Dickies Arena Explained

Stadium Name:	Dickies Arena
Logo Image:	Dickies Arena logo.svg
Pushpin Map:	Texas#USA
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location within Texas##Location within the United States
Pushpin Relief:	1
Pushpin Label:	Dickies Arena
Address:	1911 Montgomery Street
Location:	Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Coordinates:	32.7409°N -97.3699°W
Broke Ground:	2015
Cost:	$540 million^[1]
Opened:	November 8, 2019
Capacity:	Concerts: 14,000 basketball: 13,550 family shows and hockey: 12,200 rodeo performances: 9,300
Owner:	City of Fort Worth
Architect:	David M. Schwarz
Operator:	Trail Drive Management Corporation
General Contractor:	The Beck Group
Tenants:	Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo 2020–present Panther City Lacrosse Club (NLL) 2021–present Texas Rattlers (PBR) (2022-present)

Dickies Arena is a 14,000-seat multipurpose American arena, located within the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas.^[2] The venue hosted a public ribbon cutting on October 26, 2019. The first event held was a Twenty One Pilots concert on November 8, 2019.

The facility is the result of a public-private partnership between Fort Worth, Tarrant County, the state of Texas, and a group of private-sector participants, including foundations, individuals, and organizations. The arena was designed by the 2015 Driehaus Prize winner David M. Schwarz^[3] and is owned by Fort Worth and managed by the not-for-profit Multipurpose Arena Fort Worth (MAFW).

It hosts concerts, sporting events, and family entertainment, and serves as the home of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo and Xtreme Bulls since 2020 and was the home of the Professional Bull Riders World Finals in 2022 and 2023. The Fort Worth Stock Show and other equestrian events are held at the adjacent Will Rogers Memorial Center.

Naming

On April 18, 2017 as part of the "Let The Dirt Fly" groundbreaking ceremony, MAFW and Dickies announced a surprise partnership that established Dickies as the naming rights partner for the venue. The Fort Worth-based company is the world's leading performance workwear brand.^[4]

Seating

With a wide variety of seating configurations, the arena is able to accommodate many styles of events. There will be 3 standard levels: plaza level (100-sections), suite and loge box level, and gallery level (200-sections); and 1 additional with floor seating.

Acoustics

While in the design phase, Dickies Arena was built with the intent of having the sound of a concert hall. Great care was given to minimize or eliminate "echo."

Center-hung scoreboard

Dickies Arena has the second-largest, continuous 360-degree screen in North America. The scoreboard extends past the width of the basketball court.

The board measures 105 feet across and 26 feet tall.

There are 1.2 million LEDs installed on the board.

