Buffalo Bills Stadium Buffalo Bills Buffalo, New York Unknown Unknown
San Diego Stadium San Diego Chargers San Diego, California 67,500 (expandable to 73,000 for Super Bowls) 2019
New Washington Redskins Stadium Washington Redskins Washington D.C. Area Unknown Unknown

See also

Notes

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

References

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