Top 10 Biggest Soccer Stadiums in the United States

Soccer might not be a time-honored American sport, but it has crept upwards to nestle among the country’s top-four sports.

As the sport keeps thriving in the U.S., with the Major League Soccer (MLS) continually adding teams to its franchise, there are new stadiums to visit, thus raising comparison with the EPL.

Many of these stadiums which have played host to the incredible antics the greatest stars in MLS history and continues to do so.

We will now consider the top-10 biggest soccer stadiums in the United States.

Biggest Soccer Stadiums in the United States

10. Toyota Stadium

• Location: Frisco, Dallas
• Capacity: 20,500

 The Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Dallas, opened in 2005 and has since remained in the primary matchday quarters of the two-time MLS U.S. Open Cup champions FC Dallas.

Toyota Stadium replaced FC Dallas’s former home ground, the leased 92,100-capacity Cotton Bowl.

The stadium is part of a sporting complex with seventeen soccer fields, booked more than 95.9% of every year, with annual visits reaching 1.8 million people.

Its south end was extensively renovated in 2018, welcoming multiple upgrades and the National Soccer Hall of Fame Museum.¹

The remodel made the 20,500-capacity stadium the earliest, with a major National Sports Hall of Fame museum incorporated into its structure.

Currently famed as the Toyota Stadium, the facility was initially known as Frisco Soccer & Entertainment Complex. It was also called Pizza Hut Park between 2005 and 2012 when the national pizza chain Pizza Hut held the stadium’s naming rights.

While FC Dallas is the most notable tenant, the soccer-specific Toyota Stadium also hosts the Frisco ISD football, Frisco Bowl (NCAA), NCAA Division I Football Championship, and the National Soccer Hall of Fame event.

9. Q2 Stadium

• Location: Austin, Texas
• Capacity: 20,738

Perhaps not as significant as some of the country’s notable football or baseball arenas, the soccer-specific Q2 Stadium is a beauty.

The 20,738-capacity facility was opened in 2021, making it one of the newest edifices on our list.

Q2 Stadium boasts a 115 by 75-yard (105 by 69-meter) pitch size. Its structure features a modern, sleek, and inclusive design that epitomizes the spirit of the city and its residents.

Undoubtedly, the complex is pretty small considering the time it was built and the growth of the sport for which it was specifically built .

8. Bank of Montreal Stadium (BMO)

• Location: Los Angeles, California
• Capacity: 22,000

The BMO Stadium (formerly known as Banc of California Stadium) is a state-of-the-art sporting facility in one of America’s most beautiful cities.

Home to MLS’s Los Angeles FC and the National Women’s Soccer League’s (NWSL) Angel City FC, the five-year-old arena became the first open-air stadium in Los Angeles since the 1962 baseball Dodger Stadium.

The 22,000-capacity stadium with an 86,000 square-foot pitch was considered big enough to host the 2021 MLS All-Star Game and two group-stage matches in the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

However, the stadium’s design is its highlight, featuring an open-air layout that captures the San Gabriel Mountains and the downtown Los Angeles skyline.

Despite being a soccer-specific stadium owned by Los Angeles FC, the facility has hosted other sporting events, including boxing and lacrosse.

Music and cultural activities have also featured within the premises.

7. PNC Stadium

• Location: Houston, Texas
• Capacity: 22,039

The PNC Stadium is an undeniably stunning masterpiece when illuminated at night, but daylight takes nothing from its magnificence.

While it may struggle to compete in size with its European counterparts, it matches them with a perfect urban soccer stadium design.

The PNC is a multipurpose stadium structured to accommodate MLS and FIFA-standard soccer, American football, lacrosse, Gaelic football, and rugby.

The 22,000+ seats contain thirty-four private suites, 1,100 club seats, and a dedicated supporters stand.

With a pitch size of 115 by 73 yards (105 by 67 meters), Austin FC may boast of the Q2’s slightly larger pitch size. Nevertheless, the PNC Stadium can comfort

ably hold more spectators, offering more crowd support.

6. Red Bull Arena

• Location: Harrison, New Jersey
• Capacity: 25,000

The Red Bull Arena does not feature among the top five largest soccer-specific stadiums in the United States.

