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MetLife Stadium is an open-air multi-purpose stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States.It opened in 2010, replacing Giants Stadium, and serves as the home for the New York Giants and New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL).
Giants Stadium was the first major league sporting venue in New Jersey (though the Brooklyn Dodgers had played seven home games at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City in 1956 and 1957), and its success, along with that of the Giants in the 1980s was a major impetus behind increased pride and enthusiasm among New Jersey residents.
It is the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets of the NFL and is one of two stadiums home to two NFL franchises (SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California is the other). It was the home of the New York Guardians of the XFL, MetLife Stadium hosted Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014 and will host matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
MetLife Stadium: New York Giants New York Jets: East Rutherford, New Jersey: 82,500 FieldTurf Core [32] Open 2010 [33] Nissan Stadium: Tennessee Titans: Nashville, Tennessee: 69,143 Matrix Helix Turf with organic infill [34] Open 1999 [35] Northwest Stadium: Washington Commanders: Landover, Maryland: 62,000 Bermuda grass: Open 1997 [36] [37 ...
[25] [26] Giants Stadium, which hosted the Giants and Jets until 2009, was also the original home of the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. East Rutherford is the only municipality with fewer than 10,000 residents to have been home to five professional sports teams simultaneously, [ 27 ] as well as the smallest city to host any ...
View of a night-time baseball game at Yankee Stadium between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. This is a list of professional and semi-professional sports teams based in the New York metropolitan area, including from New York City, Long Island, Lower Hudson Valley, Northern and Central New Jersey, and parts of Western Connecticut.
The new stadium is a 50/50 partnership between the Giants and Jets, and while the stadium is owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority on paper, the two teams jointly built the stadium using private funds, and administer it jointly through New Meadowlands Stadium Corporation.
This category contains articles about sports venues in New York City.All of the venues in Category:sports venues in Long Island (which covers Nassau and Suffolk Counties) and some of the venues in Category:sports venues in New York (state) (which covers the rest of New York State), Category:sports venues in Connecticut and Category:sports venues in New Jersey are also in the New York ...