AT&T Stadium

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AT&T Stadium
The Cowboys Stadium (2009)
The Cowboys Stadium (2009)
Earlier names

Cowboys Stadium (2009-2013)

Data
place 1 AT&T Way Arlington , Texas 76011
United StatesUnited States
Coordinates 32 ° 44 '52 "  N , 97 ° 5' 34"  W Coordinates: 32 ° 44 '52 "  N , 97 ° 5' 34"  W.
owner City of Arlington
start of building September 20, 2005
opening May 27, 2009
surface artificial grass
costs 1.3 billion US dollars
architect HKS Inc.
capacity 80,000 to 108,713 seats
(depending on the seat configuration)
Societies)
Events

The AT & T Stadium is an American football - stadium with closable roof in the US city of Arlington in the state of Texas , located between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth . It serves as the venue for the Dallas Cowboys' NFL games .

The stadium has the largest unsupported interior space and, from Mitsubishi Electric, has two of the largest 46.3 x 21.9 m HD screens in the world. It has 80,000 seats and up to 30,000 additional standing places - depending on the type of event.

On July 25, 2013, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced that the Dallas Cowboys had reached an agreement with the telecommunications company AT&T to acquire the naming rights to the stadium. The Arlington arena is now called AT&T Stadium . The company pays each year about 17 to 19 million US dollars to the Cowboys .

Events

Country singer George Strait held the first public concert at Cowboys Stadium on June 6, 2009. The first sporting event wasn't a football game , but a football game between Costa Rica and Guadeloupe . It was the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup . Immediately afterwards the encounter between Mexico and Haiti took place, which was sold out with 82,252 spectators.

The largest crowd at a football game came on September 21, 2009. The game Dallas Cowboys against the New York Giants (31:33) presented with 105,121 visitors a NFL - Regular-season on -record.

In addition, on February 14, 2010, the NBA All-Star Game (East vs. West 141: 139) took place in front of 108,713 spectators and thus the largest backdrop of all time for a basketball game.

On February 6, 2011, the Super Bowl XLV between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers was played here. In front of 103,219 spectators, the Packers defeated the Steelers with 31:25 points. The 1980 Super Bowl XIV attendance record at Rose Bowl Stadium , Pasadena , was missed by 766 spectators.

On January 20, 2015, WWE announced that the WrestleMania 32 wrestling event would take place on April 3, 2016 at Arlington Stadium. 101,763 spectators attended the event. This broke the attendance record of 1987 at WrestleMania 3 with 93,173 spectators in what was then the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit .

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Web links

Commons : AT&T Stadium  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Cowboys Stadium now called AT&T Stadium after deal , Nfl.com of July 25, 2013 (English).
  2. Report: AT&T naming rights for Dallas Cowboys' stadium $ 17–19M a year , Dallasnews.com, July 26, 2013.
  3. NFL Matchday Two, Spox.com, September 21, 2009.
  4. ↑ A huge record backdrop at the NBA Allstar Game , 20min.ch on February 15, 2010.
  5. Super Bowl XLV match report ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Nfl.com (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nfl.com
  6. No new Super Bowl attendance record, espn.go.com (English).
  7. wwe.com: AT&T Stadium to host WrestleMania 32 article from January 20, 2015 (English).
  8. wwe.com: WWE achieves record number of visitors Article from April 3, 2016