National Sports Center

The ground sits inside something much larger than itself: a complex in Blaine with more than fifty football pitches spread around it, seventeen of them artificial and the rest grass, plus an ice rink and a golf course. It holds the Guinness World Record for the largest football complex.

Those seats number 5,500 fixed, with the figure quoted for professional matches reaching 8,500 once standing room is counted. Neither number explains the biggest night here. In 2001 the United States met Canada in a women's international and 15,615 people came, a crowd the stadium has not approached since.

The site came out of a public-private arrangement between the State of Minnesota and the City of Blaine, with city manager Don Poss credited for getting it built, and it has been run by the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission ever since. It has never been renamed.

Football has come and gone through it in phases. Minnesota Thunder were the first tenants, played here for over a decade, left, then returned for two more seasons. Since 2022 the ground has taken a share of Minnesota United II home matches, the rest played downtown.

For much of the summer the pitches around it belong to the USA Cup, the youth tournament that fills the complex, and the stadium has also hosted concerts, among them the Joyful Noise Family Fest. The playing surface is natural grass.