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Former names | Ravens Stadium at Camden Yards (1998–1999) PSINet Stadium (1999–2002) Ravens Stadium (2002–2003) |
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Address | 1101 Russell Street |
Location | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
Coordinates | 39°16′41″N76°37′22″W / 39.27806°N 76.62278°W |
Public transit | Camden Station Stadium/Federal Hill MTA Maryland bus: 69, 70, 73, 75 |
Owner | Maryland Stadium Authority |
Operator | Baltimore Ravens |
Capacity | 70,745 (2021–present) Former capacity: |
Surface | GN-1 Bermuda Grass (1998–2002) Shaw Sports Turf Momentum (2003–2009) Shaw Sports Turf Momentum 51 (2010–2015) Tifway 419 Bermuda Grass (2016–present) |
Construction | |
Broke ground | July 23, 1996 [4] |
Opened | August 8, 1998[5] |
Construction cost | US$220 million ($411 million in 2023 dollars [6] ) |
Architect | HOK Sport (now Populous) |
Project manager | Getz Ventures [7] |
Structural engineer | Bliss and Nyitray, Inc. |
Services engineer | RMF Engineering, Inc. [8] |
General contractor | The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company and Barton Malow JV |
Tenants | |
Baltimore Ravens (NFL) (1998–present) Baltimore Bayhawks (MLL) (2002) | |
Website | |
baltimoreravens.com/stadium |
M&T Bank Stadium is a multi-purpose football stadium located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It has been the home of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL) since its opening in 1998. The stadium is immediately adjacent to Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the home of the Baltimore Orioles. Often referred to as "Ravens Stadium" or "The Bank", [9] the stadium has a listed capacity of 70,745 and has been praised for its fan amenities, ease of access, concessions and other facilities. [10]
The stadium was originally known as Ravens Stadium at Camden Yards, until PSINet acquired the naming rights in 1999, naming it PSINet Stadium. It then reverted to Ravens Stadium in 2002 when PSINet filed for bankruptcy. M&T Bank bought the naming rights in 2003 and signed a 15-year, $75 million contract with the Ravens, which was brokered by Team Services, LLC. The naming rights deal for M&T Bank Stadium was renewed for $60M over 10 years in 2014, extending the name through 2027.
Ground was broken for the new stadium in mid-1996, shortly after the arrival of the Ravens. The team played its first two years at Memorial Stadium. Although there was some sentiment from Baltimore residents in having the Ravens stay there permanently, it was deemed too old to host an NFL team. The Orioles moved away from Memorial Stadium after the 1991 season.
The stadium site was previously the site of the Wm. Knabe & Co. piano factory, which closed during the Great Depression. A sidewalk keyboard mosaic on the southwest corner of the stadium honors the company's legacy.
In 2003, M&T Bank acquired naming rights to the stadium. The bank had recently entered the Baltimore market with its purchase of Allfirst Bank. Two other companies were in the running to be granted naming rights to the stadium. They were reportedly Nextel and CarMax. Following the September 2002 death of Baltimore Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas, public sentiment leaned toward renaming the then-sponsorless stadium after the Baltimore icon. The Ravens and the Maryland Stadium Authority held firm in their right to negotiate naming rights fees.
In the end, the plaza in front of the main entrance to the Ravens' stadium was named "Unitas Plaza", complete with a bronze statue of the Hall of Famer. Many Ravens fans, as they enter the stadium, will rub the foot of Unitas' statue as they walk by it. The plaza formerly featured large banners, each containing a picture of Unitas in his playing days, flanking the stadium entrance. After 10 years, these were replaced by large metal 19s (Unitas' number) for the 2012 season.
In 2014, the Ravens unveiled a new statue of long-time Raven Ray Lewis next to Unitas' statue. The bronze figure depicts Lewis in the final pose of his iconic "squirrel dance", which he performed before every Ravens home game upon coming on to the field. Since 2020, the letters "MO" of Baltimore Ravens in the Stadium's endzone are painted either gold or white in honor of Baltimore sports icon Mo Gaba.
