Some cities wait a lifetime for a building like this. Inglewood got the biggest one in the country. SoFi Stadium opened on September 8, 2020, on the old Hollywood Park racetrack grounds at 1001 South Stadium Drive, and it instantly reset the bar for what a stadium could be.
It is the home of two NFL teams, the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers, and it was built at a reported cost of roughly 5 to 6 billion dollars, which makes it one of the most expensive sports venues ever constructed. The standard setup seats 70,240 people, with 260 executive suites, and it can expand past 100,000 for the marquee events.
It anchors Hollywood Park, a sprawling mixed-use development rebuilt on the former racetrack grounds, so the stadium is really the center of a whole district of plazas, restaurants, offices and a man-made lake rather than a parking lot with a building in the middle.
What makes it different
SoFi is not a dome and it is not fully open either. A translucent canopy made of 302 ETFE panels floats over the bowl, and 46 of those panels open to let the Southern California air move through. Under that roof hangs the signature piece: the Infinity Screen, a double-sided, 4K HDR video board that weighs about 2.2 million pounds and carries roughly 80 million pixels. Wherever you sit, the picture finds you.
Who and what plays here
The event list reads like a history book being written in real time. SoFi hosted Super Bowl LVI in February 2022, where the Rams won at home, and it will host Super Bowl LXI in February 2027. It staged the College Football Playoff National Championship in January 2023 and WrestleMania 39 across two April nights that same year, and the CONCACAF Gold Cup final in July 2023. Music belongs here too. In August 2023, Taylor Swift played six sold-out nights, the longest single-city run of that tour, and Beyonce brought three nights of the Renaissance tour.
The stadium is also a centerpiece of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with eight matches scheduled, and the 2028 Summer Olympics, which will bring opening and closing ceremonies here.
Visitor tip
Buy stadium parking ahead of time or skip it entirely and take Metro to the stadium shuttle, because game-day and show-day traffic around Century Boulevard is real. Get there early and walk the American Airlines Plaza and the surrounding Hollywood Park lake before kickoff. The pre-event scene outside is part of the show, and it is free.