Multi - purpose stadium Multi - purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events . While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event , this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi - functionality over specificity . It is used most commonly in Canada and the United States where the two most popular outdoor team sports , gridiron football and baseball , require radically different facilities . Football uses a rectangular field ( Canadian football fields are larger than American ones ) while baseball is played on a diamond . This requires a particular design to accommodate both , usually an oval . While building stadiums in this way means that sports teams and governments can share costs , it also imposes some challenges . In North America , multi - purpose stadiums were built primarily during the 1960s and 1970s as shared home stadiums for Major League Baseball and National Football League or Canadian Football League teams . Some stadiums were renovated to allow multi - purpose configurations during the 1980s . This type of stadium is associated with an era of suburbanization , in which many sports teams followed their fans out of large cities into areas with cheaper , plentiful land . They were usually built near highways and had large parking lot s but not often connected to public transit . As multi - purpose stadiums were rarely ideal for both sports usually housed in them , they had fallen out of favor by the 1990s . With the opening of the Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City , a model for purpose - built stadiums was laid down . Since Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened in 1992 , most major league sports stadiums have been built specifically for one sport . Outside North America , the term is rarely used since soccer is the only major outdoor team sport in many countries , in some countries soccer and rugby can easily co - exist , with Australia and South Africa being notable examples . In other countries , such as England and France , teams rarely share facilities . In Australia , many sports grounds are suited to both Australian rules football and cricket , which both use oval fields . History in the United States . Several stadiums hosted multiple sports teams prior to the advent of multi - purpose stadiums . In New York City , the Polo Grounds hosted football teams early on , and although the stadium was ostensibly designed for polo , its rectangular nature lent itself well to football and was also , with somewhat less of a fit , used for baseball . The original configuration of Yankee Stadium was specifically designed to accommodate football as well as track and field ( it was Yankee Stadium that popularized the warning track , originally designed as a running track , around baseball fields ) , in addition to its primary usage for baseball . Wrigley Field , while originally built for baseball , also hosted the Chicago Bears , just as Comiskey Park hosted the Chicago Cardinals and Tiger Stadium hosted the Detroit Lions . Later venues such as Cleveland Stadium and Baltimore Memorial Stadium were built to accommodate both baseball and football . In the 1960s , multi - purpose stadiums began replacing their baseball - only and football - only predecessors , now known as " Classics " or " Jewel Box " parks . The advantage to a multi - purpose stadium is that a singular infrastructure and piece of real estate can support both teams in terms of transportation and playing area , and money ( often public money ) that would have been spent to support infrastructure for two stadiums could be spent elsewhere . Also playing into the advent of the multi - purpose stadium was Americans ' growing use of automobiles as a form of transportation , and therefore the need for professional sports stadiums to accommodate parking . As most cities lacked the space to construct the stadiums with necessary parking lots near their city centers , most multi - purpose stadiums were built in suburbs , away from the city centers but near freeways or highways . A subset of the multipurpose stadiums were the so - called " cookie - cutter stadiums " or " concrete donuts " which were all very similar in design . They featured a completely circular or nearly circular design , and accommodated both baseball and football by rotating sections of the box seat areas to fit the respective playing fields . These fields often used artificial turf , as it could withstand the reconfiguration process more easily or be removed for non - sporting events , plus it could be used in domes , which many of these stadiums were . The first of these stadiums was RFK Stadium . It was followed during the 1960s and 1970s by Shea Stadium , Atlanta - Fulton County Stadium , Oakland - Alameda County Coliseum ( now O . co Colisem ) , the Astrodome , San Diego Stadium ( now Qualcomm Stadium ) , Riverfront Stadium , Busch Memorial Stadium , Three Rivers Stadium , Veterans Stadium and the Kingdome . Seven of these eleven stadiums have been demolished , most often by implosion ; only RFK , Oakland - Alameda County Coliseum , and San Diego remain in use ; the Astrodome , while still standing , has been disused since 2008 because of fire code violations . The Hubert H . Humphrey Metrodome was unique in that it was one of the few air - supported dome stadiums that was multi - purpose in practice , being convertible