This list ranks all 30 current Major League Baseball stadiums by the year they opened, from the league’s oldest surviving ballpark down to its newest. Every park below is an active MLB home field today, and the year listed marks when the venue first hosted games — not when it was last renovated.
Fenway Park has been standing since 1912, and it isn’t close to being caught. Wrigley Field is the only other park from before the 1960s still in use, opening two years later in 1914. After that the list jumps nearly half a century to Dodger Stadium in 1962 — a gap that says a lot about how many ballparks were built, and then replaced, in between.
Fenway and Wrigley: the two survivors
Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the only ballparks on this list built before World War II, and both predate the era of MLB expansion, night games, and eventually retractable roofs entirely. They’ve been rebuilt piece by piece over the decades — new seating, lighting, video boards — but the original steel-and-concrete bones and the odd-shaped lots they were squeezed into are still the reason they play like nowhere else, from the Green Monster in left field at Fenway to the ivy-covered brick walls at Wrigley.
No other park comes close to that vintage. The next-oldest stadium on the list, Dodger Stadium, didn’t open until 1962 — a 48-year gap that reflects a long mid-century stretch when almost no new ballparks were built, followed by a wave of multipurpose ‘cookie-cutter’ stadiums in the 1960s and 70s that have since mostly been torn down.
| # | Venue | Team | Opened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fenway Park | Boston Red Sox | 1912 |
| 2 | Wrigley Field | Chicago Cubs | 1914 |
| 3 | Dodger Stadium | Los Angeles Dodgers | 1962 |
| 4 | Angel Stadium | Los Angeles Angels | 1966 |
| 5 | Kauffman Stadium* | Kansas City Royals | 1973 |
| 6 | Rogers Centre | Toronto Blue Jays | 1989 |
| 7 | Tropicana Field* | Tampa Bay Rays | 1990 |
| 8 | Rate Field | Chicago White Sox | 1991 |
| 9 | Oriole Park at Camden Yards | Baltimore Orioles | 1992 |
| 10 | Progressive Field | Cleveland Guardians | 1994 |
| 11 | Coors Field | Colorado Rockies | 1995 |
| 12 | Chase Field | Arizona Diamondbacks | 1998 |
| 13 | T-Mobile Park | Seattle Mariners | 1999 |
| 14 | Comerica Park | Detroit Tigers | 2000 |
| 15 | Daikin Park | Houston Astros | 2000 |
| 16 | Oracle Park | San Francisco Giants | 2000 |
| 17 | Sutter Health Park* | Athletics | 2000 |
| 18 | American Family Field | Milwaukee Brewers | 2001 |
| 19 | PNC Park | Pittsburgh Pirates | 2001 |
| 20 | Great American Ball Park | Cincinnati Reds | 2003 |
| 21 | Citizens Bank Park | Philadelphia Phillies | 2004 |
| 22 | Petco Park | San Diego Padres | 2004 |
| 23 | Busch Stadium | St. Louis Cardinals | 2006 |
| 24 | Nationals Park | Washington Nationals | 2008 |
| 25 | Citi Field | New York Mets | 2009 |
| 26 | Yankee Stadium | New York Yankees | 2009 |
| 27 | Target Field | Minnesota Twins | 2010 |
| 28 | loanDepot Park | Miami Marlins | 2012 |
| 29 | Truist Park | Atlanta Braves | 2017 |
| 30 | Globe Life Field | Texas Rangers | 2020 |
* An announced or under-construction replacement is on the way — see Replacement Watch below.
Replacement Watch: What’s Next
Tropicana Field*: The Rays return for 2026 after hurricane repairs, but the franchise’s long-term ballpark question remains open.
Kauffman Stadium*: The Royals are actively pursuing a new ballpark to succeed Kauffman in the early 2030s.
Sutter Health Park*: A temporary home — the Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark is under construction with a targeted 2028 opening.
Rate Field: The White Sox have floated a move to The 78 development in downtown Chicago, though the project remains unresolved.
What ‘oldest’ means for a ballpark
Age here is measured by first year of play, not by how original the building feels once you’re inside. Fenway and Wrigley have had generations of upgrades, and even a park like Rate Field (opened 1991) or Progressive Field (1994) has gone through concourse and clubhouse overhauls since it opened. What doesn’t change is the footprint and sightlines set on opening day — that’s what gives an old ballpark its personality and quirks, and it’s why visiting Fenway or Wrigley still feels different from visiting a park built in the last 25 years.
The rest of the list traces baseball’s shift toward retro-classic, downtown, baseball-only ballparks — a trend that took off after Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened in 1992 and reshaped how nearly every stadium built since has been designed.
The stadiums that surprise people
Four current MLB parks — Comerica Park, Daikin Park, Oracle Park, and Sutter Health Park — all opened in the same year, 2000, part of a construction boom that also produced several of the parks just above and below them on this list. On the other end, Globe Life Field, home of the Rangers, is the newest park in MLB at 2020, replacing a stadium that had opened barely two decades earlier — a reminder that ‘old’ in baseball terms can mean anything from over a century to under 25 years, depending on the market.
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Oldest MLB Ballparks FAQs
What is the oldest MLB ballpark still in use?
Fenway Park in Boston, home of the Red Sox, opened in 1912 and is the oldest active Major League Baseball stadium.
What is the second-oldest ballpark in MLB?
Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, opened in 1914 — two years after Fenway Park.
Which MLB stadium is the newest?
Globe Life Field in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers, is the newest ballpark on this list, opening in 2020.
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