Chiefs See Another Week Bring More Clarity on Another Stadium

The Washington plans

Bowser and new Commanders owner Josh Harris hammered out the plans this spring. The structure of the deal includes $2.7 billion in team contributions and approximately $1.1 billion from the city. Development plans call for housing, green space and a sports complex, in addition to a sparkling new home for Jayden Daniels and the team.

RFK Stadium served as the Redskins’ home from 1961-96. It also hosted Washington Senators and Nationals Major League Baseball games, college football and most recently the D.C. United of Major League Soccer. Now, six years after it closed in 2019, crews are demolishing the facility.

Joe Theismann, Doug Williams and Mark Rypien each led the franchise to Super Bowl victories while playing in RFK Stadium. Wednesday’s vote means the team can make plans to move into its new home in time for the 2030 season.

Chiefs can meet with Commanders next month

And while the Chiefs won’t see the new DC stadium for a long time – they’re next scheduled to visit the Commanders in 2029, and likely eight years after that – Clark Hunt and Mark Donovan have a prime opportunity to meet with Harris next month.

The Commanders will visit Arrowhead Stadium on Monday Night Football in Week 8, Oct. 27. By then, perhaps the Chiefs will have made their own announcement. The ball is currently in the court of the team, which is contemplating competing deals on the table – one calling for a new indoor stadium in Wyandotte County, Kansas, the other a massive renovation of their current home.

Both states involved, Kansas and Missouri, have approved significant funding plans. All the Chiefs need to do now is pick. But Donovan said the decision isn’t easy.

“There’ve been so many days,” the team president said Aug. 24, “when you walk out of meetings saying, 'We're good, this is the path we're going. And then the next day, it's like, ‘Yeah, except for this, this and this we have to get done.’ Then you go back to the other side and say, ‘OK, can we do this?' There's a lot of starts and stops.”

The process might fewer stops now that three NFL teams since the start of 2025 season have made significant stadium announcements. The Bears and Broncos both announced future stadium sites earlier this month, joining the Commanders. All three teams are expected to be in their new homes by September, 2031.