between football and baseball . Still home of the Minnesota Vikings , it was also home to the Minnesota Twins until 2009 and the Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team ( NCAA , although repairs forced the team out for the 2011 season ) . Most other inflatable domes , like the Hoosier Dome and Pontiac Silverdome , were football - only stadiums . During the height of the multi - purpose stadium construction era of the 1960s and 1970s , four baseball - only stadiums were constructed : Candlestick Park ( 1960 ) , Dodger Stadium ( 1962 ) , Anaheim Stadium ( 1966 ; now Angel Stadium of Anaheim ) , and Royals Stadium ( 1973 ; now Kauffman Stadium ) . Anaheim Stadium was , however , renovated into a multi - purpose stadium in 1980 to accommodate the Los Angeles Rams ' move from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , and renovated back into a baseball - only facility in 1997 , three years after the Rams ' departure for St . Louis . Similarly , Candlestick Park was renovated into a multi - purpose stadium in 1970 to accommodate the San Francisco 49ers ' move from Kezar Stadium and converted to football only after the San Francisco Giants moved to their new ballpark in 2000 . The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games ( ACOG ) built Centennial Olympic Stadium in a way that it could be converted to a new baseball stadium , and ACOG paid for the conversion . This was considered a good agreement for both the Olympic Committee and the Braves , because there would be no use for a permanent 85 , 000 seat track and field stadium in Downtown Atlanta , as the 71 , 000 seat Georgia Dome had been completed 4 years earlier by the state of Georgia . Furthermore , the Braves had already been exploring opportunities for a new venue to replace Atlanta Fulton County Stadium . The southwest corner of the Olympic Stadium was built to accommodate the future baseball infield and seating . This is easily seen in aerial views and diagrams of the stadium in its Olympic configuration , where the seats are not placed next to the oval running track . The southwest part of the stadium also had four tiers of seats , luxury box es , a facade facing the street , and a roof , whereas the north half of the stadium used a simpler two - tiered seating configuration . During reconstruction , the athletics track was removed , and the north half of the stadium was demolished , reducing the capacity to 49 , 000 when it reopened as Turner Field . Because of the need to fit a track within the stadium in its earlier incarnation , the field of play , particularly foul territory , while not large by historical standards , is still larger than most new MLB stadiums . As of April 2012 , Oakland ' s O . co Coliseum is the last multi - purpose stadium to serve as a full - time home to both an MLB team and an NFL team . History in Canada . In Canada several large multi - sport stadiums were built during this style ' s heyday . However , unlike in the United States , there has never been an NFL team based primarily in Canada ( though , currently the Buffalo Bills play some home games in Toronto ) and there have only ever been two MLB teams , so teams from these leagues have not been the major impetus behind stadium construction ( with the notable exception of Toronto ) . Instead , stadiums were built primarily for Canadian Football League teams and to host multi - sport event s , such as the Olympics , Commonwealth Games and Pan - American Games . Three of Canada ' s largest stadiums from this era and type feature domed roofs or retractable roofs , namely BC Place in Vancouver , SkyDome / Rogers Centre in Toronto , and Olympic Stadium in Montreal . BC Place is capable of hosting baseball but has been primarily a football venue . Rogers Centre was built to accommodate baseball ( MLB ' s Toronto Blue Jays play there ) , but has also been a football venue its entire life . Montreal ' s Olympic Stadium was built primarily for a multi - sport event ( the 1976 Summer Olympics , during which it hosted the track and field events and the soccer final ) rather than for professional team sports , but it later became the home of the Montreal Alouettes football team and the Montreal Expos baseball team , and began serving as an alternate home to the Montreal Impact when that team entered Major League Soccer in 2012 . Similarly the open - air Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton was constructed for the 1978 Commonwealth Games but has also become home of the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL . It has also hosted many soccer events , as well as the 2003 Heritage Classic , the first major outdoor ice hockey event in Canada . Pan American Stadium , set to begin construction in 2013 , is being primarily built for the 2015 Pan American Games , but is also being constructed with the purposes of being the new home of the Hamilton Tiger - Cats football team ; its predecessor , Ivor Wynne Stadium , was originally built for the first Commonwealth Games . Other Canadian cities never expressed interest in building a venue for Major League Baseball or the Summer Olympics , and felt no need to replace their smaller open - air stadiums used mostly for Canadian football . For example , Calgary ' s open - air McMahon Stadium dates from 1960 and has been used only for Canadian football , the 1988 Winter Olympics , and an outdoor ice