Welcome Stadium

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Welcome Stadium
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Location1601 South Edwin C. Moses Boulevard
Dayton, OH 45417
Coordinates 39°44′12″N84°11′53″W / 39.73667°N 84.19806°W / 39.73667; -84.19806 Coordinates: 39°44′12″N84°11′53″W / 39.73667°N 84.19806°W / 39.73667; -84.19806
Capacity 11,000 [1]
Opened1949
Tenants
Dayton Flyers football (NCAA D-I) (1974–present)
Aviation Bowl (NCAA) (1961)
Dayton Dynamo (NPSL) (2016–present)
2008 WelcomeStadiumOUTSIDE.jpg
2008

Welcome Stadium is an 11,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Dayton, Ohio, United States, owned and operated by Dayton Public Schools. Primary tenants of the facility include University of Dayton Flyers football team and the Dayton Dynamo of the National Premier Soccer League.

Multi-purpose stadium type of stadium

A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multifunctionality over specificity. It is used most commonly in Canada and the United States, where the two most popular outdoor team sports – football and baseball – require radically different facilities. Football uses a rectangular field, while baseball is played on a diamond and large outfield. This requires a particular design to accommodate both, usually an oval. While building stadiums in this way means that sports teams and governments can share costs, it also imposes some challenges.

Dayton, Ohio City in Ohio, United States

Dayton is the sixth-largest city in the state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2018 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 140,640, while Greater Dayton was estimated to be at 803,416 residents. This makes Dayton the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Ohio and 63rd in the United States. Dayton is within Ohio's Miami Valley region, just north of Greater Cincinnati.

United States Federal republic in North America

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States or simply America, is a country comprising 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles, it is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe. Most of the country is located in central North America between Canada and Mexico. With an estimated population of over 327 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City.

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It opened in 1949, and is home to all of the city's high schools. Since 1974, it has also been home to the Dayton Flyers football team. It hosted the 1961 Aviation Bowl and the Ohio High School State Track and Field finals for the years 1999–2003. It hosted the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Men's division in 1953 and 1957 the Women's division in 1963 and 1969. It also hosts Ohio's High School (OMEA) marching band finals in late October, early November. Soccer club Dayton Dynamo were tenants.

Dayton Flyers football

The Dayton Flyers football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the University of Dayton located in the U.S. state of Ohio. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Pioneer Football League. Dayton's first football team was fielded in 1905. The team plays its home games at the 11,000 seat Welcome Stadium in Dayton, Ohio. The Flyers are coached by Rick Chamberlin.

The Aviation Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game played at Welcome Stadium in Dayton, Ohio, on December 9, 1961. The University of New Mexico and Western Michigan University met in front of just over 3,500 fans.

Ohio State in the United States

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Of the fifty states, it is the 34th largest by area, the seventh most populous, and the tenth most densely populated. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus. Ohio is bordered by Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Lake Erie to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, and West Virginia on the southeast.

On July 27, 2019, the stadium hosted a Cincinnati Bengals training camp. The event was part of commemorations of the National Football League's official centennial season, paying tribute to one of its charter franchises—the Dayton Triangles. The team and NFL originally aimed for the camp to be held on new turf at the Triangles' former home field, Triangle Park (site of the NFL's first game), but the construction was called off after the discovery of a "unique and sizable anomaly" on the site in an archaeological survey. [2] [3] [4]

Cincinnati Bengals National Football League franchise in Cincinnati, Ohio

The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football franchise based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Bengals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Their home stadium is Paul Brown Stadium in downtown Cincinnati. Their divisional opponents are the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and the Baltimore Ravens.

National Football League Professional American football league

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America and the highest professional level of American football in the world. The NFL's 17-week regular season runs from early September to late December, with each team playing 16 games and having one bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular season, six teams from each conference advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, which is usually held on the first Sunday in February and is played between the champions of the NFC and AFC.

The Dayton Triangles were an original franchise of the American Professional Football Association in 1920. The Triangles were based in Dayton, Ohio, and took their nickname from their home field, Triangle Park, which was located at the confluence of the Great Miami and Stillwater Rivers in north Dayton. They were the longest-lasting traveling team in the NFL (1920–1929), and the last such "road team" until the Dallas Texans in 1952, who, coincidentally, descended from the Dayton franchise.

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References

  1. ↑ Welcome Stadium Information
  2. ↑ "City of Dayton calls off plans for turf field at Triangle Park". WHIO.com . Cox Media Group. May 15, 2019. Retrieved May 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ "History and football: Bengals have practice in Dayton to celebrate 100 years of football". Cincinnati.com. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  4. ↑ "A.J. Green suffers apparent ankle injury as Bengals open camp". SI.com. Retrieved 2019-07-28.


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