However, it boasts the largest roof canopy of all MLS stadiums, with the 322,276 square-foot translucent roof covering all 25,000 seats.

The facility has a 120 by 75-yard pitch, more spacious than those we considered earlier. It also contains 30 luxury suites and 1,000 premium seats.

Red Bull Arena is the home location of MLS’s New York Red Bulls and NWSL’s New Jersey/New York Gotham FC.

The teams doubtlessly enjoy the low, enclosed roof design that holds, amplifies, and reflects crowd noise onto the field.

5. Exploria Stadium

• Location: Orlando, Florida
• Capacity: 25,0000

Last year, the Exploria Stadium hosted the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games opening ceremony.

Moreover, it holds memories as the location for the many USMNT and USWNT games, the NWSL Championship finals, and the 2019 MLS All-Star Game.

Many reasons are behind the stadium’s selection for these grand events, and its status as one of the country’s largest soccer-specific arenas is among these reasons.

The facility is home to MLS’s Orlando City SC and NWSL’s Orlando Pride, accommodating up to 25,000 fans to watch soccer matches on the 120 by 75-yard pitch.

4. Providence Park

• Location: Portland, Oregon
• Capacity: 25,218

While it is not the largest stadium on our list, Providence Park holds the lengthiest history of all the stadiums mentioned here.

The city-owned sporting facility has undergone five renovations: 1956, 1982, 2001, 2011, and 2019. Moreover, it remains the oldest edifice configured as a soccer-specific MLS stadium.

Capable of accommodating 25,218 spectators, the arena’s current soccer tenants are the NWSL’s Portland Thorns FC and MLS’s Portland Timbers.

Providence Park has hosted several U.S. soccer events, including national team and FIFA Women’s World Cup matches, the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the 2014 MLS All-Star Game, and MLS Cup 2021.

3. TQL Stadium

• Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
• Capacity: 25,513

The World Football Summit named the TQL Stadium as the Best Venue of 2022, a testament to the stadium’s state-of-the-art design, striking presence, and location between two historic neighborhoods.²

The 25,513-capacity facility opened in May 2021 and is a soccer-specific stadium that hosts MLS’s FC Cincinnati.

Total Quality Logistics earned the club’s agreement to be the stadium’s naming rights sponsor. However, the ground was called the West End Stadium during construction.

2. Dignity Health Sports Park

• Location: Los Angeles, California
• Capacity: 27,000

Although the twenty-year-old sporting complex is a multi-purpose facility, it was designed specifically for soccer and has since been the home ground of MLS’s LA Galaxy.

Some of soccer’s all-time greats, including David Beckham, Zlatan Ibrahimović, and Robbie Keane have once displayed their mastery on the stadium’s 120 by 75-yard turf.

The 27,000-capacity architectural masterpiece also features an 8,000-seat tennis arena and an outdoor track and field structure with 2,000 permanent seats that are expandable to 20,000.

It underwent renovations in 2017, welcoming seat upgrades, engineered hardwood floors, new furniture, and a configuration that accommodates the NFL’s Chargers’ use of the stadium.

1. Geodis Park

• Location: Nashville, Tennessee
• Capacity: 30,105

We have traveled across Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Portland, and Orlando, but Nashville boasts the largest soccer-specific stadium in the United States.³

The newly opened Geodis Park on 501 Benton Avenue can contain over 30,000 spectators willing to enjoy the beautiful game with the industrial and residential histories of the environment.

Within a year, the stadium has hosted three concerts and two USWNT matches and will host the USMNT vs. Ghana friendly in October.

Geodis Park features an open-air design, six lounges, three clubs, two dozen box suites, and an entry gate for the supporters group.

Wrap Up

Soccer fanship in the United States has grown to 49% of America’s sports fans, according to Daily Mail.⁴

Viewership and other notable commercial figures have also witnessed massive progress.⁵

Therefore, spectator audiences are on the rise, and higher capacity soccer-specific stadiums are needed to accommodate the ever-growing fanbase.

With Geodis Park in Nashville topping the list of biggest soccer stadiums in the united states, can another facility overtake Nashville’s pride in the next few years?