hockey event ( the 2011 Heritage Classic ) . Similar situations hold in Ottawa , Winnipeg , Hamilton , and Regina . There are no large stadiums of any kind in cities like Quebec City , London , or Saskatoon , or in Atlantic Canada ; in those places ( with the exception of Saskatoon ) , smaller stadiums ( less than 13 , 000 seats ) exist that can be augmented with temporary seating to bring their capacities close to that of the smaller CFL stadiums . Outside North America . The idea of a sharp difference between a multi - purpose stadium and a single - sport stadium is less important outside of North America , since in most countries stadiums that are constructed with association football ( soccer ) in mind are easily able to accommodate rugby , athletics ( track and field ) , or other sports with a similar sized playing field . For example , any large stadium in most of Latin America , part of Asia , most of Africa , or continental Europe is likely to be used mostly for soccer . The majority of the largest stadia in the world were built for either association football or American football . The regions where other outdoor sports can draw numbers comparable to association football or American football are limited . They include : baseball in Japan and the Spanish Caribbean ; cricket in England , Australia , the Anglophone Caribbean , and the Indian subcontinent ; rugby ( union or league ) in Wales , England , South Africa , New Zealand , Fiji , and parts of Australia and France ; Aussie rules football in Australia ; bandy in Russia and Scandinavia ; and Gaelic games in Ireland . However even in these areas the amount of compromise needed to accommodate multiple sports varies considerably . Most outdoor team sports have a rectangular playing field , but cricket and Aussie rules fields are rounded , while baseball is played in a diamond . This makes them much harder to accommodate within a rectangular - shaped stadium . Likewise , accommodating athletics ( track and field ) , such as for an Olympic games , means constructing a rounded 400m track around the infield . This often means the sports simply find it easier to play in separate stadia . In the case of Ireland , grounds built for Gaelic games can accommodate soccer and the rugby codes without modification , except for the physical goals ; the pitch is both longer and wider than that of soccer or either rugby code . However , opposition to those sports within large parts of the Gaelic games community , most notably manifested in GAA Rule 42 , means that soccer and rugby clubs have generally had to play in separate grounds . True multi - sport facilities , where teams from a variety of sports use the same stadium as their home ground , exist outside North America in a few cases , most of those smaller stadiums . A handful are notable for having 60 , 000 seats or more . Melbourne Cricket Ground and ANZ Stadium host cricket , Australian rules football , and association football , and ANZ Stadium also hosts several major rugby league events . Wembley Stadium in London , Stade de France near Paris , and Millennium Stadium in Cardiff are not the permanent homes to any club teams , but are used primarily for international competitions and major tournament finals , mostly for association football , but also for rugby , and the opening and closing ceremonies of multi - sport events such as the 2012 Summer Olympics . In South Africa , Soccer City and Ellis Park Stadium have hosted rugby union and soccer , while Moses Mabhida Stadium has hosted soccer and cricket . Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Kochi in India hosts cricket and association football . Eden Park in New Zealand hosts rugby union and cricket . Westpac Stadium in Wellington , NZ hosts rugby union , rugby league , cricket , football , and is due to host Australian rules football in 2013 . The architects Arup cited history that a rarely used athletics track does not work with football , such as the Stadio delle Alpi and the Munich Olympic Stadium , with both and Bayern Munich moving to new stadiums less than 40 years after inheriting them . The delle Alpi ' s design was criticised as it left spectators exposed to the elements and the long distance between the stands and the pitch resulting in poor visibility . This was because the athletics track , which was seldom used , was constructed around the outside of the pitch , while views from the lower tier were also restricted due to the positioning of advertising boardings . These factors contributed to low attendances ; only 237 spectators showed up for the Coppa Italia home match against Sampdoria in the 2001 – 02 season , while in the 2005 – 06 season the average attendance was 35 , 880 . Manchester City Council wished to avoid creating a white elephant , so to give the stadium long - term financial viability , extensive work was carried out to convert the City of Manchester Stadium from a field and track arena to a football stadium . The old Estádio da Luz was demolished so that the football - specific replacement could be built on the site as part of Portugal ' s bid to host Euro 2004 . German stadiums such as the AWD - Arena , Commerzbank - Arena , Mercedes - Benz Arena , RheinEnergieStadion , Volksparkstadion , and Zentralstadion also underwent reconstruction / renovation by removing the running track to become football - only venues , several of these