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I was playing around home and road won-lost data for stadiums, and was curious about which stadiums who have hosted the most regular season NFL games. I know the list is not 100 percent correct, as teams (particularly in the 30's thru 50's) occasionally played a game in a different city, as Buffalo hosted a number of regular season games in 30's and 40's. I don't make it a point to keep up with the current name of every active stadium; in most cases it is the first corporate sponsor name for the stadium and not the current one. An asterisk denotes an active stadium.

RANK STADIUM GAMES
1 Giants St 492
2 J Murphy St 385
T3 Clev Municipal 1 367
T3 Los Ang Col 367 *
5 Arrowhead 357 *
6 Ralph Wilson 352 *
7 Lambeau 345 *
8 Candlestick 340
9 Superdome 329 *
10 Mile High 307

11 Oakland Col 300 *
12 Texas St 293
13 Soldier Fd 1 270
14 RFK St 266
15 Wrigley Fd 254
16 Metrodome 253
17 Pro Player 247 *
18 Veterans St 246
19 Schaefer 237
20 Three Rivers 236

21 Balt Memorial 234
22 Riverfront 228
23 Tiger St 224
24 Astrodome 218
25 Silverdome 209
26 Georgia Dome 200
27 Fulton County 193
28 RCA Dome 192
29 Polo Grounds 185
T30 Alltel 184 *
T30 TWA Dome 184

T32 Erickson 176 *
T32 Kingdome 176
T34 Kezar 170
T34 Tampa St 170
36 FedEX Fd 168 *
T37 PSINet 160 *
T37 Raymond James 160 *
T39 Busch 2 159
T39 Orange Bowl 159

T41 Adelphia Col 152 *
T41 Clev Mun 2 152 *
43 Metropolitan St 151
T44 Shea St 148
T44 Yankee St 148
T46 Paul Brown 144 *
T46 Sun Devil St 144
48 Griffith St 143
T49 Heinz Fd 136 *
T49 Invesco 136 *

51 Seahawks St 129 *
T52 Ford Fd 128 *
T52 Gillette 128 *
T52 Reliant 128 *
55 Mil County St 126
56 G B City St 125
T57 Lincoln 120 *
T57 Soldier Fd 2 120 *
59 War Memorial 118
60 Anaheim St 116

61 Metlife 112 *
62 Forbes Fd 106
63 Shibe Pk 104
64 Cotton Bowl 102
65 Comiskey 1 98
66 Cardinals St 96 *
67 Fenway Pk 95
68 Ebbets Fd 91
69 Franklin Fd 88
70 Lucas Oil 80 *

71 Cowboys St 72 *
72 KC Mem 63
73 Pitt St 59
74 Tulane St 56
T75 Balboa St 42
T75 Sportsman's Pk 42
77 Titan St 39
78 Jeppersen 35
79 Levi's 32 *
80 F Youell Fd 28

81 Husky St 27
82 Phil JFK 23
T83 Nickerson 21
T83 Pgh Municipal 21
T83 Rice St 21
87 Babe Ruth St 20
88 Pgh Baker Bowl 18
T90 Cle Lg Pk 2 17
T90 Phi Baker Bowl 17

T92 Liberty Bowl 16
T92 TCF Bank 16
94 Nippert 14
95 Yale Bowl 12
96 Crosley Fd 9
T97 Champaign 8
T97 Clemson St 8
T97 Mercedes Benz 8 *
T97 StubHub Center 8 *
T97 US Bank 8 *

T102 Alumni St 7
T102 Harvard St 7
T104 Pgh Shibe 5
T104 Univ St 5
T106 Shaw 4
T106 LSU St 4
108 Alamo Dome 3

p-f-r has a list too. Not sure how accurate it is. It can be sortable by games played.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/stadiums/

ChrisBabcock wrote:p-f-r has a list too. Not sure how accurate it is. It can be sortable by games played.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/stadiums/

I was doing my list from 1933-2017, and didn't break out the UK games. This is the PFR list, which is from 1920-2017, which is much better than the one I came up with:

