In 2031 the Kansas City Chiefs, one of the most successful and important teams in the American football championship (NFL), they will transfer from one Kansas City to another: they will leave the Missouri city where they have played since 1963 and will move to the neighboring one, which has the same name but is in Kansas. The team will play its matches in a new covered stadium with a total cost of 3 billion euros, thus leaving the facility where it has played its home matches for over fifty years, the Arrowhead Stadium.
President Mark Donovan said the new stadium will open up many possibilities for the Kansas City Chiefs, including hosting the Super Bowl, the American football championship final, one of the most followed sporting events in the world. In fact, Arrowhead Stadium is an outdoor facility, and consequently does not meet the climatic requirements required by the NFL to host the Super Bowl, which is played in February and is assigned almost exclusively to covered stadiums or located in areas with a mild climate.
The new stadium will be built about thirty kilometers from the current one, while the team’s registered office will be moved to Olathe, another city in Kansas. Kansas Lieutenant Governor David Toland called the franchise’s move “the largest economic victory” in the state’s history, adding that it will “establish Kansas as a global destination for sports and entertainment.”