projects were done in preparation for the 2006 FIFA World Cup . Field layout . Most multi - purpose stadiums that existed in North America overlaid one sideline of the football field along one of the baseball foul lines , with one corner of the football field being located where home plate would be . Because the length of a regulation American football field is 360 feet , longer than the approximately 330 - foot average for Major League Baseball , this requires an unusually long distance from the home plate to the fence along the foul line on which the football field is constructed , part of the football field to be constructed in foul territory ( and the size of said territory to be increased accordingly ) , or a temporary wall . O . co Coliseum uses a configuration such that its football sideline runs along a line drawn from first base to third base ( the former Atlanta - Fulton County Stadium also used this configuration ) . This was done presumably to make the same coveted seats behind home plate at a baseball game also coveted 50 - yard line seats at a football game , and also so that the stadium would need only one press box . Different stadiums have different angles between the left and right field seats . In stadiums that were primarily football stadiums that converted to baseball stadiums , the stands were at nearly right angles . This allowed the football field to be squared within the bleachers , but left the baseball configuration with many undesirable views farther away from home plate or facing away from the diamond , such as at the Kingdome , the Hubert H . Humphrey Metrodome and Sun Life Stadium . For stadiums such as the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , this also had the undesirable effect of having implausibly short foul lines , making it unacceptably easy to hit home runs . Baseball stadiums that converted to football stadiums had more of an obtuse angle between the stands . This made the football viewing farther away , and in some cases partially obscured as in Candlestick Park . In the case of Qualcomm Stadium , the stadium was constructed with half of the Field - level seating permanent ( built of concrete , in the southern quadrant of the stadium ) , and the other half portable ( modular construction using aluminum or steel framing ) . When the stadium was configured for baseball , the portable sections would be placed in the western quadrant of the stadium and serve as the third - base half of the infield . In the football configuration , these are placed in the northern quadrant of the stadium ( covering what is used as left field in the baseball configuration ) to allow for the football field to be laid out east - west . This had the advantage of improving sightlines for both sports while keeping the baseball dimensions roughly symmetrical . Criticisms . While multi - purpose stadiums were intended to easily accommodate both American football and baseball ( and in some cases , football ) , the fundamentally different sizes and shapes of the playing fields made them inadequate for either sport . When used for baseball , the lower - level boxes were usually set back much further from the field than comparable seats in baseball - only parks because they swiveled into position for football and soccer . In the case of stadiums that hosted both baseball and Canadian football , the lower boxes were set even further back than their American counterparts because Canadian football fields are 30 yards longer and considerably wider than their American counterparts . The upper - level seats were as far as 600 feet from the plate . For football , the seats nearest the field were set farther back than at football - only stadiums to accommodate the larger baseball field . In general , spectator sightlines were not optimized for either sport , i . e . , seats were angled towards the center of the field rather than towards the logical center of the gameplay action ( home plate for baseball and the 50 - yard line for football ) . Likewise , attempts to build stadiums without support columns to obstruct spectators ' views , as was the case with jewel box stadiums , resulted in upper decks being placed very high above the field . Many multi - purpose stadiums also had artificial turf playing surfaces , to ease the transition from baseball field to football field and vice - versa . In many cases , the turf was nothing more than carpet on top of concrete with little padding material , which caused frequent injuries to players . During the first month of the football season , the playing field would include the infield dirt that is harder than the grass and is also a significant injury risk . In the baseball configuration , most had symmetrical field dimensions . This detracted from the unique , individual identity enjoyed by the Jewel Box stadiums with odd or asymmetrical field dimensions , and further supported the " cookie cutter stadium " nickname . Fans also criticized the large parking lots surrounding the stadiums as well as their concrete or painted concrete façades as uninviting . The suburban locales of many multi - purpose stadiums ( as well as other sport - specific stadiums also built there ) were also a focal point for criticism , as they were often no longer in the municipality the teams represent , especially if the stadium is built across a state border . One of the most famous examples is Giants