Georgia Dome

About Georgia Dome

Georgia Dome was a College Football and NFL stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. It opened in 1992 and closed in 2017. It was designed by Heery International. Its last recorded capacity was 74,228. Tenants included Atlanta Falcons (NFL, 1992–2016) and Georgia State Panthers (College Football, 2010–2016). On our ranked lists it ranks 83rd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 83rd shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 28th shortest-lived of 139 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 11th shortest-lived of 55 NFL stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 39th longest single tenancy (24 years) of the 101 longest on record in NFL stadiums
• 20th shortest-lived of 107 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

The site today

• The site is now part of The Home Depot Backyard, a park.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Game results are on record only for top-division college football seasons; other seasons count toward seasons here but not toward the record.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 3 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, football layout, Capacity, basketball layout.