Giants Stadium 492
Soldier Field 411
Qualcomm Stadium 398
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 393
Cleveland Municipal Stadium 387
Lambeau Field 368
Candlestick Park 368
Arrowhead Stadium 364
New Era Field 355
Mercedes-Benz Superdome 344
Wrigley Field 335
Mile High Stadium 320
Texas Stadium 313
Oakland Coliseum 313
RFK Memorial Stadium 278
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) 261
Mall of America Field 261
Veterans Stadium 257
Tiger Stadium 257
Hard Rock Stadium 257
Three Rivers Stadium 254
Polo Grounds 244
Foxboro Stadium 242
Cinergy Field 234
Houston Astrodome 223
Pontiac Silverdome 212
Georgia Dome 208
RCA Dome 199
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium 194
Seattle Kingdome 187
EverBank Field 184
Bank of America Stadium 183
Orange Bowl 177
Houlihan's Stadium 176
FedExField 171
Kezar Stadium 170
Yankee Stadium 169
Edward Jones Dome 168
M&T Bank Stadium 165
Raymond James Stadium 164
Busch Memorial Stadium 163
Metropolitan Stadium 162
Forbes Field 161
Nissan Stadium 156
FirstEnergy Stadium 151
Shea Stadium 150
Heinz Field 149
Gillette Stadium 149
Paul Brown Stadium 147
Sun Devil Stadium 145
Sports Authority Field at Mile High 145
Griffith Stadium 145
CenturyLink Field 139
Comiskey Park 138
City Stadium 137
NRG Stadium 134
Ford Field 131
MetLife Stadium 130
Lincoln Financial Field 129
War Memorial Stadium 127
Milwaukee County Stadium 125
Anaheim Stadium 118
Ebbets Field 115
Cotton Bowl 107
Shibe Park 105
University of Phoenix Stadium 102
Fenway Park 91
Franklin Field 89
Lucas Oil Stadium 86
AT&T Stadium 76
Frankford Stadium 75
Kansas City Municipal Stadium 64
Tulane Stadium 60
Cycledrome 57
Pitt Stadium 55
Busch Stadium (Sportsman's Park) 46
Balboa Stadium 45
Wisconsin State Fair Park 41
Jeppesen Stadium 37
University of Detroit Stadium 33
Levi's Stadium 33
Minersville Park 32
Braves Field 31
League Park 30
Normal Park 28
Frank Youell Field 28
Universal Stadium 26
Thompson's Stadium 26
Lakeside Park 25
Borchert Field 25
Philadelphia Municipal Stadium 23
Douglas Park 23
Bison Stadium 23
Rice Stadium 22
Horlick Legion Field 21
Husky Stadium 19
Wembley Stadium 18
U.S. Bank Stadium 18
TCF Bank Stadium 18
Baker Bowl 16
Nippert Stadium 14
Nicollet Park 14
Yale Bowl 12
Bellevue Park 12
Triangle Park 11
Buffalo Baseball Park 11
Hagemeister Park 9
Alumni Stadium 9
Vanderbilt Stadium 8
StubHub Center 8
Mercedes-Benz Stadium 8
Memorial Stadium (Clemson) 8
Memorial Stadium (Champaign) 8
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium 8
East Hartford Velodrome 8
Neil Park 7
Harvard Stadium 7
General Field 7
Duluth Athletic Park 7
Crosley Field 7
Swayne Field 6
Rogers Centre 6
Muehlebach Field 6
Edgerton Park 6
Rose Bowl 5
Luna Park 5
League Park 5
Knights of Columbus Stadium 5
Tiger Stadium (LSU) 4
Shaw Stadium 4
Bosse Field 4
West Side Athletic Club Field 3
Twickenham Stadium 3
Staley Field 3
Rubber Bowl 3
Newark Schools Stadium 3
Marquette Stadium 3
Azteca Stadium 3
Armory Park 3
Alamo Dome 3
Velodrome 2
Temple Stadium 2
Stanford Stadium 2
Erie Stadium 2
Wooster Avenue Stadium 1
Turner Field 1
Point Stadium 1
Parkway Field 1
Nash Employees' Field 1
Mills Stadium 1
Memorial Stadium (Minnesota) 1
Loyola Stadium 1
Lincoln Park 1
Legion Field 1
Laidley Field 1
Kinsley Park 1
Grant Field 1
Dyche Stadium 1
DePaul Field 1
Corcoran Field 1
Clarkin Field 1
Chicago Stadium 1
California Memorial Stadium 1
Broadmoor Stadium 1
Breese Stevens Field 1
Archbold Stadium 1

Great list! The big question is how many of them have you been in?