Stadium , which primarily hosted football but was also a soccer stadium at times ; its primary tenants were nominally based in New York , but Giants Stadium was neither in New York City or even New York State , instead being built in the meadowlands of East Rutherford , New Jersey . Soccer was perceived as an especially bad fit for this type of stadium due to the fact that , in the United States , the sport does not draw as many fans to games as American football or baseball ( with the partial exception of Seattle ) , resulting to the stadium being filled to only a fraction of its capacity . This led to the soccer - specific stadium movement . Scheduling was also a big issue since the MLB postseason overlaps with the NFL regular season . If a baseball team advances in the postseason to the point where it is scheduled to play a postseason game on the same day the football team plays a home game , adjustments had to be made such as having the game moved to Monday night or , if a division opponent was scheduled , have the game sites switched putting the upcoming meeting on the road and playing the home game during the latter meeting . An example of the former happening was during in 1997 when the Florida Marlins played game 7 of the World Series at home on Sunday , Oct . 26 , which moved the Miami Dolphins game against the Chicago Bears to Monday night . An example of the latter happening was in 1989 when the San Francisco Giants hosted a postseason game on Sunday , Oct . 8 against the Chicago Cubs , the same day the San Francisco 49ers were scheduled to host their division rival New Orleans Saints . The Oct . 8 game was moved to New Orleans and the Nov . 6 game was moved to San Francisco . Replacement and retention . The first real departure from the multipurpose stadium design occurred in 1972 , when the Jackson County Sports Authority in Kansas City , Missouri opened the Truman Sports Complex , which houses Kauffman Stadium ( named Royals Stadium at the time of opening ) and Arrowhead Stadium . The Truman Sports Complex was the first example of multiple stadiums being built for specific sports at the same time . The designers , Kivett and Myers , were then absorbed by Kansas City architecture firm Hellmuth , Obata and Kassabaum to become HOK Sport + Venue + Event ( now the independent firm Populous ) , who went on to design many pro sports venues in the United States . Though hailed as revolutionary at the time , the Truman Sports Complex model of stadium design was widely ignored for the next twenty years , though the influence of both Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums were easily seen in venues such as Giants Stadium . The true end of the multi - purpose era began in 1987 , when Buffalo ' s Pilot Field , a stadium built for the Buffalo Bisons minor league baseball team and a potential MLB expansion franchise , opened . During the 1990s and 2000s , most of the multipurpose stadiums used for Major League Baseball in the United States were replaced ( most , but not all , of those replaced have been demolished ) by " retro " style ballparks . These parks come in two varieties : " retro - classic " parks , which combine the interior and exterior design of the " classic " ballparks with the amenities of newer facilities ; and " retro - modern " parks , which have modern amenities and " retro " interiors but have modern exterior designs . The first " retro - classic " park in Major League Baseball was Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore , which opened in 1992 and was based mostly on the Pilot Field design . ( Comiskey Park had opened a year earlier in Chicago , but it was very modernist in its design and had little in common with the later retro - classic parks . However , due to extensive renovations over the years , Comiskey Park now enjoys many of the same amenities . ) The " retro - modern " park made its first appearance in with the opening of Jacobs Field , in Cleveland . Many football teams that shared a stadium with a baseball team had their stadiums converted into football - only facilities shortly after the baseball tenant left ( e . g . , Qualcomm Stadium ) , while other football teams followed in the footsteps of their baseball counterparts and had new football - only stadiums constructed . The widespread adoption of FieldTurf and similar modern artificial turfs beginning in the early 2000s also has had a role in the decline of the multi - purpose stadium . While first - generation , short - pile turfs such as AstroTurf lent themselves well to multiple sports ( one could have a turf for football , roll it up and replace it with one for baseball , soccer or lacrosse ) , this was not the case with FieldTurf and its competitors . Modern artificial turf requires a more permanent installation , including sand and rubber base and / or infill that is not easily removed , and thus does not lend itself well to multi - purpose stadiums . Because of such turfs ' superiority in other features compared to the earlier turfs , it has been seen as easier to build new stadiums for each sport rather than attempt to share an inflexible turf installation among multiple sports . The Miami Marlins , who changed their name from the original Florida Marlins in November 2011 , moved to Marlins Park , a new retractable roof stadium in Miami , in 2012 . Sun Life Stadium is soon to be renovated to eliminate its