Land Shark Stadium

About Land Shark Stadium

Land Shark Stadium is a former name of Hard Rock Stadium, used 2009. Hard Rock Stadium is a College Football and NFL stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It opened in 1987. It was designed by HOK and Populous. It seats 64,767 in its football layout. Its current tenants are Miami Dolphins (NFL) and Miami Hurricanes (College Football). Former tenants include Florida Marlins (MLB, 1993–2011) and Florida Atlantic Owls (College Football, 2002). In all, 4 teams from 3 leagues have called it home. By capacity it ranks 25th of 30 current NFL venues and 32nd of 256 current College Football venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 199th oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use, 1st for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names and 9th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams. It has also been known as Joe Robbie Stadium (1987–1995), Pro Player Park/Stadium (1996–2004), Dolphin(s) Stadium (2005–2008) and Sun Life Stadium (2010–2015).

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• 199th oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 1st for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names
• 9th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams
• 191st oldest of 281 football stadiums still in use
• 1st for most name changes among 71 football stadiums with 3 or more names
• 10th for most tenants among 22 football stadiums with 3 or more teams
• 11th longest single tenancy (39 years) of the 101 longest on record in NFL stadiums
• 1st for most name changes among 20 MLB stadiums with 3 or more names
• 64th longest single tenancy (18 years) of the 100 longest on record in MLB stadiums

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.

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 Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• 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 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity.