Stadiums

What it cost to build or rebuild each MLS club's own stadium, in dollars of the day, from Columbus's in 1999, the league's first built for soccer. Together they cost $4.2B in dollars. Public money is recorded only where a report states it, for 4 of them so far: $315M of their $930M. A blank is a figure not yet found, not a stadium built without public money; land, roads and tax breaks are often public even where the building is not. Stadiums a club shares with an NFL, MLB or college team are left out, since their cost was not the club's.

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Stadium costs by the year they opened, one mark per stadium in dollars, on a logarithmic scale: each gridline step is a doubling or more.

opened	club	stadium	kind	cost	public money	public share	note	sources
1999	Columbus Crew	Historic Crew Stadium	built	$28.5M	—	—	opened as Columbus Crew Stadium, the league's first built for soccer	1
2003	LA Galaxy	Dignity Health Sports Park	built	$150M	—	—	opened as the Home Depot Center, the cost is the whole complex, the soccer stadium alone about $87M	1
2005	FC Dallas	Toyota Stadium	built	$80M	—	—	opened as Pizza Hut Park	1
2006	Chicago Fire	SeatGeek Stadium	built	$98M	—	—	opened as Toyota Park in Bridgeview, the Fire left for Soldier Field in 2020	1
2007	Toronto FC	BMO Field	built	C$62.9M	—	—		1
2007	Colorado Rapids	Dick's Sporting Goods Park	built	$64.5M	—	—	Commerce City voters also approved a $65M bond for infrastructure around it	1 2
2008	Real Salt Lake	America First Field	built	$110M	$35M	32%	opened as Rio Tinto Stadium, the public share is the $35M the Utah legislature approved	1 2
2008	CF Montréal	Stade Saputo	built	C$47M	—	—	built for the Impact before they joined MLS in 2012, and expanded that year	1 2
2010	New York Red Bulls	Sports Illustrated Stadium	built	$200M	—	—	opened as Red Bull Arena	1
2010	Philadelphia Union	Subaru Park	built	$120M	$77M	64%	opened as PPL Park, $30M from Delaware County and $47M from Pennsylvania	1
2011	Sporting Kansas City	Children's Mercy Park	built	$200M	—	—	opened as Livestrong Sporting Park	1
2011	Portland Timbers	Providence Park	rebuilt	$36M	—	—	the renovation for MLS of the 1926 stadium, then Jeld-Wen Field	1
2012	Houston Dynamo	Shell Energy Stadium	built	$95M	—	—	opened as BBVA Compass Stadium	1
2015	San Jose Earthquakes	PayPal Park	built	$100M	—	—	opened as Avaya Stadium	1 2
2017	Orlando City SC	Inter&Co Stadium	built	$155M	—	—	opened as Orlando City Stadium	1 2
2018	D.C. United	Audi Field	built	$450M	$150M	33%	the public share is the $150M the city put toward the land	1 2
2018	Los Angeles FC	BMO Stadium	built	$350M	—	—	opened as Banc of California Stadium	1 2
2018	FC Dallas	Toyota Stadium	rebuilt	$55M	—	—	the 2018 renovation	1
2019	Minnesota United FC	Allianz Field	built	$200M	—	—		1
2020	Inter Miami	Chase Stadium	built	$60M	—	—	a temporary home in Fort Lauderdale, opened as DRV PNK Stadium	1
2021	Austin FC	Q2 Stadium	built	$260M	—	—	about $260M	1
2021	Columbus Crew	ScottsMiracle-Gro Field	built	$314M	—	—	opened as Lower.com Field	1
2021	FC Cincinnati	TQL Stadium	built	$250M	$53M	21%	the public share is infrastructure around it: $34M from the city and $19M from Hamilton County and Ohio	1 2
2022	Saint Louis City SC	Energizer Park	built	$457.8M	—	—	opened as CityPark, no up-front public money but over $60M in tax incentives	1 2
2022	Nashville SC	Geodis Park	built	$325M	—	—	reported at $325M to $345M, the overrun paid by the owners, Metro Nashville issued $225M in bonds the club repays	1 2

Cost is the reported construction cost; Toronto's and Montreal's are in Canadian dollars and are left off the chart. The stadium is named as it is now; the note gives the name it opened under. Sources are numbered links to the reports.