MetLife Stadium
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| Former names | New Meadowlands Stadium (2010–2011) |
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| Location | 1 MetLife Stadium Drive, East Rutherford, New Jersey 07073 United States |
| Coordinates | 40°48′49″N 74°4′28″W / 40.81361°N 74.07444°WCoordinates: 40°48′49″N 74°4′28″W / 40.81361°N 74.07444°W |
| Public transit | Meadowlands Station: |
| Owner | MetLife Stadium Company, LLC (New York Jets 50%/New York Giants 50%) |
| Capacity | 82,500 |
| Surface | UBU Sports' Speed Series S5-M (2013–present) FieldTurf (2010–2012) |
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| Broke ground | September 5, 2007 |
| Opened | April 10, 2010 |
| Construction cost |
$1.6 billion ($1.74 billion in 2016 dollars) |
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360 Architecture EwingCole Rockwell Group Bruce Mau Design, Inc. |
| Project manager | Hammes Company Sports Development |
| Structural engineer | Thornton Tomasetti |
| General contractor | Skanska AB |
| Main contractors | Structal–Heavy Steel Construction, a division of Canam Group |
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New York Jets (NFL) (2010–present) New York Giants (NFL) (2010–present) |
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MetLife Stadium is an American sports stadium that is located in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It is part of the Meadowlands Sports Complex and serves as the home stadium for two National Football League (NFL) franchises: the New York Giants and the New York Jets. The stadium is owned by the MetLife Stadium Company, a joint venture of the Giants and Jets, who jointly built the stadium using private funds on land owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. The stadium opened as New Meadowlands Stadium in 2010. In 2011, MetLife, an insurance company based in New York City, acquired the naming rights to the stadium. At a construction cost of approximately $1.6 billion, it is the most expensive stadium ever built and is the second-largest stadium in the NFL in terms of seating capacity.
MetLife Stadium is the only NFL stadium shared by two clubs: the Giants and Jets. It and Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, home of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers, are the only current facilities to house two teams from the same sports league in the United States.
As Giants Stadium approached 30 years of age, it was becoming one of the older stadiums in the NFL. The Jets, who had been the lesser tenants at the stadium (which was called simply "The Meadowlands" for Jets games), sought to have their own stadium built in Manhattan proper, the proposed West Side Stadium. Originally intended to be the 85,000-seat main stadium for New York's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, it was designed to be downsized to 75,000 seats for the Jets. However, the West Side Stadium would have required significant public funding, which collapsed in 2005. The Jets then entered into a partnership with the Giants to build a new stadium in which the two teams would be equal partners.
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