The stadium contains five levels, being the lower bowl, club level, 300 suites level, 400 suites level, and the upper bowl. The lower bowl contains 42 rows of seats, split into two sections. The seats below the tunnel entrances are labeled from 1 to 18, while the seats above the tunnels are labeled from 19 to 42, except in sections 123-130, which contain rows 19-35, due to the press box taking up sideline space.
On the club level, the rows are labeled from 1 to 13 on the sidelines, and 1 to 17 in the corners where no suites are located. In the upper bowl, the sideline seats are labeled from 1 to 32, while in the upper bowl end zones, the rows range from 1 to 26. Seat widths for the lower and upper bowls of the stadium vary from 19 to 21 inches, due to the curve design of the stadium, while the padded club seats range from 21 to 23 inches respectively.
The venue is served by the Stadium/Federal Hill station of the Baltimore Light Rail.
The stadium originally featured a natural grass surface. An artificial surface, Sportexe Momentum Turf, was installed for the 2003 season, which in turn was replaced by a new-generation Sportexe Momentum 51 in 2010. In December 2015, the Ravens announced that in 2016 the team would go back to natural grass playing surface, which is currently Tifway 419 Bermudagrass. [11]
The Ravens are the stadium's primary tenant. On December 7, 2008, an M&T Bank Stadium then-record crowd of 71,438 watched the Baltimore Ravens defeat the Washington Redskins 24-10 on Sunday Night Football , only to be surpassed the next week when the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Ravens 13–9 in front of 71,502. [12] On January 15, 2012, a record crowd of 71,547, the largest in Ravens history, [13] was in attendance at the 2011 Divisional Playoff Game in Baltimore against the Houston Texans, which the Ravens won 20–13.
In 2000, the stadium hosted the Army–Navy Game for the first time and has subsequently hosted the rivalry game in 2007, 2014, and 2016.
In 2005, the stadium was the site of the first rematch in the Maryland – Navy series known as the "Crab Bowl Classic" in 40 years. [14] The two teams played again at M&T Bank Stadium on September 6, 2010 and Maryland won 17–14.
On October 28, 2006, the stadium held a contest between Notre Dame and Navy in which Notre Dame won 38–14. In 2014, the stadium played host to Ohio State – Navy; Ohio State won 34–17. [15]
In 2013, the annual rivalry between Maryland and West Virginia was held at the stadium. [16]
On October 24, 2015, the stadium hosted a Big Ten match-up between Maryland and Penn State in which Penn State won 31–30. [17]
In 2022, Notre Dame and Navy faced off at the stadium once again, with the Fighting Irish winning 35–32.
The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA) held the four state football championships for Maryland's public high schools at M&T Bank Stadium until 2016. Two Baltimore high school football rivalry games have been held at the stadium in November. Baltimore City College used to play Baltimore Polytechnic Institute every November, in one of the oldest high school football rivalries in the United States. Every Thanksgiving, Loyola Blakefield and Calvert Hall College also square off in what has now been called for many years as the Turkey Bowl, usually reaching up to 13,000 people in the audience. [18]
Both games were once played back-to-back on Thanksgiving Day at Memorial Stadium. When City College and Polytechnic joined the MPSSAA before 1994 season, the game was forced to be played in early November, due to MPSSAA rules and playoff schedule.
On July 24, 2009, English Premier League club Chelsea won 2–1 against Italian Serie A team AC Milan in the first World Football Challenge at M&T Bank Stadium in front of a crowd of 71,203. [19] On July 28, 2012 the stadium hosted a match between Premier League teams Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur before 42,723 fans. [20]
The stadium was a venue for the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup, drawing a crowd of 70,450 to watch a quarter finals doubleheader between the United States v. El Salvador, and Honduras v. Costa Rica. [21] The 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup had two quarterfinals games at the stadium: United States v. Cuba and Haiti v. Jamaica, played in front of 37,994 spectators.
