NRG Stadium

NRG Stadium in Houston, home of the NFL's Texans, was the league's first facility with a retractable roof — a climate-controlled answer to Gulf Coast summers that lets the building host football, rodeo, and mega-events year-round. Its steel-and-glass bowl seats over 72,000 and sits inside the sprawling NRG Park complex alongside the Astrodome. Game days blend Texas-sized tailgating with the roar of a building built to keep the heat and humidity outside, and on soccer nights Houston's large and vocal Latin American fan base turns the lower bowl into a wall of noise. It's one of the rare U.S. venues built to feel equally at home hosting a Super Bowl, a Final Four, or a World Cup match.

Opened in 2002 as Reliant Stadium, it replaced the Astrodome as Houston's premier arena and later took the NRG name in a 2014 naming-rights deal. It has hosted two Super Bowls — Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004 and Super Bowl LI in 2017, the latter the Patriots' historic 25-point comeback over the Falcons — plus the NCAA men's and women's Final Fours and the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, one of the world's largest rodeo events. Houston's deep and diverse soccer culture makes it a natural fit for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, where the stadium joins the tournament's U.S. host-city slate.