New NFL Stadiums: Every Project From 2026 to 2031

Buffalo opened the NFL’s newest stadium in June 2026. The next scheduled openings are Tennessee in 2027, Jacksonville’s reconstructed venue in 2028, Cleveland in 2029, Washington in 2030 and Kansas City in 2031. Those dates are current project targets, not guarantees.

New NFL stadium timeline

This tracker separates completed buildings, active construction, confirmed projects and proposals. It also distinguishes a new stadium from a rebuild of an existing one.

Opening target	Team	Project	Capacity	Status in August 2026
2026	Buffalo Bills	Highmark Stadium	60,108	Opened June 2026
2027	Tennessee Titans	New Nissan Stadium	About 60,000	Under construction
2028	Jacksonville Jaguars	Stadium of the Future	63,000+, expandable past 70,000	Existing stadium reconstruction
2029	Cleveland Browns	New Huntington Bank Field	67,500 seats + 2,500 standing	Under construction
2030	Washington Commanders	RFK-site stadium	Not yet published by team	Confirmed design and delivery target
2031	Kansas City Chiefs	New Kansas stadium	About 70,000	Confirmed, design stage
Not fixed	Chicago Bears	Fixed-roof stadium	Not fixed	Proposal/site decision unresolved

The list includes Jacksonville because it changes almost every part of the fan experience, but it is not a ground-up replacement. Costs and delivery dates will be updated as teams publish contracts and construction milestones.

Buffalo Bills: Highmark Stadium opened in 2026

The Bills’ new Highmark Stadium opened in Orchard Park in June 2026, across Abbott Road from the team’s former home. It is an open-air, natural-grass venue with 60,108 seats.

That capacity makes it the smallest regular NFL stadium, a deliberate shift toward wider concourses, improved sightlines and more premium space rather than maximizing the seat count. The project was announced near $1.4 billion, while completion reporting put the cost around $2.1 billion to $2.2 billion after increases.

Buffalo is no longer a future project. Pages written before summer 2026 that still call it “under construction” are out of date.

Tennessee Titans: New Nissan Stadium in 2027

The Titans are building an enclosed stadium on Nashville’s East Bank beside the current Nissan Stadium. The target is February 2027, leaving time to prepare for the 2027 NFL season.

The roughly 60,000-seat design uses a translucent roof and is budgeted at about $2.1 billion. Its enclosed format opens the city to winter and weather-sensitive events. NFL owners selected Nashville to host Super Bowl LXIV in 2030, giving the building its first scheduled Super Bowl three years after opening.

The old Nissan Stadium will be demolished after the move, and the surrounding riverfront site will be redeveloped.

Jacksonville Jaguars: Stadium of the Future in 2028

Jacksonville is transforming EverBank Stadium rather than constructing a separate replacement. Work began in 2025 and the finished venue is scheduled to open in August 2028.

The plan includes a protective canopy, wider concourses, new seating and public park space. Base capacity will exceed 63,000, with expansion beyond 70,000 for college games and other large events.

Construction produces an unusual schedule:

• the 2026 Jaguars capacity drops to roughly 42,500;
• the team plays its 2027 home season at Camping World Stadium in Orlando;
• Jacksonville reopens the completed stadium for 2028.

Calling this a brand-new stadium is imprecise. The structure and site remain, but the scale of the reconstruction earns it a place in a future-venue tracker.

Cleveland Browns: New Huntington Bank Field in 2029

The Browns broke ground in Brook Park on 30 April 2026. Their enclosed New Huntington Bank Field is planned for the 2029 season near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

The club lists 67,500 seats plus 2,500 standing spaces for football, with event configurations ranging from 6,000 to 75,000. A translucent roof, a sunken bowl and a 176-acre mixed-use district are central to the plan.

The reported cost reached about $2.6 billion in 2026. Litigation over part of Ohio’s public contribution remains a project risk, so the opening year should be treated as a target until work is further advanced. If completed near that figure, it will rank behind SoFi but above every other current venue in our most expensive NFL stadiums comparison.

Washington Commanders: RFK-site stadium in 2030

Washington plans a roofed stadium on the former RFK Stadium site in the District of Columbia. HKS’s initial design uses a transparent sculpted dome, surrounding parkland and a continuous colonnade intended to connect the building with the Anacostia River and the city plan.

The team says construction is anticipated to finish in 2030. Its current public design page does not state a final football capacity, so this tracker leaves that cell open rather than repeating an unofficial estimate.

Enabling work, approvals and utilities must move on a compressed schedule to meet 2030. The project is more advanced than a casual proposal, but less certain than Tennessee or Cleveland, where construction is already visible.

Kansas City Chiefs: new Kansas stadium in 2031

On 22 July 2026, the Chiefs published the first concepts for a new stadium in Kansas City, Kansas. The $3 billion building is targeted for 2031 and is expected to hold about 70,000.

Its fully enclosed roof will use more than 400,000 square feet of translucent ETFE panels above the playing surface. The bowl borrows the steep, noise-focused geometry associated with Arrowhead, and the site plan retains more than 20,000 parking spaces for tailgating.

This is a move across the Missouri-Kansas state line, not a move out of the Kansas City market. Arrowhead remains the Chiefs’ home until the replacement is ready.

Chicago Bears: still a proposal without a date

The Bears intend to build a fixed-roof stadium, but location, public infrastructure arrangements and a construction timetable have moved repeatedly. The team owns the former Arlington International Racecourse site in Arlington Heights and has also explored other options.

Without a final site decision and published opening schedule, assigning a year would create false precision. The Bears will move into the confirmed timeline only when approvals, financing and delivery are concrete enough to support it.

New builds versus major renovations

Several large NFL projects do not create a new stadium. Jacksonville is the clearest example in this timeline, and other teams are improving existing venues through phased work.

Project type	What changes	Example
New build	New structure on a new or adjacent site	Bills, Titans, Browns
Replacement in same market	New venue replaces current home	Commanders, Chiefs
Structural transformation	Existing building retained and extensively rebuilt	Jaguars
Phased renovation	Venue stays in service through upgrades	Panthers and other current projects

The distinction affects cost, temporary relocation and environmental claims. It also matters to fans searching for the next stadium opening: Jacksonville returns to a transformed old address, while Tennessee moves into a separate building.

How the new stadiums change NFL capacity

New does not mean bigger. Buffalo reduced its listed seating capacity, and Tennessee’s 60,000-seat target is smaller than the current Nissan Stadium. Teams increasingly allocate more floor area to circulation, clubs, suites, food service and adaptable event space.

Cleveland and Kansas City sit closer to the league’s middle by seats. Their roofs and expandable event setups matter more commercially than topping a capacity table. The current NFL stadium capacity ranking shows how all 30 active venues compare, while the largest US stadiums explains why college football still owns the country’s biggest permanent crowds.

What can still change?

Opening dates move when financing, litigation, permits, material supply or site work changes. Capacity can also fall between a concept rendering and the final fire and occupancy approvals.

For that reason, this page treats:

• an opened stadium as complete;
• visible construction as under construction;
• a team-announced site and target as confirmed but still conditional;
• a location or financing debate as a proposal.

Future World Cup or Super Bowl layouts may use different net capacities from NFL games. The World Cup 2026 stadium guide demonstrates how event infrastructure changed the numbers at existing NFL venues. More project and capacity coverage lives on the stadiums hub.