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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/ June 16, 2026
Eden Gardens, established in 1864 and located in the Maidan area of Kolkata, West Bengal, is one of the oldest and largest cricket stadiums in the world. Often called the ‘Mecca of Indian Cricket,’ the ground is operated by the Cricket Association of Bengal and
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/ June 16, 2026
Lord’s Cricket Ground, located in St John’s Wood, London, is universally known as the Home of Cricket. Established by entrepreneur Thomas Lord in 1814 — his third ground, after earlier sites near Dorset Square and the Regent’s Canal — it has served as the headquarters
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/ June 16, 2026
Stamford Bridge is the home stadium of Chelsea Football Club, situated in Fulham in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Originally opened on 28 April 1877 as an athletics ground, it predated Chelsea FC itself by nearly three decades. When businessman Gus Mears acquired
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/ June 16, 2026
Levi’s Stadium opened on July 17, 2014, replacing Candlestick Park as the home of the San Francisco 49ers. Located in Santa Clara, California — about 40 miles south of San Francisco in the heart of Silicon Valley — the $1.3 billion facility was designed by
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/ June 16, 2026
Emirates Stadium is a purpose-built football ground located in Holloway, north London, and has served as the home of Arsenal Football Club since it opened on 22 July 2006. Designed by architects Populous (then known as HOK Sport) at a cost of around £390 million,
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/ June 16, 2026
Stade de France opened on 28 January 1998 in Saint-Denis, just north of Paris, and quickly established itself as the centerpiece of French sport. Built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup at a cost of €364 million, the stadium holds 81,338 spectators for football and
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/ June 16, 2026
U.S. Bank Stadium opened on July 22, 2016 in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the new home of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. Built at a cost of $1.061 billion, the stadium replaced the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome and was designed by HKS,
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/ June 16, 2026
Lucas Oil Stadium opened on August 16, 2008, in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, replacing the RCA Dome as the home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts. Built at a cost of approximately $720 million and designed by HKS, Inc., the facility spans about 1.8 million square feet
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/ June 16, 2026
Hard Rock Stadium opened on August 16, 1987, in Miami Gardens, Florida, as the home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins. Built for $115 million and originally named Joe Robbie Stadium, the venue cycled through several identities over the decades before Hard Rock Cafe Inc. secured
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/ June 16, 2026
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, universally nicknamed “The Swamp,” is the home of the University of Florida Gators football team in Gainesville, Florida. The stadium opened on November 8, 1930, as a 21,769-seat facility called Florida Field, and nine decades of expansions have grown it into
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/ June 16, 2026
NRG Stadium is a multi-purpose retractable-roof stadium located at 1 NRG Parkway in Houston, Texas, that opened on August 24, 2002. Built at a cost of approximately $352 million and designed by HOK Sport (now Populous), it became the permanent home of the Houston Texans
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/ June 16, 2026
The Wells Fargo Center opened on August 12, 1996 as the CoreStates Center in South Philadelphia, replacing the aging Spectrum as home of the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) and Philadelphia 76ers (NBA). Built at a cost of $210 million on the former site of John F.
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/ June 15, 2026
Exhibition Stadium — officially the Canadian National Exhibition Stadium and nicknamed ‘The Ex’ — stood on the Exhibition Place grounds along Lake Shore Boulevard West in Toronto, Ontario. Opened on August 5, 1959, it served as home to the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football
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/ June 15, 2026
South End Grounds was the home of Boston’s National League baseball franchise for more than four decades, from 1871 to 1914 — the longest home-field tenure in the franchise’s history. Located at the northeast corner of Columbus Avenue and Walpole Street in Boston’s South End,
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/ June 15, 2026
Huntington Avenue Grounds was a wooden baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, that served as the first home of the Boston Americans — later renamed the Red Sox — from 1901 to 1911. Built for approximately $35,000 on a former circus lot, the park opened on
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/ June 15, 2026
Empower Field at Mile High opened on August 11, 2001, replacing the original Mile High Stadium as the home of the Denver Broncos. Built at a cost of $400.9 million and designed by HNTB and Fentress Architects, the 76,125-seat venue sits at precisely 5,280 feet
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/ June 15, 2026
The Melbourne Cricket Ground, affectionately known as ‘the G’, stands in Yarra Park in East Melbourne as the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the eleven largest venues on earth. First opened in 1853, the ground holds up to 100,024 spectators across
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/ June 15, 2026
Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus football home of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, located in Athens, Georgia. The stadium opened on October 12, 1929, built at a cost of $360,000, and has grown from an initial 30,000-seat bowl into one of college
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/ June 15, 2026
Hilltop Park — officially named American League Park — was a wooden baseball stadium that stood in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, occupying the block bounded by Broadway, 165th Street, and 168th Street. Built in roughly six weeks at a cost of around $75,000
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/ June 15, 2026
Exposition Park stood along the banks of the Allegheny River on Pittsburgh’s North Side — then the independent city of Allegheny — and served as the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates for nearly two decades. Built in 1890 and seating around 16,000 fans, the covered
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