Pan American Stadium, Sports stadium in City Park, New Orleans, United States.
Pan American Stadium is a sports facility in City Park, New Orleans, with a modern artificial turf surface and seating for approximately 5,000 spectators. The grounds feature a press box and renovated locker rooms designed to serve soccer, American football, lacrosse, and rugby matches.
Pan American Stadium was built to take pressure off Tad Gormley Stadium, the main City Park facility, by hosting more high school football games. Hurricane Katrina flooded it in 2005; it was renovated and reopened in 2008 with a FieldTurf surface, new bleachers, press box, scoreboard and locker rooms, partly funded by the NFL Youth Football Fund for the New Orleans Saints. It hosted the Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Lacrosse Series from 2011 to 2015 and the high school rugby state championship in 2015.
The stadium hosts the New Orleans Jesters of the National Premier Soccer League and Motagua New Orleans of the Gulf Coast Premier League. Louisiana High School Athletic Association football and soccer games are also played here, and in 2015 it held the state high school rugby championship, a sport the LHSAA does not sponsor.
The stadium sits inside City Park, and its 5,000 seats are spread across bleachers installed in the 2008 renovation. Enter through the City Park road network; the nearest streetcar line runs along Canal Street and Carrollton Avenue, a walk or short ride from the park. Arrive before kickoff on LHSAA football nights, when the lot fills quickly.
The 2008 renovation was funded in part by the NFL Youth Football Fund on behalf of the New Orleans Saints, alongside a new FieldTurf surface, bleachers, press box, scoreboard and locker rooms. From 2011 to 2015 the stadium hosted the Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Lacrosse Series, and in 2015 it held the state high school rugby championship, a sport the LHSAA does not sponsor.
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