baseball functionality , making it a football - only stadium . With the Marlins ' relocation , the Oakland Athletics are the only team left in the U . S . still sharing a stadium with an NFL team ( the Oakland Raiders ) , O . co Coliseum . The A ' s and Raiders are both seeking new places to play ; the A ' s recently commenced plans to build Cisco Field . The Raiders have no concrete plans to move , but have suggested a move back to Los Angeles , where they played from 1982 to 1994 . There have also been suggestions for the Raiders to share the proposed new 49ers stadium in Santa Clara with the San Francisco 49ers . The Raiders ' lease on the Coliseum expires after the 2013 season . Currently , soccer - specific stadium s are now required by North America ' s three main soccer leagues , Major League Soccer , the North American Soccer League and USL Pro . In Canada , smaller , more specialized stadiums have generally become more popular , but none of the major multi - use stadiums of the 1970s and 1980s have been demolished . The Toronto Blue Jays currently share Rogers Centre with the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL and began sharing the facility on a part - time basis with the Buffalo Bills of the NFL in August 2008 . The Toronto Argonauts have twice publicly announced plans to leave Rogers Centre only to end up staying , though Toronto FC built their own , soccer - specific facility , BMO Field . The Blue Jays presently do not have any plans to leave Rogers Centre . BC Place in Vancouver is still used by the BC Lions and was also the Olympic Stadium for the 2010 Winter Olympics , although the Lions played their 2010 season at the temporary Empire Field while BC Place was being renovated to replace the original air - supported roof with a retractable roof . The Vancouver Whitecaps , which entered Major League Soccer in 2011 , shared Empire Field and are sharing the renovated BC Place with the Lions . This was intended to be a temporary arrangement until the MLS team could build their own Whitecaps Stadium , but local opposition to the planned stadium has led the Whitecaps to make BC Place a long - term home . The Montreal Expos ' owners often cited the inadequacy of Olympic Stadium as a reason for the team ' s financial troubles which eventually led to relocation to Washington , D . C . The Montreal Alouettes moved out of Olympic Stadium to Molson Stadium . In soccer , the original Montreal Impact built the smaller Saputo Stadium , which was expanded to accommodate the team ' s 2012 entry into MLS . Both the Alouettes and Impact continue to use Olympic Stadium for playoff games and other special events when extra capacity is needed . Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton received major upgrades to host the 2001 World Championships in Athletics , and continues to host the Edmonton Eskimos , but is not hosting the new soccer team , FC Edmonton , which began play in 2011 . An added benefit of single - sport stadiums that was impossible with the " concrete donut " design of the multi - purpose stadiums is improved panoramic views of areas outside the stadium , such as mountains , bodies of water , or city skylines . Examples include CenturyLink Field and Safeco Field , which replaced the Kingdome in Seattle , and Heinz Field and PNC Park , which replaced Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh . Still , however , several modern baseball - specific stadiums are able to be ( and have been ) converted for football use . In addition to the aforementioned Safeco Field , which has hosted occasional college football games , San Francisco ' s AT & T Park ( which hosted the XFL ' s San Francisco Demons and hosts the annual Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl , and hosted California Golden Bears football games in the 2011 season while that team ' s stadium was being renovated ) , Phoenix ' s Chase Field ( which hosted the Insight Bowl from 2000 – 2005 ) , and St . Petersburg ' s Tropicana Field ( which was built as a baseball specific stadium but began hosting a college bowl game in 2008 ) have all been used to host professional and college games since they were built ; Tropicana Field , being an indoor stadium , has also hosted the Tampa Bay Lightning ice hockey team for a time . ( It should also be noted that Nationals Park in Washington , D . C . , was to be the original host of the EagleBank Bowl before that game was moved to RFK Stadium ) Yankee Stadium hosts the Pinstripe Bowl and occasional college football and soccer matches . Furthermore , some teams in the United Football League have played their home schedule at a baseball - specific stadium . The California Redwoods played their home games at the aforementioned AT & T Park ; though they moved to a football stadium in Sacramento ( Sacramento Mountain Lions ) in 2010 and 2011 , they moved back to a baseball park ( this time Raley Field ) for 2012 . Although their home field was the Citrus Bowl in Orlando , the Florida Tuskers played one 2009 home game at Tropicana Field . The team has since moved to the Hampton Roads area as the Virginia Destroyers and is now playing in a soccer - specific stadium . The Omaha Nighthawks played their inaugural 2010 season at a baseball park , Rosenblatt Stadium , and will play in Rosenblatt ' s baseball - specific replacement , TD Ameritrade Park Omaha , for the foreseeable future .