Lost football venues
Professional and college football stadiums that are gone or no longer host the sport. The list includes open-air bowls, shared baseball-football stadiums and the domes built from the 1960s through the 1990s.
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View on map →Denny Field (Washington)
Denny Field was the University of Washington's football field from 1895 until November 1920, when the team moved to the new Husky Stadium.
Douglas Park (Rock Island)
Douglas Park in Rock Island, Illinois, was home to the Rock Island Independents, a charter NFL team, from 1907 through 1925. The ballpark survives and is used for youth and American Legion baseball.
DU Stadium
DU Stadium, known as Hilltop Stadium, was the University of Denver's football stadium from 1926 until the school dropped football in 1961. It was demolished starting in 1971.
Eastern Park
Eastern Park in East New York was built for the 1890 Players' League and was the Brooklyn National League club's home through 1897. The site is now industrial.
Ebbets Field
Ebbets Field was the Brooklyn Dodgers' home in Flatbush from 1913 through 1957. It was razed in 1960 and replaced by an apartment complex.
Exposition Park (Pittsburgh)
Exposition Park on Pittsburgh's North Shore was the Pirates' home from 1891 to mid-1909 and hosted the first modern World Series in 1903. The site is now mostly parking.
Floyd Casey Stadium
Floyd Casey Stadium, originally Baylor Stadium, was Baylor University's football home from 1950 to 2013. It was imploded on May 14, 2016.
Fouts Field
Fouts Field was the University of North Texas's football stadium from 1952 to 2010. It was replaced by Apogee Stadium and fully demolished in 2018.
Foxboro Stadium
Foxboro Stadium was a low-cost concrete-and-aluminum stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. It was the Patriots' first permanent home, from 1971 through the 2001 season.
Frank Youell Field
Frank Youell Field was a temporary stadium near downtown Oakland where the AFL Raiders played from 1962 to 1965. It was demolished in 1969 for Laney College parking.
Frankford Stadium (Yellow Jacket Field)
Frankford Stadium was the home of the NFL's Frankford Yellow Jackets from 1924 to 1930. A fire badly damaged it on July 27, 1931, and it was later demolished.
Georgia Dome
The Georgia Dome was a cable-supported domed stadium in downtown Atlanta. From 1992 to 2017 it was home to the Falcons and hosted two Super Bowls, Olympic events and three men's Final Fours.
Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium was an open-air stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands. It was home to the New York Giants from 1976 and to the New York Jets from 1984 until both teams moved next door to MetLife Stadium in 2010.
Gilmore Field
Gilmore Field was the Fairfax District home of the Pacific Coast League Hollywood Stars from 1939 to 1957, a small ballpark beside the Farmers Market that drew a celebrity crowd.
Gilmore Stadium
Gilmore Stadium was an 18,000-seat Fairfax District stadium built by oilman Earl Gilmore in 1934, best known for midget auto racing and professional football before CBS Television City replaced it.
Gonzaga Stadium
Gonzaga Stadium was a 10,000-seat football stadium on the Gonzaga University campus, opened in 1922. Gonzaga dropped football after 1941, high school games ended in 1947 and the seating was demolished in 1949.
Goodwin Stadium
Goodwin Stadium was Arizona State's football stadium from 1936 to 1958 and was later used by Tempe High School until 1969. Its stands were razed in 1976 and 1978.
Gordon and Koppel Field
Gordon and Koppel Field in Kansas City was home to the Federal League's Packers in 1914-15. It closed in 1917, and the site is now parkland and businesses.
Greenlee Field
Greenlee Field was the Hill District ballpark Gus Greenlee built in 1932 for his Pittsburgh Crawfords, recognized as the first Negro league stadium owned and built by African Americans.
Griffith Stadium
Griffith Stadium was Washington's major league ballpark from 1911 to 1961. It stood on the site of an earlier park near Howard University and was replaced by Howard University Hospital.
Hagemeister Park
Hagemeister Park in Green Bay was the Green Bay Packers' first home field, used from their founding in 1919 through the 1922 season. East High School was built on the site beginning in 1923.
Hamtramck Stadium
Hamtramck Stadium was built in 1930 for Detroit's Negro league teams and is one of the few surviving Negro league ballparks. It has been restored for community baseball.
Hara Arena
Hara Arena in Trotwood, outside Dayton, was home of the IHL's Dayton Gems from 1964. It closed in 2016 and was demolished in 2020-21 after tornado damage.
HemisFair Arena
HemisFair Arena opened with San Antonio's 1968 world's fair and was home to the Spurs from 1973 to 1993. It was demolished in 1995 to expand the convention center.