There are 166 on the list and I believe I've been in 26 - although only 6 for NFL/AFL games - with one more
(Franklin Field) scheduled for this fall.
The others were for baseball, basketball, college football or Olympics (soccer, athletics, baseball, basketball)
and four of them were just walk thru - no events going on when I was there.

Rupert Patrick wrote:

ChrisBabcock wrote:p-f-r has a list too. Not sure how accurate it is. It can be sortable by games played.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/stadiums/

I was doing my list from 1933-2017, and didn't break out the UK games. This is the PFR list, which is from 1920-2017, which is much better than the one I came up with:

Giants Stadium 492
Soldier Field 411
Qualcomm Stadium 398
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 393
Cleveland Municipal Stadium 387
Lambeau Field 368
Candlestick Park 368
Arrowhead Stadium 364
New Era Field 355
Mercedes-Benz Superdome 344
Wrigley Field 335
Mile High Stadium 320
Texas Stadium 313
Oakland Coliseum 313
RFK Memorial Stadium 278
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) 261
Mall of America Field 261
Veterans Stadium 257
Tiger Stadium 257
Hard Rock Stadium 257
Three Rivers Stadium 254
Polo Grounds 244
Foxboro Stadium 242
Cinergy Field 234
Houston Astrodome 223
Pontiac Silverdome 212
Georgia Dome 208
RCA Dome 199
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium 194
Seattle Kingdome 187
EverBank Field 184
Bank of America Stadium 183
Orange Bowl 177
Houlihan's Stadium 176
FedExField 171
Kezar Stadium 170
Yankee Stadium 169
Edward Jones Dome 168
M&T Bank Stadium 165
Raymond James Stadium 164
Busch Memorial Stadium 163
Metropolitan Stadium 162
Forbes Field 161
Nissan Stadium 156
FirstEnergy Stadium 151
Shea Stadium 150
Heinz Field 149
Gillette Stadium 149
Paul Brown Stadium 147
Sun Devil Stadium 145
Sports Authority Field at Mile High 145
Griffith Stadium 145
CenturyLink Field 139
Comiskey Park 138
City Stadium 137
NRG Stadium 134
Ford Field 131
MetLife Stadium 130
Lincoln Financial Field 129
War Memorial Stadium 127
Milwaukee County Stadium 125
Anaheim Stadium 118
Ebbets Field 115
Cotton Bowl 107
Shibe Park 105
University of Phoenix Stadium 102
Fenway Park 91
Franklin Field 89
Lucas Oil Stadium 86
AT&T Stadium 76
Frankford Stadium 75
Kansas City Municipal Stadium 64
Tulane Stadium 60
Cycledrome 57
Pitt Stadium 55
Busch Stadium (Sportsman's Park) 46
Balboa Stadium 45
Wisconsin State Fair Park 41
Jeppesen Stadium 37
University of Detroit Stadium 33
Levi's Stadium 33
Minersville Park 32
Braves Field 31
League Park 30
Normal Park 28
Frank Youell Field 28
Universal Stadium 26
Thompson's Stadium 26
Lakeside Park 25
Borchert Field 25
Philadelphia Municipal Stadium 23
Douglas Park 23
Bison Stadium 23
Rice Stadium 22
Horlick Legion Field 21
Husky Stadium 19
Wembley Stadium 18
U.S. Bank Stadium 18
TCF Bank Stadium 18
Baker Bowl 16
Nippert Stadium 14
Nicollet Park 14
Yale Bowl 12
Bellevue Park 12
Triangle Park 11
Buffalo Baseball Park 11
Hagemeister Park 9
Alumni Stadium 9
Vanderbilt Stadium 8
StubHub Center 8
Mercedes-Benz Stadium 8
Memorial Stadium (Clemson) 8
Memorial Stadium (Champaign) 8
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium 8
East Hartford Velodrome 8
Neil Park 7
Harvard Stadium 7
General Field 7
Duluth Athletic Park 7
Crosley Field 7
Swayne Field 6
Rogers Centre 6
Muehlebach Field 6
Edgerton Park 6
Rose Bowl 5
Luna Park 5
League Park 5
Knights of Columbus Stadium 5
Tiger Stadium (LSU) 4
Shaw Stadium 4
Bosse Field 4
West Side Athletic Club Field 3
Twickenham Stadium 3
Staley Field 3
Rubber Bowl 3
Newark Schools Stadium 3
Marquette Stadium 3
Azteca Stadium 3
Armory Park 3
Alamo Dome 3
Velodrome 2
Temple Stadium 2
Stanford Stadium 2
Erie Stadium 2
Wooster Avenue Stadium 1
Turner Field 1
Point Stadium 1
Parkway Field 1
Nash Employees' Field 1
Mills Stadium 1
Memorial Stadium (Minnesota) 1
Loyola Stadium 1
Lincoln Park 1
Legion Field 1
Laidley Field 1
Kinsley Park 1
Grant Field 1
Dyche Stadium 1
DePaul Field 1
Corcoran Field 1
Clarkin Field 1
Chicago Stadium 1
California Memorial Stadium 1
Broadmoor Stadium 1
Breese Stevens Field 1
Archbold Stadium 1

