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Reliant Stadium
Location	One Reliant Park Houston, Texas 77054
Broke ground	March 2000
Opened	August 24, 2002
Closed	Open
Owner	Harris County, Texas
Surface	Grass
Construction cost	$352 million
Architect	HOK Sport
Former names
N/A
Tenants
Houston Texans (NFL) (2002-present) Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (a.k.a, HSLR) (2002-present) Texas Bowl (2006-present)
Capacity
71,500

Reliant Stadium is a football stadium in Houston, Texas. It is the home for the Houston Texans of the NFL and host to many international soccer matches for the USA and Mexican National Soccer Teams. The stadium has also served as the host facility for Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004. College Football's Texas Bowl and East-West Shrine Game are also hosted at the stadium each yearly. In addition to football the stadium hosts the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for three weeks in February and March each year.

The seating capacity of the stadium is 71,500. It was the first stadium in the NFL to have a retractable roof.

Contents 1 Professional Football 2 College Football 3 International Football (Soccer) 4 College Basketball 5 Reliant Park 6 Other special events 7 External links

The Texans have played their home game at Reliant Stadium since their inception in 2002. The annual calendar consists of 8 regular season and 2 pre-season games, plus any playoff games the Texans might host. It also hosted Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004. The game saw the New England Patriots defeat the Carolina Panthers, 32-29, and site of the controversial Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show.

The first game played was on August 24, 2002, as the Texans played the Miami Dolphins in their first preseason game. The first regular season game was played on September 8 of that year, where the expansion Texans defeated the Dallas Cowboys in an upset.

College Football's Texas Bowl and East-West Shrine Game are annually hosted at the stadium. The stadium hosted the Houston Bowl prior to the Texas Bowl's inception and also hosted the 2002 and 2005 Big 12 Conference Championship games. Texas Southern University also plays some of their home games there.

The first-ever Texas Bowl in December 2006 featured an excellent game between Rutgers University and Kansas State University. The final score, 37-10 (Rutgers).

Reliant Stadium hosts several international friendly and club matches each year. They are generally held in the Spring and Summer before the NFL season starts. The stadium hosted CONCACAF Gold Cup matches in 2005, and will again in 2007. The venue's attendance record was set during the American tour of FC Barcelona in 2006. Barcelona drew 4-4 with Club América only after scoring three goals in ten minutes.

The stadium is scheduled to host the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament several times in the future, including the 2008 South Regional Finals, the 2010 South Regional Finals, and the 2011 Final Four.

Reliant Stadium is part a collection of venues (including the Astrodome), which are collectively called, Reliant Park. The stadium was designed and built for two major tenants, the Houston Texans and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The entire complex is named for Reliant Energy under a 32-year, $300 million naming rights deal in 2000.

On April 7, 2005, it hosted a historic tribute concert to the late pop star Selena. Among the celebrities to perform that night were Gloria Estefan, Thalía, Paulina Rubio, and Ana Gabriel.

• Reliant Stadium Website
• Aerial Views of Reliant Stadium, StadiumFind.com

Preceded by first stadium

Home of the Houston Texans 2002–present

Succeeded by current

Houston Texans
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Coordinates: 29°41′5.21″N, 95°24′39.44″W

Current stadiums of the National Football League
American Football Conference		National Football Conference
Arrowhead Stadium | Cleveland Browns Stadium | Dolphin Stadium | Giants Stadium | Gillette Stadium | Heinz Field | INVESCO Field at Mile High | Jacksonville Municipal Stadium | LP Field | M&T Bank Stadium | McAfee Coliseum | Paul Brown Stadium | Qualcomm Stadium | Ralph Wilson Stadium | RCA Dome | Reliant Stadium		Bank of America Stadium | Edward Jones Dome | FedExField | Ford Field | Georgia Dome | Giants Stadium | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome | Lambeau Field | Lincoln Financial Field | Louisiana Superdome | Monster Park | Qwest Field | Raymond James Stadium | Soldier Field | Texas Stadium | University of Phoenix Stadium

Current NCAA Division I-A college football bowl game stadiums

Alamodome (Alamo) • Aloha Stadium (Hawaiʻi, Hula) • Amon G. Carter Stadium (Armed Forces) • AT&T Park (Emerald) • Bank of America Stadium (Meineke) • Bronco Stadium (MPC Computers) • Cotton Bowl (Cotton) • Dolphin Stadium (Orange) • Florida Citrus Bowl (Champs Sports, Capital One) • Ford Field (Motor City) • Galena Park ISD Stadium (North-South Classic) • Georgia Dome (Chick-fil-A) • Independence Stadium (Independence) • Jacksonville Municipal Stadium (Gator)• LP Field (Music City) • Ladd Peebles Stadium (GMAC, Senior) • Legion Field (Papajohns.com) • Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium (Liberty) • Louisiana Superdome (New Orleans, Sugar) • Qualcomm Stadium (Poinsettia, Holiday) • Raymond James Stadium (Outback) • Reliant Stadium (Texas, East-West Shrine) • Rogers Centre (International) • Rose Bowl (Rose) • Sam Boyd Stadium (Las Vegas, All-American) • Sun Bowl Stadium (Sun, Texas v. Nation) • Sun Devil Stadium (Insight) • University Stadium (New Mexico) • University of Phoenix Stadium (Fiesta, BCS Nat'l Champ.)

Current Football Venues in the Southwestern Athletic Conference

Ace W. Mumford Stadium (Southern) • Blackshear Stadium (Prairie View A&M) • Crampton Bowl (Alabama State) • Eddie Robinson Stadium (Grambling State) • Jack Spinks Stadium (Alcorn State) • Lion Stadium (Arkansas-Pine Bluff) • Louis Crews Stadium (Alabama A&M) • Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium (Jackson State) • Reliant Stadium (Texas Southern-secondary) • Rice-Totten Field (Mississippi Valley State) • Robertson Stadium (Texas Southern-primary)