About Lambeau Field
Lambeau Field is an outdoor athletic stadium in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the home field of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Opened in 1957 as City Stadium, it was renamed in 1965 in memory of Packers founder, player, and long-time coach, Curly Lambeau. It is the oldest continually operating NFL stadium.
Known as "The Frozen Tundra," the stadium is famous for its frigid winter games, including the legendary "Ice Bowl" in 1967. With a capacity of 81,441, it is the largest venue in the state of Wisconsin. Unlike most modern stadiums, it features bleacher-style seating in the main bowl, retaining a historic collegiate atmosphere.
Lambeau Field is unique in professional sports due to the Packers' status as a community-owned non-profit team. The stadium is considered a shrine to football history, featuring the Packers Hall of Fame and the atrium. The "Lambeau Leap," where players jump into the stands after a touchdown, is one of the most iconic celebrations in the NFL.
The venue is owned by the Green Bay Packers Corporation, a not-for-profit publicly traded entity whose 361,300 shareholders elect a 45-member board of directors that itself elects a seven-member executive committee overseeing team operations. Ownership is legally protected by NFL bylaws that grandfather the Packers' unique corporate structure but explicitly forbid any other franchise from adopting community ownership. The 2003 addition of the Lambeau Field Atrium and the 2013 south end-zone expansion together cost 470 million dollars, funded jointly through team-issued stock sales, Green Bay municipal bonds and Brown County sales-tax revenue. The venue's naming rights are permanently retired to honour founder-coach Curly Lambeau and cannot be sold under a bylaw explicitly protecting the name in perpetuity, unlike almost every other modern American professional-sports venue.