Highmark Stadium

About Highmark Stadium

Highmark Stadium is an NFL stadium in Town of Orchard Park, New York. It opened in 1973. It seats 63,000. Its current tenant is Buffalo Bills (NFL), since 1973. By capacity it ranks 28th of 30 current NFL venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 154th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use and 5th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names. It has also been known as Rich Stadium (1973–1997), Ralph Wilson Stadium (1998–2015), New Era Field (2016–2019) and Bills Stadium (2020).

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• 154th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 5th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 148th oldest of 267 football stadiums still in use
• 3rd for most name changes among 68 football stadiums with 3 or more names
• 2nd for most name changes among 25 NFL stadiums with 3 or more names
• 4th longest single tenancy (53 years) of the 101 longest on record in NFL stadiums

Venue Information

Address 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.

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.

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Sources

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

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Address.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 440 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC0): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity.