Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wants his sports palace, AT&T Stadium, to host the U.S.-Mexico-Canada 2026 World Cup final and, to that end, he submitted a stadium remodeling project to the NFL for approval.
During the league’s annual winter meeting, the NFL owners approved the plan presented by Jerry Jones to invest $295 million in improvements to the stadium, without providing details as to the areas in which this project will be applied.
Various scenics of Mexico’s World Cup 2026 sites
The AT&T Stadium remodeling project
After the meeting, Jerry Jones gave more information about his proposal, although he did not accept that his main motivation is to bring the most important game in world soccer to Arlington, Texas.
“That was the intention all along: to keep it better than new,” Jerry Jones said. “That’s what we’re trying to do. Primarily, it’s taking some of the areas that we can really make more efficient, some of the concession stand locations. Also, we intend to update and replace anything that looks dated. We want it to look like it did on day one.”
What the controversial mogul did advance is that the clarity of the stadium’s video screen, once the largest of its kind on the entire planet, will be improved.
AT&T Stadium amenities
Cowboys Stadium (original name of the stadium) was inaugurated in 2009 and has a capacity of 80,000 spectators, but it can be extended to 100,000 for some events, mainly concerts. Its construction cost was $1.3 billion.
Its screen covers an area of 1,70 thousand square meters. In addition, it has a retractable roof, which opens and closes completely in a maximum time of 9 minutes, the inclusion of which is due to conclude what was the failed attempt of the Cowboys’ previous home, Texas Stadium.
AT&T Stadium hosted Super Bowl XLV as well as other major events in U.S. sports such as Wrestlemania 32, the WWE’s largest event, with a total attendance of 101,763 people, breaking the company’s all-time record. It has hosted collegiate finals in the NCAA and NCAAB, as well as boxing events, in particular the Mexican champion, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.