{"id":117196,"date":"2025-06-09T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/117196\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T22:55:09","slug":"washington-commanders-planning-for-new-stadium-to-host-200-events-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/117196\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders planning for new stadium to host 200 events per year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Commanders plan to \u201cutilize the concourses and premium spaces inside their proposed roofed stadium<\/a>\u201d in D.C. to \u201cmeet a goal of 200-plus nights of activation each year,\u201d according to Drew Hansen of the WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL. The team is \u201clooking to schedule about 20 major events each year beyond 10 home football games at the new stadium — meaning a handful of large-scale concerts and rotating national sporting events like the men\u2019s and women\u2019s Final Four, international soccer matches and WrestleMania.\u201d To make sure the stadium is \u201cin use more days than not, the Commanders will make concourses and other spaces in the venue available for private events like galas, group functions and community gatherings.\u201d Activating the stadium throughout the year is an \u201cimportant selling point in the team\u2019s quest to win city approval for the deal<\/a>.\u201d But that number of events is \u201conly possible with a roof on the stadium.\u201d A new venue also would \u201clikely have a second tunnel engineered into its design and would have things like field-level or field-adjacent bathrooms to accommodate concertgoers with on-field tickets.\u201d The playing surface will \u201clikely be big enough to accommodate more soccer and rugby exhibitions.\u201d A Commanders spokesperson said that the organization is \u201ctrying to build up its expertise with nonfootball events at Northwest Stadium ahead of opening the new venue, where concerts and private events will be a much larger part of day-to-day operations\u201d (WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL, 6\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commanders plan to \u201cutilize the concourses and premium spaces inside their proposed roofed stadium\u201d in D.C. to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,11821,7,6,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-117196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-fan-experience","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-washington","13":"tag-washington-commanders","14":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114655875880269112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}