Major League Soccer (MLS) is the premier professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. The league has 29 teams in 29 stadiums as of the 2023 season: 26 in the United States and 3 in Canada; a 30th team is planned to enter in 2025. At the time of the league's inauguration in 1996, MLS teams used multi-purpose stadiums, often shared with National Football League (NFL) or college football teams. Because of lower attendance, these stadiums had rows of seats covered in tarps to limit capacity. Starting in 1999 with the Columbus Crew's construction of Historic Crew Stadium, the league has constructed soccer-specific stadiums which are tailor-made for soccer and which have smaller capacity. Today, the majority of MLS stadiums are soccer-specific stadiums. While the league's early stadiums relied heavily on public financing, several modern soccer-specific stadiums have been majority-funded by clubs and their owners.[1]
The league's soccer-specific stadiums, with the exception of Providence Park in Portland, Oregon, have grass playing surfaces. The remaining stadiums with artificial turf surfaces are mostly used by teams sharing their venues with other sports, including American football.[2] Pitch sizes range from a width of 70 yards (64 m) used by New York City FC at Yankee Stadium and the Houston Dynamo at Shell Energy Stadium, to 80 yards (73 m) used by the LA Galaxy at Dignity Health Sports Park.[3]
As with the other major North American sports leagues, the majority of MLS stadiums have sold their naming rights to corporations. BC Place, Citypark, Soldier Field, and Yankee Stadium are the only current MLS stadiums without a corporate-sponsored name. (Citypark is a temporary placeholder name while St. Louis City SC seeks a new stadium naming rights sponsor.[4])
Allianz Field
America First Field
BC Place
BMO Stadium
Children's Mercy Park
Dick's Sporting Goods Park
Dignity Health Sports Park
CityPark
Lumen Field
PayPal Park
Providence Park
Q2 Stadium
Shell Energy Stadium
Toyota Stadium
Snapdragon Stadium (2025)
Audi Field
Bank of America Stadium
BMO Field
Chase Stadium
Geodis Park
Gillette Stadium
Inter&Co Stadium
Lower.com Field
Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Red Bull Arena
Saputo Stadium
Soldier Field
Subaru Park
TQL Stadium
Yankee Stadium
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Location of MLS team stadiums: Western Conference Eastern Conference Future
^Schneider, Keith (June 30, 2020). "As Major League Soccer Expands, Teams Are Getting New Homes". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
^Ruthven, Graham (April 10, 2020). "Fake plastic unease: Can MLS become a world-class league on artificial turf?". The Guardian. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
^Wallerson, Ryan (May 28, 2015). "Yankee Stadium Dimensions Cramping New York City FC's Style". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 9, 2023.
^Marrilees, Annika; Kukujan, Steph (October 25, 2022). "Centene backs out of St. Louis soccer stadium naming deal". stltoday.com. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
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