Hard Rock Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States, a city north of Miami. It is the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL).
Hard Rock Stadium, officially named Joe Robbie Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Miami, Florida, USA. It is used mostly for American football matches, hosting the home games of the Miami Dolphins, its owner.
Opened on August 16, 1987 with a preseason game between the Dolphins and the Chicago Bears, it replaced the original Orange Bowl, which had 74,476 seats. The seating capacity of the new stadium is currently set at 64,767. The stadium was designed by HOK Sport Venue Event (now Populous) and had a construction cost of $115 million.
A NFL category four stadium and one of the biggest stadiums by capacity in the United States (the biggest in Florida), Hard Rock Stadium hosted several matches of the NFL Super Bowl, including its final, as well as the 2016, 2020, and 2021 finals of the College Football Playoff National Championship. It was elected the most beautiful stadium of America in a 2015 online poll by ESPN.
By its fifteenth birthday, Hard Rock Stadium had welcomed more than 17 million spectators. The stadium is one of the potential venues for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which the United States will co-host along with Canada and Mexico.
