Old Patriots Stadium
It serves as the home stadium and administrative offices for both the new england patriots of the national football league and the new england revolution of major league soccer.
Old patriots stadium. Official site of the home stadium of the new england revolution. Foxboro stadium originally schaefer stadium and later sullivan stadium was an outdoor stadium located in foxborough massachusetts united states. In 1989 karp and kraft together purchased the old patriots stadium in foxborough in bankruptcy court. The stadium was the site of several games in both the 1994 fifa world cup and the 1999 fifa womens world cup.
The stadium was originally known as cmgi field before the n. It was also the home stadium for university of massachusetts minutemen football in 2012 and 2013 while on campus warren mcguirk alumni stadium underwent renovations. For more information call 908 252 0700. Foxboro ma was chosen as the site for a stadium for the patriots.
At the time the partners looked at retail potential for the land but karp was busy building. Soon enough the new england patriots would be playing in sparkling new gillette stadium. The somerset patriots are a professional baseball club that provides affordable family fun in central new jersey. They compete in the national football league nfl as a member team of the leagues american football conference afc east division.
Offers directions ticket information and a 3d seat viewer. Indeed june 1 marks 15 years to the day that demolition of old foxboro stadium was completed. The new england patriots are a professional american football team based in the greater boston area. Construction began on september 23 1970 and was completed in just under a year for the start of the 1971 nfl season.
The approximately 62000 seat foxboro stadium opened in 1971 to host the newly renamed new england patriots. Foxboro stadium was demolish. It was originally named schaefer stadium after the schaefer brewing company. The team plays its home games at gillette stadium in the town of foxborough massachusetts which is located 28 miles 45 km southwest of downtown boston.
It has become sort of a town within a town. No public funding was used to construct the 71 million stadium. The current gillette stadium is across from foxboro which closed in early 2002.