Dickies Arena

Dickies Arena

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Address	1911 Montgomery Street
Location	Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Coordinates	32°44′27″N97°22′12″W / 32.7408908°N 97.3699379°W / 32.7408908; -97.3699379
Owner	City of Fort Worth
Operator	Trail Drive Management Corporation
Capacity	Concerts: 14,000 basketball: 13,550 family shows and hockey: 12,200 rodeo performances: 9,300
Construction
Broke ground	2015
Opened	November 8, 2019
Construction cost	$540 million [1]
Architect	David M. Schwarz
General contractor	The Beck Group
Tenants
Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo 2020–present Panther City Lacrosse Club (NLL) 2021–2024 Texas Rattlers (PBR) (2022-present)
Website
dickiesarena.com

Dickies Arena is a 14,000-seat multipurpose American arena, located within the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. ^[2] The venue hosted a public ribbon cutting on October 26, 2019. The first event held was a Twenty One Pilots concert on November 8, 2019.

The facility is the result of a public-private partnership between Fort Worth, Tarrant County, the state of Texas, and a group of private-sector participants, including foundations, individuals, and organizations. The arena was designed by the 2015 Driehaus Prize winner David M. Schwarz ^[3] and is owned by Fort Worth and managed by the not-for-profit Multipurpose Arena Fort Worth (MAFW).

It hosts concerts, sporting events, and family entertainment, and serves as the home of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. The rodeo is sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and has been held at Dickies Arena since 2020. The venue was the home of the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) World Finals in 2022 and 2023. Since 2022, it has been a home arena of Rattler Days; the hometown event of the Texas Rattlers during the PBR Team Series season. Since 2025, the PBR hosts its Last Cowboy Standing event as part of the rodeo. The Fort Worth Stock Show and other equestrian events are held at the adjacent Will Rogers Memorial Center.

Naming

On April 18, 2017, as part of the "Let The Dirt Fly" groundbreaking ceremony, MAFW and Dickies announced a surprise partnership that established Dickies as the naming rights partner for the venue. The Fort Worth-based company is the world's leading performance workwear brand. ^[4]

Seating

With a wide variety of seating configurations, the arena is able to accommodate many styles of events. There will be 3 standard levels: plaza level (100-sections), suite and loge box level, and gallery level (200-sections); and 1 additional with floor seating.

Acoustics

While in the design phase, Dickies Arena was built with the intent of having the sound of a concert hall. Great care was given to minimize or eliminate "echo." ^{[ citation needed ]}

Center-hung scoreboard

Dickies Arena has the second-largest, continuous 360-degree screen in North America. The scoreboard extends past the width of the basketball court.

The board measures 105 feet across and 26 feet tall.

There are 1.2 million LEDs^{[ clarification needed ]} installed on the board.

Events

Concerts

Dates	Headliner	Supporting Acts	Tour	Attendance	Revenue	Notes
2019
November 8	Twenty One Pilots	MisterWives	The Bandito Tour	12,435 / 12,658	$891,443	First-ever concert in the arena.
November 11	SuperM	—	We Are The Future Live	8,393	$367,032	There was only one price level for this event, all tickets were US$50.00, it was the only price set for all available seats. This was also the first foreign act to headline the arena.
November 14	The Black Keys	Modest Mouse	Let's Rock Tour	—	—	—
November 17	MercyMe	Crowder Micah Tyler	Imagine Nation Tour	9,907 / 10,239	$495,346	—
November 22-23	George Strait	—	—	27,168 / 27,168	$5,794,152	This was the first country concert held in the arena and the largest and highest-grossing concert held till date.
December 3	106.1 KISS FM'S Jingle Ball		Jingle Ball Tour 2019	Un­known		The line up included performances by: Camila Cabello, Sam Smith, Charlie Puth, Lizzo, Lauv and Why Don't We.
December 14	Pepe Aguilar	—		Un­known		First Latin music artist to perform in the arena.
Total				57,903 / 58,458	$7,547,973
2020
February 22	Alan Jackson	—
July 4	Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra	Megan Koch, Fort Worth Opera Texas Ballet Theater Fei-Fei, The Cliburn Major Attaway	FWSO America Strong Concert	—		Broadcast on WFAA-TV Channel 8 ABC; no in-person audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021
June 16	Steely Dan	Steve Winwood	2021 Tour	—
July 24	The Dude Perfect Show	—	2020 Tour	—
August 20	Rod Stewart	Cheap Trick	—
September 13	Eric Clapton	Jimmie Vaughan	2021 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR	11,370	$2,230,660	—
September 21	Michael Bublé	—	An Evening with Michael Bublé	—		First Canadian artist to perform in the Arena.
October 1	Kiss	David Garibaldi	End of the Road World Tour	9,658 / 9,937 (97%)	$1,251,573
October 19	James Taylor & His All-Star Band	Jackson Browne	2021 Fall Tour	—
December 3	For King & Country	—	A Drummer Boy Christmas Tour	—
2022
February 22	Twice	—	Twice 4th World Tour III	10,357	$1,169,384	—
April 1	Eric Church	—	Gather Again Tour	14,193	$1,797,404	—
May 17	Paul McCartney	—	Got Back	12,093	$3,985,850	—
June 6	Monsta X	—	No Limit Tour	10,068 / 10,461	$872,200	—
August 20	Rob Zombie	Mudvayne, Static-X, Powerman 5000	Freaks on Parade Tour	—		A video tribute for the late Texan guitarist Dimebag Darrell was shown during Mudvayne's performance (the concert was held on what would have been his 56th birthday).
August 23	Seventeen	—	BE THE SUN	9,282 / 10,105	$1,117,761	—
September 10	The Killers	Johnny Marr	Imploding the Mirage Tour	12,964 / 13,224	$737,731	—
September 11	Panic! at the Disco	Beach Bunny, Jake Wesley Rogers	Viva Las Vengeance Tour	—
October 2	Mary J. Blige	Queen Naija	Good Morning Gorgeous Tour	9,680 / 11,084	$1,385,861	—
October 6	Enhypen	—	Manifesto (tour)	10,043 / 11,230	$1,392,457	—
October 26	Post Malone	Roddy Ricch	Twelve Carat Tour	11,860	$1,473,785	—
November 16	Ateez	—	The Fellowship: Break The Wall	11,023	$1,476,047	—
2023
March 26-27	Stray Kids	—	Stray Kids 2nd World Tour "MANIAC"	22,626	$2,553,994	—
April 20	Rauw Alejandro	Jabbawockeez	Saturno World Tour	13,068 / 13,343	$1,595,821	First Puerto Rican singer to perform in the Arena.
April 28	Kenny Loggins	Yacht Rock Revue	This Is It! His Final Tour	TBA
May 6	Brooks & Dunn	Scotty McCreery Megan Moroney	REBOOT Tour	TBA
May 24	Mamamoo	—	My Con World Tour	6,387 / 10,472	$1,018,340	—
June 9	Koe Wetzel	Treaty Oak Revival	Road To Hell Paso Tour	TBA
June 22	Big Time Rush	MAX Jax	Can't Get Enough Tour	TBA
June 24	Kid Rock	Marcus King	Bad Reputation Tour	TBA
June 29	Bryan Adams	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	So Happy It Hurts Tour	TBA
July 8	Paramore	Foals The Linda Lindas	This Is Why Tour	TBA
July 29	ZZ Top Lynyrd Skynyrd	Uncle Kracker	The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour	TBA
August 2	NF	Cordae	Hope Tour	TBA
August 26	Banda MS	—	MS20 Tour	TBA		First Mexican headliner
September 7	Sam Smith	Jessie Reyez	GLORIA the Tour	TBA
September 16	Arctic Monkeys	Fontaines D.C.	—
September 29	Luke Bryan	Chayce Beckham Jackson Dean Hailey Whitters	Country On Tour	TBA
October 9	The 1975	Dora Jar	Still... At Their Very Best	TBA
October 13	Shania Twain	Lily Rose	Queen of Me Tour	TBA
October 14	Jason Aldean	Mitchell Tenpenny Corey Kent Dee Jay Silver	Highway Desperado Tour	TBA
October 15	Avenged Sevenfold	Falling in Reverse	Life Is but a Dream... Tour	TBA
October 27	KISS	—	End of the Road World Tour	TBA
November 17-18	George Strait	—	2023 Stadium Shows	TBA
December 1	Lauren Daigle	—	The Kaleidoscope Tour	TBA
December 2	Jon Pardi	Ella Langley DJ Highmax	Mr. Saturday Night World Tour	TBA
December 8	Trans-Siberian Orchestra	TBA	The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO and More	TBA
December 15	For King & Country	—	A Drummer Boy Christmas Tour	TBA
December 20	Pentatonix	—	The Most Wonderful Tour of the Year	TBA
December 31	Parker McCollum	Corey Kent Catie Offerman	—	TBA
2024
March 7	Fall Out Boy	Jimmy Eat World The Maine Daisy Grenade	So Much For (Tour) Dust	TBA		Fall Out Boy started late due to travel issues at DFW affecting frontman Patrick Stump's arrival.
March 8	Dan + Shay	Ben Rector Hailey Whitters	Heartbreak on the Map Tour
March 20	IVE	—	Show What I Have World Tour	7,320	$882,302	—
April 12	Tim McGraw	Carly Pearce	Standing Room Only Tour '24	TBA
June 4	Justin Timberlake		The Forget Tomorrow World Tour	TBA
June 25	Blink-182	Pierce the Veil Live Without	One More Time Tour	TBA
July 10	AJR	TBA	The Maybe Man Tour	TBA
July 19	Chris Brown	Muni Long Maeta	The 11:11 Tour	TBA		Brown was sued for $50 million after assaulting four men in his paid entourauge after his July 20th performance.
July 20
July 25	Janet Jackson	Nelly	Together Again	TBA
August 21	Barry Manilow	—	The Last Fort Worth Concert	TBA
September 17	NCT DREAM	—	The Dream Show 3: Dream( )scape	TBA
September 18	Rob Zombie	Alice Cooper, Ministry	Freaks on Parade Tour	—		The band Filter was also part of the tour as seen on posters and ads, but they were unable to perform (according to Rob Zombie) due to taking ill.
September 25	Hans Zimmer	—	Hans Zimmer Live	TBA
October 26	Maisie Peters	TBA	The Good Witch	TBA
November 2	Chris Tomlin	Tauren Wells	Holy Forever World Tour	TBA
November 13	Creed	3 Doors Down Mammoth WVH	Are You Ready? Tour	TBA
November 16	Iron Maiden	The Hu	The Future Past World Tour	TBA
December 7	Alabama	David Lee Murphy	Roll On II North America Tour	TBA
2025
February 15	Alan Jackson	Zach Top	One More For The Road Tour	TBA
March 27	Rascal Flatts	Lauren Alaina Chris Lane	Life Is a Highway Tour	TBA
May 7	Billy Idol	Joan Jett and the Blackhearts	It’s A Nice Day To…Tour Again!	TBA
June 13	Wu-Tang Clan	Run the Jewels	Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber	TBA
September 13	Nine Inch Nails	—	Peel It Back Tour	TBA
October 9	Keith Urban	Alana Springsteen Chase Matthew Karley Scott Collins	High and ALive World Tour	TBA

