Los Angeles2028
Ninety-six years after LA first hosted, and forty-four after 1984, the Summer Games come back to Southern California: 36 sports and 351 medal events staged across the whole of Greater Los Angeles, from the Coliseum to the coast, with almost no new concrete poured.
Where everything happens
One City, Every Sport
The Games are grouped into clusters across Greater Los Angeles, plus one subsite 1,900 km away in Oklahoma City.
Long Beach & the Coast
The waterfront Games. A cluster of existing and temporary venues along the Long Beach shoreline takes the water sports, handball, climbing and shooting, with triathlon up the coast at Venice.
Downtown & Exposition Park
The heart of the Games. Athletics and the closing ceremony fill the Coliseum in Exposition Park, with arena and indoor sports a few blocks north in Downtown.
Around LA
The Games reach across Southern California: golf at Riviera, volleyball at the Honda Center, squash on a Universal backlot, road cycling through Griffith Park and surfing down at Trestles.
Carson
A multi-sport campus at Dignity Health Sports Park: a stadium for archery and rugby sevens, an indoor velodrome for track cycling, a tennis center and hockey fields.
Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley
The Rose Bowl stages both gold-medal matches, 44 years after the 1984 final. Diving moves next door to the Aquatics Center, with equestrian at Santa Anita and cricket at the Pomona Fairplex.
Inglewood
The modern cluster. SoFi Stadium becomes the largest swimming venue the Games have seen, with a temporary pool inside the NFL bowl, and hosts the principal opening ceremony.
Oklahoma City
The one venue group outside California, roughly 1,900 km from Los Angeles, hosting softball and canoe slalom at existing purpose-built facilities.
San Fernando Valley
North of the hills, the Sepulveda Basin becomes an open-air action-sports park for 3x3 basketball, BMX, skateboarding and modern pentathlon.
Venue-to-sport assignments marked TBC are still being finalized by the organizers.
The Games at a Glance
July 14–30, 2028
The Paralympics follow from August 15 to 27, 2028.
351 medal events
The largest Olympic program approved so far.
A festival, not a knockout
No groups, no single final: two weeks of parallel competition ranked by the medal table.
Across Greater LA
Plus an Oklahoma City subsite for softball and canoe slalom.
Around 11,000 athletes
Virtually every country on earth sends a team. The Olympics has no qualification of nations, only of athletes.
When the Games begin
Results and medals, live here
Once the Games are underway, this hub switches to live mode: results, the medal table and venue-by-venue schedules, the same way our World Cup hub tracked every match in 2026.
The Marquee Venues
six flagship stadiums, every one covered on MeetStadium
Olympic Soccer, Across America
seven venues, 58 matches, and a finish split between San Diego and PasadenaLA28 published the round-by-round schedule in March 2026. Six cities stage the group phase and every quarterfinal; San Diego adds a semifinal in each tournament plus both bronze medals; and the Rose Bowl closes it out with both gold-medal matches on July 28 and 29, 44 years after it staged the 1984 final. During the Games each ground carries a neutral name under Olympic rules.
| City | Stadium | Stage | Matches | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York / New Jersey | Etihad Park (opens 2027) | Group stage · men’s quarterfinal | 9 | TBA |
| Columbus | ScottsMiracle-Gro Field | Group stage · men’s quarterfinal | 9 | 20,808 |
| Nashville | Geodis Park | Group stage · both quarterfinals | 9 | 30,109 |
| St. Louis | Energizer Park | Group stage · men’s quarterfinal | 8 | 22,423 |
| San Jose | PayPal Park | Women’s tournament only | 7 | 18,000 |
| San Diego | Snapdragon Stadium | Groups · semifinals · both bronze medals | 11 | 35,000 |
| Pasadena | Rose Bowl | Semifinals · both gold medals | 5 | 89,702 |
Records and Firsts
LA Memorial Coliseum
Athletics in 1932, 1984 and 2028, plus a ceremony at all three Games.
SoFi Stadium
A temporary Olympic pool inside an NFL stadium: swimming on a stadium scale.
Rose Bowl
Pasadena’s bowl hosted the 1984 soccer final and returns to the roster for 2028.
Intuit Dome
Inglewood’s arena opened in 2024 and joins the Games as the basketball venue.
A first in Olympic history
The Split Opening Ceremony
For the first time, the Olympic opening ceremony runs simultaneously at two stadiums, SoFi Stadium and the LA Memorial Coliseum, linked as a single show across the city. The closing ceremony returns to the Coliseum alone.
