A tour of the world’s most iconic stadiums and arenas. ThrillZing covers the history, capacity, signature moments, and fan experience of the venues where championship games and unforgettable events happen.
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/ August 29, 2026
Stanford Stadium sits on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, and has served as the home of Stanford Cardinal football since it opened on November 19, 1921, with a Big Game victory by rival California. The original horseshoe-shaped stadium was a massive concrete bowl
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/ August 29, 2026
Yale Bowl is a college football stadium in New Haven, Connecticut, that has hosted the Yale Bulldogs continuously since it opened on November 21, 1914. Designed by Charles A. Ferry with Sperry Engineering Co., it was the first bowl-shaped stadium built in the United States,
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/ August 29, 2026
LaVell Edwards Stadium sits on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, at an elevation of about 4,649 feet, making it one of the highest-elevation stadiums in major college football. It has served as the home field for BYU Cougars football since it
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/ August 28, 2026
Arlington Stadium stood in Arlington, Texas, as the home of the Texas Rangers from 1972 until 1993. Originally opened on April 23, 1965 as Turnpike Stadium, a minor-league facility built for $1.9 million to house the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs, it was expanded and renamed after
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/ August 28, 2026
Kezar Stadium sits tucked into the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, a modest 10,000-seat venue today that once held nearly six times that many fans. The original stadium broke ground in 1924 and was dedicated on May 2, 1925, quickly becoming
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/ August 26, 2026
Camping World Stadium sits in the West Lakes neighborhood of downtown Orlando, Florida, on a site that has hosted football since 1936. Originally built as Orlando Stadium under a Works Progress Administration project, the venue grew from 10,000 seats into today’s roughly 60,000-capacity bowl game
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/ August 25, 2026
Estadio Centenario rises in Montevideo’s Parque Batlle neighborhood as the sport’s most historically significant ground. Built in just eight months during 1929 and 1930, it was rushed to completion so Uruguay could host the very first FIFA World Cup, opening its gates on July 18,
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/ August 25, 2026
Red Bull Arena in Leipzig, Germany, is the home ground of Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and one of the most distinctive stadium builds in European football. Rather than tearing down the old venue, planners constructed an entirely new, modern football-only stadium inside the concrete shell
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/ August 25, 2026
Veltins-Arena opened on August 13, 2001, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, replacing the old Parkstadion as the home of FC Schalke 04. Originally named Arena AufSchalke before brewery Veltins acquired naming rights in 2005, the stadium was built at a cost of about €191 million and quickly
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/ August 24, 2026
De Kuip, officially known as Stadion Feijenoord, opened on March 27, 1937, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and has served as the home ground of Feyenoord ever since. Designed by architect Leendert van der Vlugt, the stadium earned its nickname, which translates to “the Tub,” thanks to
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/ August 24, 2026
Estádio José Alvalade is the home ground of Sporting CP, one of Portugal’s biggest football clubs, sitting in the Alvalade district of Lisbon. It opened on August 6, 2003, replacing the club’s old stadium of the same name, and was built as part of the
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/ August 24, 2026
The Hawthorns is the home stadium of West Bromwich Albion, standing in the town of West Bromwich in the Sandwell borough of the West Midlands, England. Built in just four months and opened on September 3, 1900, it was the first Football League ground constructed
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/ August 23, 2026
City Ground has stood on the banks of the River Trent in West Bridgford since September 3, 1898, making it one of English football’s most enduring homes. Nottingham Forest F.C. built the ground after the city’s new civic status inspired its name, and the club
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/ August 23, 2026
Turf Moor has been the home of Burnley Football Club since February 1883, making it the second-longest continuously used football ground in English professional football, trailing only Preston North End’s Deepdale. Tucked into a residential corner of Burnley, Lancashire, the ground has watched the club
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/ August 22, 2026
loanDepot Park is the home ballpark of the Miami Marlins, sitting at 501 Marlins Way in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, just west of downtown. Designed by the architecture firm Populous, the stadium opened for the 2012 season as Marlins Park after roughly $634 million in
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/ August 22, 2026
Sutter Health Park sits in West Sacramento, California, right across the river from downtown Sacramento. It opened on May 15, 2000 as Raley Field, built for about $46.5 million without public tax money, and has served as the home ballpark of the Sacramento River Cats,
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/ August 22, 2026
The Scotiabank Saddledome has anchored Calgary’s Stampede Park since opening on October 15, 1983, built to replace the aging Stampede Corral and to serve as the centerpiece venue for the 1988 Winter Olympics. Its distinctive reverse hyperbolic paraboloid roof, evoking a cowboy’s saddle in a
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/ August 22, 2026
SAP Center at San Jose opened its doors on September 7, 1993, as the San Jose Arena, giving the young San Jose Sharks franchise a permanent home just a few years after the team’s 1991 debut. Built at a cost of about $162.5 million and
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/ August 22, 2026
Rogers Place is the downtown Edmonton arena that has served as home ice for the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL since it opened on September 8, 2016. Built to replace the aging Northlands Coliseum (formerly Rexall Place), the arena anchors the Ice District, a massive
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/ August 22, 2026
Rogers Centre rises beside the CN Tower in downtown Toronto as one of the most recognizable ballparks in Major League Baseball. It opened on June 3, 1989 as SkyDome, a name it carried until Rogers Communications bought the venue and renamed it in 2005, and
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