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The largest stadiums in the USA

Michigan Stadium is the largest in the United States at 107,601, and the shape of this list is the story: eight university grounds sit above the largest NFL venue on it. Ten stadiums ranked by capacity, every figure attributed to the university, franchise or operator that published it.

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The largest stadiums in the United States by capacity
Stadium City Sport Capacity
Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor American football 107,601
Beaver Stadium University Park American football 106,572
Ohio Stadium Columbus American football 102,780
Kyle Field College Station American football 102,733
Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge American football 102,231
Neyland Stadium Knoxville American football 101,915
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium Austin American football 100,119
Bryant–Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa American football 100,077
MetLife Stadium East Rutherford American football 82,500
AT&T Stadium Arlington American football 80,000
10 sources, last checked 26 August 2026

Dallas Cowboys, accepted · LSU Athletics, accepted · MetLife Stadium, accepted · Ohio State Athletics, accepted · Penn State Athletics, accepted · Texas A&M Athletics, accepted · University of Alabama Athletics, accepted · University of Michigan Athletics, accepted · University of Tennessee Athletics, accepted · University of Texas Athletics, accepted

Why college stadiums dominate

Michigan Stadium at 107,601 and Beaver Stadium at 106,572 both belong to universities. So do Ohio Stadium, Kyle Field, Tiger Stadium, Neyland Stadium, Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium and Bryant–Denny Stadium. These are not new buildings chasing a record; most were laid out in the 1920s and 1930s and have been extended in bowls and decks ever since, on land the university already owned, funded by alumni who were not calculating a return per seat.

A professional owner builds differently. An NFL franchise plays eight regular-season home games and monetises hospitality boxes, sightlines and broadcast rather than raw volume, so there is no commercial reason to pour concrete for seats that fill a handful of times a year. That is why MetLife Stadium and AT&T Stadium, the two professional grounds on this list, sit below the college giants despite being far more recent and far more expensive.

Which is the biggest NFL stadium?

MetLife Stadium, at 82,500. It is shared by two franchises, which is itself unusual, and it is the largest NFL venue by permanent capacity even though it would rank outside the world's top twenty stadiums overall. AT&T Stadium in Arlington is often described as larger, and for a specific event it can be: its published capacity understates what the venue admits once standing-room areas are opened for a one-off. Those are two different measurements, and this list ranks on the permanent figure the venue publishes rather than on an expanded event maximum.

Reading American capacities carefully

Two habits make US figures harder to compare than European ones. College stadiums frequently publish an "official capacity" that is a licensed seating number while routinely announcing attendances above it, because standing areas, student sections and press and hospitality positions are counted differently from seats. And several venues publish an expanded configuration for a championship game or a concert that is not the number the stadium operates at week to week.

This site records what a publisher measured alongside what they counted, which is why some rows here carry a note about the concept behind the figure. Where a venue states a seat count rather than a licensed capacity, or gives a figure for an expanded configuration, the row says so rather than flattening everything into one column of apparently comparable numbers.

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What kind of team plays at the largest stadium in the United States?

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A university team. Michigan Stadium holds 107,601 for about six home games a year, and eight university grounds sit above the largest NFL venue on this list.

University of Michigan, read — source

How these figures are sourced

Every capacity on this page comes from the stadium, the team or the owner — not from an aggregator or an encyclopedia. Where a venue publishes no official figure, or publishes two that disagree, the row shows what each source says with its publisher attached rather than picking the convenient one. Full attribution sits beneath the table, and the editorial method behind those marks sets out what verified and accepted mean.

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