page_title: Movable seating
section_title: Stadiums with movable seating
hierarchical_section_title: Movable seating / Stadiums with movable seating
caption_attribution_description: Panoramic image (composed of 6 smaller images) of Telstra Stadium (empty, during tour) in October 2005. Stadium is in oval configuration with Rugby goal posts. As a guide, the Rugby goal posts are 100 metres apart (approx. 110 yards).
context_page_description: Movable seating is a feature of some facilities like stadiums, often known as convertible stadiums, or moduable stadiums. It allows for the movement of parts of the grandstand to allow for a change of the playing surface shape. This allows games that use various shaped playing surfaces such as an oval field, for cricket and/or Australian rules football; or a rectangular field, for football, rugby league, rugby union, American football, and/or Canadian football; or a diamond field, for baseball; to be played in the same stadium. This is particularly useful in Australia and the United States, where various professional sports with varying field configurations are popular spectator pastimes. The process of conversion from one form to another is time-consuming – depending on the stadium it can take from 8 to 80 hours. Many stadiums were built in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s to host both baseball and American football.
context_section_description: Allianz Park, the stadium that is the most notable structure within the Barnet Copthall leisure complex in London, UK, has movable seating that was installed for the benefit of its primary tenant, the Saracens rugby union club, in a renovation that was completed in early 2013. The movable stands allow the stadium to continue to serve in its original role as an athletics (track and field) venue.
  Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, opened in 1975, and has four movable sections allowing it to be reconfigured for baseball, American football, soccer, or concerts. However, the stadium managers permanently locked the stands in the football configuration effective in 2007, citing maintenance costs for the equipment used to move the sections.
  ANZ Stadium (Stadium Australia) was the Olympic Stadium at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia. Post-Olympics during 2001–2003, it was re-configured and movable seating was implemented allowing the stadium to transition between a rectangular or an oval playing surface. Once the redevelopment is complete in 2021, the stadium's rectangular configuration will be permanently locked as a Football-only stadium.
  Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, USA, home of the Miami Dolphins (National Football League) and Miami Hurricanes (NCAA football), originally had a movable stand used to accommodate the then-Florida Marlins (National League). The now-Miami Marlins opened a new stadium of their own, Marlins Park, following which the movable stand was permanently locked into a football-only configuration. This stand was later demolished in a 2015 reconstruction of the stadium's lower bowl.
  London Stadium, formerly known as Olympic Stadium in London, England, UK, was originally built for the 2012 Summer Olympics with fixed seating, but movable sections were added to provide optimal configurations for its original purpose of athletics, association football and concerts. West Ham United F.C. moved into the reconfigured venue starting in the 2016–17 season.
  Marvel Stadium (Docklands Stadium) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was completed in 1999. Features such as movable seating and a retractable roof allow for the venue to host many sports and entertainment events. It is also the first stadium in Australia to have this feature.
  Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, USA, home to the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and Major League Soccer's Atlanta United since August 2017, has retractable lower-bowl seats along the sidelines. This allows an appropriate playing area for soccer, whose regulation field is nearly 20 meters wider than that of American football.
  Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, has two movable sections allowing it to be reconfigured for baseball, Canadian football, soccer and concerts.
  Optus Stadium in Perth, Australia, a venue built with an oval pitch for cricket and Australian rules football, has several "drop-in" movable seating areas positioned to "fill in" much of the sides of the pitch when the venue is used for rectangular-field sports.
  Paris La Défense Arena, located near the La Défense business district in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, opened in October 2017 after many delays, with its main tenant, the Racing 92 rugby union club, moving in that December. The stadium features a movable seating block that allows it to accommodate field or court sports.
  RingCentral Coliseum (historically the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, and also known in the past by several other sponsored names) in Oakland, California, USA, has been the home venue for the Oakland Raiders (National Football League) and Oakland Athletics (American League) for most of its existence, and thus has movable seating. However, the Raiders relocated to Las Vegas after the 2019 season, leaving baseball as the only sport regularly played at the Coliseum.
  Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C., USA, used movable seating to accommodate two different pairs of teams:
  Starting in 1962, the year after the stadium opened, the NFL's Washington Redskins and the second incarnation of the Washington Senators
caption: Stadium Australia showing a configuration of seating in progress.
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