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation

Date	Headliner	Supporting acts	Tour	Reason
July 18, 2020	Rascal Flatts	Chase Rice Matt Stell	Farewell: Life Is a Highway Tour	COVID-19 pandemic [5]
August 18, 2020	Camila Cabello	PRETTYMUCH	The Romance Tour	Canceled on May 7, 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic [6]

Sports

• The arena hosted its first Hot Wheels Monster Truck Live show on November 15 & 16, 2019.
• TCU hosted the first sporting event in Dickies Arena with a non-conference basketball game against USC on December 6, 2019. ^[7]
• Since 2020, Dickies Arena has been home to the rodeo section of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. It has been sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) for many years and was previously held at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum.
• 2021 and 2022 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
• The American Athletic Conference will host its annual American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament ^[8] (2020, 2021, 2022) and American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament ^[9] (2021, 2022) at Dickies Arena.
• Dickies Arena hosted first and second-round games during the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. ^[10]
• On July 22, 2020, the National Lacrosse League announced it would be expanding to Fort Worth for the 2021–22 season, playing its home games at Dickies Arena. ^[11]
• The Professional Bull Riders (PBR) hosted a regular-season Unleash the Beast Series event at Dickies Arena on August 29 and 30, 2020. ^[12] The event returned on August 28 and 29, 2021. ^[13] In 2022 and 2023, Dickies Arena served as the home of the PBR World Finals, now held every May after taking place for many years in the autumn in Las Vegas, Nevada. ^{[14] [15] [16]} Also since 2022, Dickies Arena has been a home venue of Rattler Days; the hometown event of the Texas Rattlers during the PBR Team Series season held every summer through autumn. In 2022 and 2023, all three days were held at Dickies Arena. However, since 2024, the first day is held at Cowtown Coliseum (also in Fort Worth), while the next two days are held at Dickies Arena. For several years, a PRCA Xtreme Bulls event called Bulls' Night Out was held as part of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. However, since 2025, the all-bull riding event at the rodeo is the PBR's Last Cowboy Standing event.
• On March 20, 2021, boxing hosted Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs Maurice Hooker. Ortiz Jr won by 7th round TKO to win the WBO International welterweight title.
• On July 18, 2021, WWE presented the 2021 Money in the Bank pay-per-view event from Dickies Arena, making it the first WWE pay-per-view to take place outside of Florida since the 2020 Elimination Chamber event prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• From August 4 through August 14, Dickies Arena hosted the 2022 Rocket League World Championship, a premier Esports tournament. ^[17]
• From October 31 through November 7, Dickies Arena hosted the 2022 WTA Finals. ^[18]
• Dickies Arena hosted the CrossFit Games from August 8 through August 11, 2024.
• The arena hosted the 2024 Fortnite Championship Series Global Championship on September 7 and 8, 2024.
• The Rocket League Championship Series returned for their 2024 World Championship event, held from September 10 through September 15.

References

1. David Ajamy (October 23, 2019). "Photo tour: Inside the new Dickies Arena in Fort Worth" . Retrieved February 25, 2020.
2. "The Arena". dickiesarena.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
3. "Dickies Arena Architect Sees His Work in Action for Rodeo". NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
4. "Fort Worth arena project lands Dickies naming rights deal". Dallas News. April 18, 2017.
5. lafferlauren (2020-05-19). "Rascal Flatts Cancel 2020 Farewell Life Is A Highway Tour". Sounds Like Nashville. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
6. "Camila Cabello - The Romance Tour - CANCELLED". Dickies Arena. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
7. "Dickies Arena's inaugural basketball game to feature TCU and USC". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
8. "Fort Worth to host 2020-2022 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Championships". American Athletic Conference. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
9. "Dickies Arena To Host 2021, 2022 Women's Basketball Championships". American Athletic Conference. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
10. "New Fort Worth Arena to host NCAA Tournament games in 2022". WFAA. 18 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
11. "National Lacrosse League announces first-ever expansion into the state of Texas". National Lacrosse League.
12. PBR Back to Work, presented by O'Reilly: revised PBR schedule for second half of 2020 premier series revealed
13. "PBR Iron Cowboy 2021". Professional Bull Riders. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
14. "PBR World Finals Moving to Fort Worth in 2022". Professional Bull Riders. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
15. "Inaugural PBR World Finals in Dickies Arena". Professional Bull Riders. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
16. "Results of 2023 PBR World Finals". Professional Bull Riders. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
17. "Rocket League Championship". Dickies Arena. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
18. "2022 edition of WTA Finals to be held in Fort Worth, Texas" (Press release). Women's Tennis Association. September 6, 2022. Archived from the original on September 11, 2022. Retrieved September 12, 2022.

External links

• Official website