Maybe I'm just missing it ... Canisius College Villa?

Great list! The big question is how many of them have you been in?

Sadly, just 3. Ralph Wilson Stadium, War Memorial Stadium & the Edward Jones Dome. I've been in the parking lot at Candlestick.

John Grasso wrote:Great list! The big question is how many of them have you been in?

Among stadiums that have hosted pro football games (either been in or visited):

Three Rivers (for Pirates games and concerts, not football), been to Heinz Field and walked around the outer perimeter of the stadium but it was closed. I also visited Indianapolis in 2005 and walked around the perimeter of the Hoosier Dome but it was closed.

I've been to the original Cleveland Municipal Stadium and walked around it, that was a couple months after the Browns played their final game there. My brother and I walked around the exterior, looking for loose brick souvenirs because I knew they were going to tear it down. With the help of my brother's tools, I found a couple loose hunks of brick that found their way into my backpack. I've been to the new Cleveland Stadium when we were there for the 2014 PFRA convention.

Been to a couple Lions games at the Pontiac Silverdome, four Steelers-Bengals games at Paul Brown Stadium, Tiger Stadium (saw a number of baseball games there, but the Lions had long since moved to the Silverdome), LA Coliseum (saw a LA Raiders-Seahawks game in 1983), Anaheim Stadium (saw an Angels game), Clemson Death Valley (never saw a Clemson football game but the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd have had concerts there over the years and I saw them, and I wasn't living in SC the year the Panthers were playing there), Fulton County Stadium (for a number of Braves games, never for a Falcons game).

Saw a Yankees game at Yankee Stadium back in 2006. Went to Green Bay for the 2016 PFRA convention and went all over the stadium including going on top of the stadium, which I was told was the highest point in the city of Green Bay. (I was standing on top of the stadium and asked which direction downtown Green Bay was because I could not see any buildings, and asked the tour guide where downtown was.) Visited my folks when they moved to Boston in the early 90's, and me and my father took a walking tour of Boston, which included a walk around the perimeter of Fenway Park, which was closed. Saw a Bills-Raiders game at Rich Stadium in December 1993 with my brother, we would have froze to death had he not snuck a bottle of peach schnapps under his jacket. Saw Dan Marino play a game at Pitt Stadium in 1980.

I see Turner Field on the list
What game was played there?

I'm surprised to see I've been in six of those stadiums (and all of them are local):
Kezar, Candlestick, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Oakland Alameda Colosseum , California Memorial Stadium and Stanford Stadium (all but Cal and Stanford for NFL Games and the Colosseum for USFL games, too... and I got to play on the field at Kezar once long ago...)

And I've been in Fawcett Stadium but not for a game... which I didn't see on the list (List is for regular season games only, I assume?).
Surprised to see the Alamo Dome in there... I forgot they played games there... I was there when it was being built... does that count?

I have watched NFL games at:

- Houston Astrodome: 1 preseason
- Cowboys/AT&T Stadium. (Arlington): 9 regular season
- Azteca Stadium (Mexico City): 4 preseason, 2 regular season


Plus, I have been in these current stadiums:
- Cleveland
- Lambeau Field, Green Bay
- Seattle
- Soldier Field, Chicago


And to these stadiums who hosted an NFL team:
- Fenway Park, Boston
- Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego
- Orange Bowl, Miami

As for Canada, I gave gone to CFL games to Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa, plus I have been to Montreal's Olympic Stadium, who hosted a preseason game. Another stadiums I have been who hosted preseason games are Barcelona's Olympic Stadium and Canton's Fawcett Stadium.