New Washington Football Stadium Expected To Open By 2027

WASHINGTON, DC — The owner of the Washington Football Team hopes to have a new state-of-the-art stadium open in the D.C. area by 2027, according to reports.

Dan Snyder, who has owned the football franchise for more than two decades, is touring stadiums across the United States and Europe to see what might work nicely for his planned stadium that would be built in D.C., Maryland, or Virginia.

The franchise has not decided yet which jurisdiction it will build the new stadium, Snyder told TMZ Sports while touring SoFi Stadium, the new California home of the Chargers and Rams.

"We're coming [to the] West Coast and touring, about 12 of us, looking to build a new venue back home, in D.C. or Maryland,” Snyder told TMZ. “So we're everywhere ... looking at the future ... We're making big plans. Coming soon to Washington."

The Washington Football Team has FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, under lease until 2027. Snyder said the new stadium will open "probably a little before [2027]."

FedEx Field opened in 1997 as Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, named after the team's former owner under which the team won three Super Bowl titles.

"We're taking inspiration from everywhere," Washington Football Team President Jason Wright, who was touring SoFi Stadium with Snyder, told TMZ. "If we're going to do something that our fans really deserve, which is cutting-edge and innovative, we’ve got to take in all these ideas.”

As for deciding on a permanent name change for the Washington Football Team, Wright said that could happen “pretty soon."

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