Chiefs announce move to Kansas with new domed stadium project for 2031

The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs made a significant announcement on Monday once they introduced their transfer from Missouri and Arrowhead Stadium to a brand new domed stadium in Kansas.

The Chiefs, at the side of Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in a joint assertion from proprietor and chairman Clark Hunt, stated the staff will head to Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, following a gathering of the Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council.

“At this time we’re excited to take one other essential step for the way forward for the franchise,” Hunt’s announcement learn. “We’ve entered into an settlement with the State of Kansas to host Chiefs soccer starting with the 2031 NFL season.

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A common view of an empty GEHA area at Arrowhead Stadium previous to the beginning of the sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens at GEHA Discipline at Arrowhead Stadium on September 5, 2024 in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Photographs)

“Within the coming years, we stay up for designing and constructing a state-of-the-art domed stadium and mixed-use district in Wyandotte County, and a best-in-class coaching facility, staff headquarters and mixed-use district in Olathe, totaling no less than $4 billion in improvement within the state of Kansas.”

Kelly added, “This settlement to convey the Chiefs to Kansas takes our state to the following stage. With this new stadium, we’ll create hundreds of jobs, appeal to vacationers from around the globe, appeal to younger individuals, and most significantly, we’ll proceed to make Kansas the perfect place in America to boost a household. This can be a game-changer for Kansas, and it’s a sign to America and the world that the way forward for our state may be very vivid.”

The Chiefs will stay at Arrowhead Stadium on a lease by way of the 2030 season. However there will definitely be bittersweet emotions contemplating how lengthy the Chiefs have performed of their present hometown.

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Since 1972, the Chiefs have performed at Arrowhead Stadium, which the late Lamar Hunt was instrumental in constructing in Missouri. Nonetheless, right now it’s the oldest stadium within the NFL.

However the huge query for soccer followers stays: why are the Chiefs transferring?

It has been an ongoing debate for some time, however in the end it comes all the way down to who will assist the Chiefs extra in constructing their house of the long run. Kansas surpassed Missouri, and the previous state’s STAR (Gross sales Tax and Income) bonds will cowl as much as 70% of the price of the brand new stadium.

Missouri authorized a plan final summer season that may pay for as much as half the price of new stadiums for not solely the Chiefs but additionally the MLB’s Kansas Metropolis Royals.

A common view previous to the AFC Championship NFL soccer sport between the Buffalo Payments and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at GEHA Discipline at Arrowhead Stadium on January 26, 2025 in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. (Todd Rosenberg/Getty Photographs)

The Chiefs and Royals share the identical house on the Truman Sports activities Complicated, however the baseball group desires to construct its personal new house and depart Kauffman Stadium up to now. The Royals weren’t concerned in Monday’s announcement.

Voters in Jackson County, the jurisdiction that owns the Truman Sports activities Complicated, blocked an extension of a 3/8-cent gross sales tax that may have funded enhancements to Arrowhead Stadium whereas serving to finance a brand new Royals stadium. As such, each franchises had been pressured to have a look at different choices, and the Chiefs have taken an enormous step right here.

“The profit to the complete area can be monumental,” Hunt’s announcement continued. “A stadium of this caliber will put Kansas Metropolis within the operating for Tremendous Bowls, Remaining Fours and different world-class occasions. A model new coaching facility and headquarters will enable the Chiefs to proceed attracting high expertise. And the imaginative and prescient for a brand new mixed-use district will rival that of any sports activities improvement within the nation.”

To proceed Hunt’s assertion above, a domed stadium not solely makes the brand new Chiefs stadium a possible Tremendous Bowl vacation spot, however might additionally play host to many different sporting and cultural occasions sooner or later.

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Hunt did acknowledge how troublesome it will likely be to say goodbye to the town and the place his father labored so laborious to convey to Missourians and so many others who’ve supported the Chiefs for many years.

“It is going to be laborious to say goodbye to Arrowhead Stadium in just a few years. Like so lots of you, Arrowhead jogs my memory of household reminiscences and unforgettable moments. However the fact is, what makes Chiefs sport days so particular is you. Seats do not make noise, concrete would not intimidate opponents, parking tons do not boil for barbecue. You do.”

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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