You could add up the costs of the second, third and fourth most expensive stadiums, and they still wouldn’t equal the most expensive sports venue in the world. SoFi Stadium is about 10 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, and it has a performance center attached to it called the YouTube Theater that hosts 6,000 people, which isn’t even factored into the 70,240 seating capacity.
As for the exorbitant cost to build SoFi Stadium, it was originally estimated to be $2.66 billion to build. However, a year-and-a-half into the construction, league documents produced by the NFL cited a need to raise the debt limit of the venue to $4.963 billion. Then, another four months before opening, an additional half a billion dollars in loans was approved by the NFL and the owners. But it was all worth it in the end, and the NFL even moved the NFL Network headquarters into a new 200,000-square-foot building located adjacent to SoFi Stadium.
