Chiefs announce relocation to Kansas by the 2031 NFL season with new domed stadium

The Kansas City Chiefs made a large announcement connected Monday, arsenic they revealed their determination from Missouri and Arrowhead Stadium to a caller domed stadium successful Kansas.

The Chiefs, successful conjunction with Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, announced successful a associated connection from proprietor and president Clark Hunt that the squad volition beryllium heading to Kansas City, Kansas, pursuing a gathering of the Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council.

"Today we are excited to instrumentality different momentous measurement for the aboriginal of the franchise," Hunt’s announcement read. "We person entered into an statement with the State of Kansas to big Chiefs shot opening with the 2031 NFL season.

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A wide presumption of an bare GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium anterior to the commencement of the crippled betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium connected Sept. 5, 2024 successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

"In the years ahead, we look guardant to designing and gathering a state-of-the-art domed stadium and mixed-use territory successful Wyandotte County, and a best-in-class grooming facility, squad headquarters, and mixed-use territory successful Olathe, totaling a minimum of $4 cardinal of improvement successful the State of Kansas."

Kelly added: "This statement to bring the Chiefs to Kansas takes our authorities to the adjacent level. With this caller stadium, we’re creating thousands of jobs, bringing successful tourists from astir the world, attracting young people, and astir importantly, we’re continuing to marque Kansas the champion spot successful America to rise a family. This is simply a game-changer for Kansas, and it’s a awesome to America and the satellite that our state’s aboriginal is precise bright." 

The Chiefs volition stay astatine Arrowhead Stadium with its lease lasting done the 2030 season. But determination surely volition beryllium immoderate bittersweet feelings considering however agelong the Chiefs person played astatine their existent home.

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Since 1972, the Chiefs person played astatine Arrowhead Stadium, which the precocious Lamar Hunt was instrumental successful gathering successful Missouri. It is, however, the oldest stadium successful the NFL today.

But the large question for shot fans remains: Why are the Chiefs moving?

It has been an ongoing statement for immoderate time, but it revolves astir yet who volition assistance the Chiefs much successful gathering their location of the future. Kansas outbid Missouri, and the erstwhile state’s STAR (Sales Tax and Revenue) bonds volition beryllium covering up to 70% of the outgo of the caller stadium.

Missouri did o.k. a program this past summertime that would wage up to fractional of the outgo of the caller stadiums for not lone the Chiefs, but MLB’s Kansas City Royals arsenic well.

A wide presumption anterior to the  AFC Championship NFL shot crippled Between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium connected Jan. 26, 2025 successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images)

The Chiefs and Royals stock the aforesaid abstraction astatine the Truman Sports Complex, but the shot enactment is looking to physique its ain caller location and permission Kauffman Stadium successful the past. The Royals were not progressive successful Monday’s announcement.

Voters successful Jackson County, the jurisdiction that owns the Truman Sports Complex, blocked an hold of a 3/8-cent income tax, which would’ve funded improvements to Arrowhead Stadium portion helping concern a caller Royals stadium. As such, some franchises were forced to look astatine different options, and the Chiefs made a large determination here.

"The payment to the full portion volition beryllium monumental," Hunt’s announcement continued. "A stadium of this caliber volition enactment Kansas City successful the moving for Super Bowls, Final Fours, and different satellite people events. A marque caller grooming installation and office volition let the Chiefs to proceed to pull apical talent. And the imaginativeness for a caller mixed-use territory volition rival that of immoderate sports-anchored improvement anyplace successful the country."

To further Hunt’s connection above, a domed stadium makes the caller Chiefs location not conscionable a imaginable Super Bowl destination, but would besides play big to galore different sporting and taste events successful the future.

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Hunt did admit however hard it is going to beryllium to accidental goodbye to the metropolis and spot his begetter worked truthful hard to bring to Missourians and truthful galore others who person supported the Chiefs for decades.

"It volition beryllium hard to bid farewell to Arrowhead Stadium successful a fewer years. Like truthful galore of you, Arrowhead reminds maine of household memories and unforgettable moments. But the information is, what makes Chiefs crippled days truthful peculiar is you. Seats don’t marque noise, factual doesn’t intimidate opponents, parking tons don’t navigator barbecue. You do."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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