Date | Winning Team | Result | Losing Team | Tournament | Spectators |
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July 24, 2009 | Chelsea | 2–1 | Milan | World Football Challenge | 71,203 |
July 31, 2010 | Inter Milan | 3–0 | Manchester City | Club Friendly | 36,569 |
July 28, 2012 | Liverpool | 0–0 | Tottenham Hotspur | Club Friendly | 42,723 |
July 21, 2013 | United States | 5–1 | El Salvador | 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup Quarter-finals | 70,540 |
Honduras | 1–0 | Costa Rica | |||
July 18, 2015 | United States | 6–0 | Cuba | 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup Quarter-finals | 37,994 |
Jamaica | 1–0 | Haiti | |||
July 16, 2022 | Arsenal | 2–0 | Everton | Club Friendly | 39,245 |
August 6, 2024 | Milan | 2–2 (4–3 p) | Barcelona | Club Friendly | 51,337 |
The stadium serves as an alternate venue for the Johns Hopkins University men's lacrosse team, and was the site of the semifinals and final of the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, and 2014. Major League Lacrosse's Baltimore Bayhawks used the stadium as their home during the 2002 season.
Date | Artist | Opening act(s) | Tour / Concert name | Attendance | Revenue | Notes |
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July 4, 2000 | Metallica | Korn Kid Rock Powerman 5000 System of a Down | Summer Sanitarium Tour | 39,257 / 50,000 | $2,415,205 | |
May 10, 2008 | Kenny Chesney | Brooks & Dunn Big & Rich LeAnn Rimes Gary Allan | Poets and Pirates Tour | 42,316 / 45,359 | $3,563,206 | |
June 22, 2011 | U2 | Florence and the Machine | U2 360° Tour | 74,557 / 74,557 | $6,832,510 | Biggest concert in the stadium's history. |
August 8, 2013 | Jay-Z Justin Timberlake | DJ Cassidy | Legends of the Summer Stadium Tour | 49,668 / 49,668 | $4,726,398 | |
July 7, 2014 | Beyoncé Jay-Z | — | On the Run Tour | 51,212 / 51,212 | $5,016,036 | Fastest selling concert in the stadium's history. [22] |
July 25, 2015 | Billy Joel | LeAnn Rimes | Billy Joel in Concert | 39,662 / 39,662 | $4,481,549 | Returned to Baltimore after nearly 40 years [23] |
August 8, 2015 | One Direction | Icona Pop | On the Road Again Tour | 41,467 / 41,467 | $3,690,753 | |
June 10, 2016 | Beyoncé | DJ Khaled | Formation World Tour | 47,819 / 47,819 | $5,770,660 | Wale, Yo Gotti and Trey Songz joined DJ Khaled during the opening act. [24] |
May 10, 2017 | Metallica | Avenged Sevenfold Volbeat | WorldWired Tour | 55,705 / 55,705 | $5,970,421 | |
October 7, 2023 | Billy Joel & Stevie Nicks | Two Icons - One Night 2023 |
Popular music festival HFStival appeared at the stadium in 1999 & 2005, as Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Silverchair, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Offspring, Blink-182, Goo Goo Dolls, Billy Idol, and Coldplay have all played the concert.
Monster Jam was held at the stadium for the first time in 2011. Monster Jam returned for the third time on June 8, 2013.
It served as Nextel Stadium, the home field for the fictional Washington Sentinels in the 2000 film The Replacements . [25] The stadium was supposed to be the location of the football game in the 2002 film The Sum of All Fears and included footage of the presidential motorcade going to the building. The stadium used for the aerial shots is the domed Olympic Stadium in Montreal, while the book used Denver as the locale for the attack. [26]
It was featured in "Stadium," a 2013 television public service announcement which was part of the "I Want To Be Recycled" advertising campaign for Keep America Beautiful and the Ad Council. The stadium is partially constructed from post-consumer recycled aluminum. [27] [28]
On February 25, 2021, despite COVID-19 pandemic, M&T Bank Stadium became the third mass vaccination site in the state of Maryland, inoculating residents against COVID-19, according to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). It is a public-private partnership between the Maryland Air National Guard and the University of Maryland Medical System and has the capacity to do up to 6,000-10,000 vaccinations a day, supply notwithstanding. [29] [30]
The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore. The Ravens compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. The team plays its home games at M&T Bank Stadium and is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.