The 1984 model
No New Stadiums
LA 2028 is staging the entire Games in existing or temporary venues, with no new permanent stadiums. It is the same reuse-what-you-have approach that made 1984 one of the few financially successful Olympics.
What's New in the Program
five additions for 2028Flag Football
American football’s non-contact form makes its Olympic debut.
Cricket
T20 cricket returns after 128 years, last played at the 1900 Games.
Lacrosse
The sixes format revives an Olympic sport last contested in 1908.
Squash
A first Olympic appearance after decades of campaigning.
Baseball / Softball
Back on the program: baseball at Dodger Stadium, softball in Oklahoma City.
Every Sport at the Games
the full 36-sport program, 351 medal eventsAthletics & Aquatics
- Athletics
- Swimming
- Diving
- Artistic swimming
- Water polo
- Marathon swimming
Ball & team sports
- Basketball
- Football (soccer)
- Volleyball
- Beach volleyball
- Handball
- Field hockey
- Rugby sevens
- Baseball / Softball NEW
- Cricket NEW
- Flag football NEW
- Lacrosse NEW
Racket & target
- Tennis
- Table tennis
- Badminton
- Squash NEW
- Archery
- Shooting
Combat
- Boxing
- Judo
- Taekwondo
- Wrestling
- Fencing
Gymnastics, cycling & strength
- Artistic gymnastics
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- Trampoline
- Cycling
- Weightlifting
- Sport climbing
- Skateboarding
Water, road & multi-discipline
- Rowing
- Canoeing
- Sailing
- Surfing
- Equestrian
- Golf
- Triathlon
- Modern pentathlon
Aquatics, gymnastics, cycling, canoeing and volleyball each count as one sport spanning several disciplines in Olympic counting, which is how ~50 disciplines fit into 36 sports.
LA's Third Games
Only two other cities have staged three Summer Olympics. Los Angeles joins them in 2028, and it gets there the same way both times before: by using what the city already had.
The Depression Games
Only 37 nations and 1,332 athletes made it to Los Angeles as the Depression bit, well down on Amsterdam four years earlier. The Coliseum, then seating around 105,000, was the centerpiece, and LA built the first proper Olympic Village in Baldwin Hills, the model every host has followed since.
The blueprint
Privately financed and built on existing venues, 1984 turned a profit where other hosts took on debt. The Coliseum staged athletics again and the Rose Bowl took the soccer final. It is the template LA is deliberately running back.
No new concrete
A third Games, 96 years after the first, with no new permanent stadium anywhere on the plan. The Coliseum takes athletics for a third time, and the Rose Bowl, which staged track cycling in a temporary velodrome back in 1932, returns for a third Games too.
Road to 2028
Common Questions
- When are the LA 2028 Olympics?
- The Games run July 14 to 30, 2028, with the Paralympics following from August 15 to 27, 2028.
- Where are they held?
- Across Greater Los Angeles in existing venues, from Exposition Park to the coast, plus a subsite in Oklahoma City for softball and canoe slalom.
- How many sports are there?
- 36 sports and 351 medal events, the largest Olympic program so far. Five sports are added for 2028: flag football, cricket, lacrosse, squash and baseball/softball.
- How many countries take part?
- Around 206 nations and roughly 11,000 athletes are expected, in line with recent Summer Games. Unlike a World Cup, countries do not qualify: every recognised National Olympic Committee can send athletes.
- Where is the opening ceremony?
- Split across two stadiums for the first time: SoFi Stadium and the LA Memorial Coliseum, linked as one show. The closing ceremony is at the Coliseum.
- Are new stadiums being built?
- No. LA 2028 uses existing and temporary venues only, the same reuse-what-you-have model that made the 1984 Games a financial success.
- Which stadiums host the Olympic soccer?
- Seven venues, 58 matches. Six cities stage the group phase and the quarterfinals: New York, Columbus, Nashville, St. Louis, San Jose and San Diego. San Diego takes the most of any venue, 11, including a semifinal in each tournament and both bronze-medal matches. The Rose Bowl takes five and no group-stage football at all: a women’s quarterfinal, the other semifinal of each tournament, and both gold-medal matches on July 28 and 29, 2028.
- Can I get tickets yet?
- Not yet. Ticketing details are still to come; we will cover them here as they are announced.
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