The
Green Bay Packers are a professional
American football team based in
Green Bay, Wisconsin. Since their establishment as a professional football team in 1919, the Packers have played
home games in eight stadiums.[1] Their first home was
Hagemeister Park, where they played from 1919 to 1922, including their first two seasons in the
National Football League (NFL). Hagemeister Park was a park owned by the Hagemeister Brewery. During games ropes were set-up around the field and attendees either walked up or parked their cars nearby. After the first season, a small grandstand was built and the field was fenced off.[2]Green Bay East High School was built at the location of Hagemeister Park in 1922, which forced the Packers to move to
Bellevue Park, a small minor league baseball stadium that seated about 5,000. They only played for two seasons at Bellevue Park before moving to
City Stadium in 1925.[1] Although City Stadium was the Packers' official home field, in 1933 they began to play some of their home games in Milwaukee to attract more fans and revenue.[3] After hosting one game at
Borchert Field in 1933,[4] the
Packers played two or three home games each year in Milwaukee, at
Wisconsin State Fair Park from 1934 to 1951 and at
Marquette Stadium in 1952.[1] The games were moved to
Milwaukee County Stadium after it opened in 1953 and continued through 1994, after which the Packers moved back to Green Bay permanently.[3]
As of 2023, the current home of the Green Bay Packers is
Lambeau Field, an 81,441 seating capacity stadium in
Green Bay, Wisconsin.[5] By the 1950s, City Stadium was seen by the NFL as too small and outdated to host an NFL team. After threats of forcing the team to move to Milwaukee, the City of Green Bay built New City Stadium, which was funded by a voter-approved bond issue, in 1957.[6] In April 1956, Green Bay voters overwhelmingly approved the bond issue to finance the new stadium.[7] After the Packers founder
Curly Lambeau died in 1965, the stadium was renamed to Lambeau Field in his honor.[8] Its original capacity was 32,500 seats, although it was continually expanded from 1961 to 1995 to a capacity of 60,890 seats.[9] The stadium was farther renovated from 2001 to 2003 to increase capacity to 72,515, while also updating various aspects of the stadium.[10] Over 7,000 more seats were added to the south endzone in 2013 and the Lambeau Field Atrium was expanded in 2015.[11] These renovations increased the stadium's capacity to 81,441, making it
one of the largest football stadiums in America.[12] Lambeau Field has been continuously ranked as one of the best stadiums in the NFL.[13][14][15] As of 2024, it is also the oldest continually operating NFL stadium.[16] Only the
Boston Red Sox at
Fenway Park and the
Chicago Cubs at
Wrigley Field have longer active home-field tenures in American professional sports.[17]
In addition to Lambeau Field, the Green Bay Packers operate three separate training facilities that are part of a large complex located across the street from the Lambeau Field:
Don Hutson Center, an indoor training center with a full-size football field and space for individual workouts.[21]
Since 1958, the Packers have hosted their yearly
training camp at
St. Norbert College, a private
Catholicliberal arts college in
De Pere, Wisconsin.[22] Prior to their current training facilities, the Packers practiced at
Rockwood Lodge between 1946 and 1949. The lodge is believed to be the first self-contained team training facility in pro football history, although it burned down in 1950 under suspicious circumstances, just one week before
Curly Lambeau resigned from the Packers.[23]