Kansas City Chiefs announce move from Missouri to Kansas

The turbulent and disastrous 2025 play ends with a large alteration for the Kansas City Chiefs. The squad that dominated the NFL and won 4 titles, including 3 since 2019, is leaving Arrowhead Stadium successful Missouri aft much than 60 years and moving to the authorities of Kansas. The caller stadium, 1 of the astir modern successful the world, should beryllium acceptable for the 2031 season.

Arrowhead Stadium has been the location of the Chiefs since 1972, and the squad arrived successful Kansas City successful 1963 from Dallas. The team's aureate property was marked by dominance nether manager Andy Reid (67) and backmost Patrick Mahomes (30). However, this play was a implicit debacle; the squad did not marque the playoffs, and Mahomes was earnestly injured.

Owner Clark Hunt and nine leaders announced that the caller stadium, with a dome and multifunctional complex, volition outgo astir 4 cardinal dollars.

"In the years to come, we look guardant to designing and gathering a state-of-the-art stadium with a grooming halfway and implicit infrastructure solutions. This is simply a large accidental for the authorities of Kansas," said Hunt.

In an affectional connection to the fans, Hunt emphasized: "It volition beryllium hard to accidental goodbye to Arrowhead. That stadium reminds maine of household memories and unforgettable moments. But what makes Chiefs games peculiar is not factual and seats, it's you - the fans."

Reason for relocation

The rivalry betwixt Missouri and Kansa* lasted for months. Kansas offered to screen astir of the outgo of gathering a caller stadium, astir 60 percent, portion Missouri was consenting to wage 50 percent. The caller stadium is located astir 15 to 20 kilometers from the existent Arrowhead, eastbound of downtown Kansa* City, astatine the intersection of highways 435 and 70.

The departure is symbolic, but besides practical; Kansas City straddles 2 states, and the squad is present moving to the Kansas Territory, though astir of the historical stadium was successful Missouri. Fans tin expect a modern stadium and implicit infrastructure, portion the memories of Arrowhead will stay successful their hearts forever.

This volition correspond a caller section successful the past of the team, with the anticipation that they volition beryllium ascendant again.