SoFi Stadium is a stadium and entertainment complex in Inglewood, California, United States. It is scheduled to host Super Bowl LVI in February 2022 and the College Football Playoff National Championship in January 2023. During the 2028 Summer Olympics, it will host the opening and closing ceremonies, soccer, and archery. The stadium bowl has open sides and seats 70,240 spectators for most events, with the ability to expand by 30,000 additional seats for larger events. The attached music and theatre venue has a capacity of 6,000 seats and is considered to be separate facilities under one roof.
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SoFi Stadium is a stadium and entertainment complex in Inglewood, California, United States. Opened in September 2020, the stadium serves as the home for the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League. It is scheduled to host Super Bowl LVI in February 2022 and the College Football Playoff National Championship in January 2023. During the 2028 Summer Olympics, it will host the opening and closing ceremonies, soccer, and archery. The facility is a component of Hollywood Park, a master planned neighborhood in development on the site of the former racetrack. The stadium bowl has open sides and seats 70,240 spectators for most events, with the ability to expand by 30,000 additional seats for larger events. The attached music and theatre venue has a capacity of 6,000 seats and is considered to be separate facilities under one roof. Another component of the stadium’s design is an ovular, double-sided 4K HDR video board, the first of its kind, that is suspended from the roof over the field. Most of the complex was demolished in 2014 to make way for new construction with the rest demolished in late 2016 after the Hollywood Park Casino which remained open after the track itself closed moved to a new building. The current stadium was not the first stadium proposed for the site. The site was almost home to an NFL stadium two decades earlier. In May 1995 after the departure of the Rams for St. Louis, the team owners approved, by a 27–1 vote with two abstentions, a resolution supporting a plan to build a USD 200 million, privately funded stadium on property owned by Hollywood Park for theLos Angeles Raiders.
The stadium site was previously home to Betfair Hollywood Park which was a thoroughbred race course from 1938 until it was shut down for racing and training in December 2013. After the site’s former owners gave up on getting a NFL stadium for the mid 2000s, it was sold and planned to be a Walmart Supercenter; however, in 2014 most of the speculation centered on a possible stadium site or training facility for the Rams. As an NFL owner, Stan Kroenke was one of the finalists for ownership in the LA Dodgers. Nearly a year after the news broke that the Rams owner had purchased a land in which a potential stadium could be built without a word from the NFL Commissioner, the Rams went without a stadium site in 2014. The Rams’ return to their home of nearly fifty years had already been discussed when Kroenkes purchased a 60-acre parcel of land in the area that had been studied by the league in the past for the 1995 Raiders proposal and that the league at one point attempted to purchase. This set off immediate speculation as to what Kroenkel’s intentions were for the land. The St. Louis Rams owner purchased the land in January 2014 and it was later revealed that the land was to be used for a new Rams stadium. The land was sold to Walmart and the Supercenter.
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