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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/ September 9, 2026
The Mineirão, officially named Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto, opened on September 5, 1965, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, becoming one of Brazil’s largest and most important football venues. Built with a distinctive pseudo-ellipse bowl inspired by studies of Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã, the stadium quickly…
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/ September 9, 2026
Stade Vélodrome has anchored Marseille’s Sainte-Marguerite neighborhood since June 13, 1937, growing from a cycling-and-football venue into one of France’s largest and loudest stadiums. Designed by architect Henri Ploquin, it has served as the permanent home of Olympique de Marseille for nearly nine decades, hosting…
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/ September 7, 2026
Stadio Diego Armando Maradona is the home of SSC Napoli, rising on a hillside in the Fuorigrotta district of Naples, Italy. Opened in December 1959 as the Stadio del Sole, it was renamed Stadio San Paolo in 1963 and took its current name in December…
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/ September 7, 2026
Stadio Olimpico is the largest sports stadium in Rome, Italy, sitting inside the Foro Italico sports complex on the banks of the Tiber River below Monte Mario. Opened on May 17, 1953, it has served for over seven decades as the shared home of Serie…
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/ September 4, 2026
Allianz Stadium is the home ground of Juventus FC in Turin, Italy, opened in September 2011 on the site of the demolished Stadio delle Alpi. Known as Juventus Stadium until Allianz acquired naming rights in 2017, it was the first stadium in Italy to be…
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/ September 4, 2026
The Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium has stood in the Nervión district of Seville, Spain, since it opened on September 7, 1958, giving Sevilla FC one of the oldest continuously used top-flight grounds in the country. Named after a former club president who helped secure the land…
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/ September 3, 2026
Franklin Field sits at 33rd and Spruce Streets on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus in Philadelphia, and it holds a claim no other college football venue can match: it’s the oldest stadium of its kind still in continuous use. The horseshoe-shaped stadium opened on April…
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/ September 3, 2026
The biggest stadiums in the United States don’t belong to the NFL — they belong to college football. Eight campus venues seat more than 100,000 people, a scale no pro stadium touches in its standard configuration, and the gap at the very top is enormous…
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/ September 3, 2026
Every NFL stadium ranked by capacity — all 30 buildings that host the league’s 32 teams, straight from ThrillZing’s venue database. Two pairs share a home: the Giants and Jets at MetLife Stadium, and the Rams and Chargers at SoFi. MetLife Stadium tops the league’s…
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/ September 3, 2026
A decade of venue-building, ranked newest first — the 25 most recently opened major stadiums, arenas, and halls in North America (15,000 seats and up), led by the Buffalo Bills’ new Highmark Stadium, which opened in Orchard Park in 2026. The list captures a genuine…
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/ September 3, 2026
Every NHL home arena ranked by capacity — all 32 buildings, from ThrillZing’s venue database. Hockey arenas are the most standardized venues in major-league sports, which makes the outliers at both ends all the more interesting. The Bell Centre in Montreal tops the list at…
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/ September 3, 2026
All 30 NBA home arenas ranked by capacity, pulled straight from ThrillZing’s venue database. The spread is tighter than in any other major league — arenas are built to a formula — but the top and bottom still stand about 4,000 seats apart. The United…
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/ September 3, 2026
Every big-league ballpark ranked by seating capacity, straight from ThrillZing’s venue database — all 30 current MLB home parks, from the biggest bowl in baseball down to the temporary home the Athletics are filling in Sacramento. The headline hasn’t changed in decades: Dodger Stadium holds…
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/ September 2, 2026
Mestalla Stadium has stood at the heart of Valencia CF since May 20, 1923, making it one of the oldest top-flight football grounds still in regular use in Spain. Officially known as Estadio de Mestalla, it takes its name from a centuries-old irrigation canal that…
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/ September 2, 2026
Estádio do Dragão is the home football ground of FC Porto, rising on the eastern edge of Porto, Portugal since it opened on November 16, 2003. Built to replace the club’s old Estádio das Antas and to serve as one of the host venues for…
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/ September 1, 2026
Aloha Stadium opened on September 12, 1975, in Hālawa, Hawaii, and quickly became the island’s premier venue for football, baseball, and concerts. Built by the Luckman Partnership for roughly $37 million, the 50,000-seat stadium was engineered with a striking gimmick: four massive seating sections that…
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/ August 31, 2026
Yes, Legion Field is still standing — and still hosting games. Nearly a century after it opened in Birmingham, Alabama, the stadium known as “The Old Gray Lady” remains one of the Deep South’s most storied football addresses, even though its marquee tenants have long…
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/ August 31, 2026
Harvard Stadium has stood along the Charles River in Boston’s Allston neighborhood since 1903, making it the oldest stadium structure still in use for college football in the United States. Built for the Harvard Crimson, the horseshoe-shaped venue was also the nation’s first large permanent…
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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 matchup against rival California. The original horseshoe-shaped stadium was a massive concrete bowl…
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/ August 29, 2026
Yale Bowl is the 61,446-seat stadium in New Haven, Connecticut, where Yale has played every home football game since it opened on November 21, 1914 — the answer to “where does Yale play football” for well over a century now, and one of the oldest…
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