- Address: 1350 Northwest 55th Street, Fort Lauderdale
- Country: United States
- Capacity: 21,000
- Opened: 18 July 2020
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: Inter Miami (football)
Extra stadium info – Chase Stadium
The construction of the venue, which opened with a football match, started in 2019. Its construction costs were $60 million. On 9 December 2020, the national football team of the United States played their first game at the stadium. They won the game against El Salvador 6-0. In 2023, the Chase Stadium was expanded. Inter Miami, one of the first sports clubs from the United States with 10 million followers on its main social media page, use the venue for home games. The Major League Soccer club became one of the first sports clubs from Florida with a value of at least $1 billion.
Inter Miami matches
Inter Miami played their first-ever MLS match on 1 March 2020. The match against Los Angeles Football Club, which took place in California, was played in front of 22,000 fans. LAFC won the game 1-0 after the Mexican winger Carlos Alberto Vela Garrido scored the only goal of the match. Inter Miami won their first-ever Major League Soccer match on 23 August 2020. The game against Orlando City ended in a 3-2 victory for Inter Miami. In 2022, Inter Miami played their first match against a club with at least one world championship title at the Chase Stadium. The world famous Spanish side FC Barcelona won the game.
The Higuaín brothers
In 2020, Inter Miami signed the Argentine football star Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín. He played professional football for River Plate, Real Madrid, SSC Napoli, Juventus, AC Milan and Chelsea before he signed with Inter Miami. His brother, Federico Fernando Higuaín, also signed with Inter Miami in 2020. Gonzalo Higuaín and Federico Higuaín both started their professional football career with the famous Argentine side River Plate. In 2021, they both scored against the Philadelphia Union in a Major League Soccer game. Gonzalo Higuaín played in the 2014 FIFA World Cup final, which took place in Brazil. In 2017, Higuaín played his only UEFA Champions League final.
Lionel Messi
Inter Miami signed the Argentine football legend Lionel Andrés Messi, the second athlete with 100 million followers on his or her social media page, in 2023. Messi won various domestic titles with FC Barcelona. He also won FIFA Club World Cup titles, UEFA Champions League titles and UEFA Super Cup titles with the Spanish club. Lionel Messi scored hundreds of goals for the Spanish football giants FC Barcelona before he signed with the French football giants Paris Saint-Germain in 2021. In 2022, he won the FIFA World Cup in Qatar with the national football team of the Argentine Republic.
A debut for Inter Miami
Lionel Messi played his first match for Inter Miami at the Chase Stadium on 22 July 2023. He faced the Mexican club Cruz Azul in that match. The celebrity Kimberly Noel Kardashian attended the game, which ended in a 2-1 win for Inter Miami. Robert Thomas Taylor scored the first goal in the match and Carlos Uriel Antuna Romero scored the second goal in the match. The third goal in the game was scored by Messi.
Red Bull New York versus Inter Miami
Messi scored his first MLS goal in his first-ever MLS match. He scored the goal against Red Bull New York. The game between RBNY and Inter Miami took place in New Jersey in front of a packed stadium. The visitors from Florida won the match. Diego Alexander Gómez Amarilla scored the first goal in the game and Lionel Andrés Messi scored the second goal in the game. The average ticket price for the match was $483.
More former FC Barcelona players
Jordi Alba Ramos, Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz and Sergio Busquets Burgos all signed with Inter Miami in 2023. Jordi Alba Ramos and Sergio Busquets Burgos both played several MLS matches for Inter Miami in 2023. Jordi Alba Ramos, Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz and Sergio Busquets Burgos all played hundreds of games for FC Barcelona before they signed with Inter Miami.