John Constantine Unitas was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Baltimore Colts. Nicknamed "Johnny U" and "the Golden Arm", Unitas was considered the prototype of the modern era marquee quarterback and is regarded as one of the greatest NFL players of all time.
The Army–Navy Game is an American college football rivalry game between the Army Black Knights of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, and the Navy Midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis, Maryland. The Black Knights, or Cadets, and Midshipmen each represent their service's oldest officer commissioning sources. As such, the game has come to embody the spirit of the interservice rivalry of the United States Armed Forces. The game marks the end of the college football regular season and the third and final game of the season's Commander-in-Chief's Trophy series, which also includes the Air Force Falcons of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Baltimore Memorial Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, that formerly stood on 33rd Street on an oversized block officially called Venable Park, a former city park from the 1920s. The site was bound by Ellerslie Avenue to the west, 36th Street to the north, and Ednor Road to the east.
The Maryland Terrapins football team represents the University of Maryland, College Park in the sport of American football. The Terrapins compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and the Big Ten Conference. The Terrapins joined the Big Ten Conference on July 1, 2014, following 62 years in the Atlantic Coast Conference as a founding member. Mike Locksley is the head coach of the Terrapins.
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The City–Poly football rivalry, also referred to as the "City-Poly Game" is an American football rivalry between the Baltimore City College Black Knights (City) and the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Engineers (Poly). This matchup is the oldest football rivalry in Maryland. The rivalry is believed to be the second-oldest high school football rivalry in the United States between public high schools, predated only by the English High School of Boston-Boston Latin School football rivalry, which started two years earlier in 1887. The rivalry began in 1889 and the teams have met 136 times in history. City College leads the series 67–62–6.
Baltimore, Maryland has a long and storied sporting history encompassing many teams from many different eras. Area fans, such as the late Wild Bill Hagy, are known for their passion and reverence for historical sports figures who played in the city or were born there.
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The 2012 season was the Baltimore Ravens' 17th in the National Football League (NFL). While the Ravens failed to improve on their 12–4 record from 2011, they still managed to clinch the AFC North division title in Week 16 and finish the regular season with a 10–6 record, sending them to their fifth straight playoffs, where they advanced to the AFC Championship Game for the second consecutive season and third time in five years, and then to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2000. They won their second Super Bowl, 34–31 against the San Francisco 49ers. It was the first time in franchise history that the Ravens won consecutive division titles. This marks head coach John Harbaugh's fifth season as the head coach of the franchise and fifth consecutive post-season appearance. The Ravens played their home games at M&T Bank Stadium.
The Baltimore Colts were a professional American football team that played in Baltimore from 1953 to 1983, when owner Robert Irsay moved the franchise to Indianapolis. The team was named for Baltimore's history of horse breeding and racing. It was the second incarnation of the Baltimore Colts, the first having played for three years in the All-America Football Conference and one in the National Football League (NFL). This Baltimore Colts played their home games at Memorial Stadium.
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Stadium Area is a neighborhood in south Baltimore, Maryland. The area is largely consistent of adjacent sports stadiums, M&T Bank Stadium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and the surrounding infrastructure supporting them.
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Preceded by | Home of the Baltimore Ravens 1998 – present | Succeeded by current |
Preceded by | Host of AFC Championship Game 2024 | Succeeded by incumbent |
Preceded by | Home of the NCAA Lacrosse Final Four 2003 – 2004 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Home of the NCAA Lacrosse Final Four 2007 | Succeeded by |