Events

Concerts

Dates	Headliner	Supporting Acts	Tour	Attendance	Revenue	Notes
2019
November 8	Twenty One Pilots	MisterWives	The Bandito Tour	12,435 / 12,658	$891,443	First-ever concert in the arena.
November 11	SuperM		We Are The Future Live	8,393	$367,032	There was only one price level for this event, all tickets were US$50.00, it was the only price set for all available seats. This was also the first foreign act to headline the arena.
November 14	The Black Keys	Modest Mouse	Let's Rock Tour
November 17	MercyMe	Crowder Micah Tyler	Imagine Nation Tour	9,907 / 10,239	$495,346
November 22-23	George Strait			27,168 / 27,168	$5,794,152	This was the first country concert held in the arena and the largest and highest-grossing concert held till date.
December 3	106.1 KISS FM'S Jingle Ball		Jingle Ball Tour 2019	The line up included performances by: Camila Cabello, Sam Smith, Charlie Puth, Lizzo, Lauv and Why Don't We.
December 14	Pepe Aguilar	First Latin music artist to perform in the arena.
Total				57,903 / 58,458	$7,547,973
2020
February 22	Alan Jackson	colspan="5"
July 4	Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra	Megan Koch, Fort Worth Opera Texas Ballet Theater Fei-Fei, The Cliburn Major Attaway	FWSO America Strong Concert	Broadcast on WFAA-TV Channel 8 ABC; no in-person audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021
June 16	Steely Dan	Steve Winwood	2021 Tour	colspan="3"
July 24	The Dude Perfect Show		2020 Tour	colspan="3"
August 20	Rod Stewart	Cheap Trick	colspan="4"
September 13	Eric Clapton	Jimmie Vaughan	2021 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR	11,370	$2,230,660
September 21	Michael Bublé		An Evening with Michael Bublé	First Canadian artist to perform in the Arena.
October 1	Kiss	David Garibaldi	End of the Road World Tour	9,658 / 9,937 (97%)	$1,251,573
October 19	James Taylor & His All-Star Band	Jackson Browne	2021 Fall Tour	colspan="3"
December 3	For King & Country		A Drummer Boy Christmas Tour	colspan="3"
2022
February 22	Twice		Twice 4th World Tour III	10,357	$1,169,384
April 1	Eric Church		Gather Again Tour	14,193	$1,797,404
May 17	Paul McCartney		Got Back	12,093	$3,985,850
June 6	Monsta X		No Limit Tour	10,068 / 10,461	$872,200
August 20	Rob Zombie	Mudvayne, Static-X, Powerman 5000	Freaks on Parade Tour	A video tribute for the late Texan guitarist Dimebag Darrell was shown during Mudvayne's performance (the concert was held on what would have been his 56th birthday).
August 23	Seventeen		BE THE SUN	9,282 / 10,105	$1,117,761
September 10	The Killers	Johnny Marr	Imploding the Mirage Tour	12,964 / 13,224	$737,731
September 11	Panic! at the Disco	Beach Bunny, Jake Wesley Rogers	Viva Las Vengeance Tour	colspan="3"
October 2	Mary J. Blige	Queen Naija	Good Morning Gorgeous Tour	9,680 / 11,084	$1,385,861
October 6	Enhypen		Manifesto (tour)	10,043 / 11,230	$1,392,457
October 26	Post Malone	Roddy Ricch	Twelve Carat Tour	11,860	$1,473,785
November 16	Ateez		The Fellowship: Break The Wall	11,023	$1,476,047
2023
March 26-27	Stray Kids		Stray Kids 2nd World Tour "MANIAC"	22,626	$2,553,994
April 20	Rauw Alejandro	Jabbawockeez	Saturno World Tour	13,068 / 13,343	$1,595,821	First Puerto Rican singer to perform in the Arena.
April 28	Kenny Loggins	Yacht Rock Revue	This Is It! His Final Tour	colspan="3"
May 6	Brooks & Dunn	Scotty McCreery Megan Moroney	REBOOT Tour	colspan="3"
May 24	Mamamoo		My Con World Tour	6,387 / 10,472	$1,018,340
June 9	Koe Wetzel	Treaty Oak Revival	Road To Hell Paso Tour	colspan="3"
June 22	Big Time Rush	MAX Jax	Can't Get Enough Tour	colspan="3"
June 24	Kid Rock	Marcus King	Bad Reputation Tour	colspan="3"
June 29	Bryan Adams	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	So Happy It Hurts Tour	colspan="3"
July 8	Paramore	Foals The Linda Lindas	This Is Why Tour	colspan="3"
July 29	ZZ Top Lynyrd Skynyrd	Uncle Kracker	The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour	colspan="3"
August 2	NF	Cordae	Hope Tour	colspan="3"
August 26	Banda MS		MS20 Tour	First Mexican headliner
September 7	Sam Smith	Jessie Reyez	GLORIA the Tour	colspan="3"
September 16	Arctic Monkeys	Fontaines D.C.	colspan="4"
September 29	Luke Bryan	Chayce Beckham Jackson Dean Hailey Whitters	Country On Tour	colspan="3"
October 9	The 1975	Dora Jar	Still... At Their Very Best	colspan="3"
October 13	Shania Twain	Lily Rose	Queen of Me Tour	colspan="3"
October 14	Jason Aldean	Mitchell Tenpenny Corey Kent Dee Jay Silver	Highway Desperado Tour	colspan="3"
October 15	Avenged Sevenfold	Falling in Reverse	Life Is but a Dream... Tour	colspan="3"
October 27	KISS		End of the Road World Tour	colspan="3"
November 17-18	George Strait		2023 Stadium Shows	colspan="3"
December 1	Lauren Daigle		The Kaleidoscope Tour	colspan="3"
December 2	Jon Pardi	Ella Langley DJ Highmax	Mr. Saturday Night World Tour	colspan="3"
December 8	Trans-Siberian Orchestra		The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO and More	colspan="3"
December 15	For King & Country		A Drummer Boy Christmas Tour	colspan="3"
December 20	Pentatonix		The Most Wonderful Tour of the Year	colspan="3"
December 31	Parker McCollum	Corey Kent Catie Offerman		colspan="3"
2024
April 12	Tim McGraw	Carly Pearce	Standing Room Only Tour '24
June 4	Justin Timberlake		The Forget Tomorrow World Tour
June 25	Blink-182	Pierce the Veil	One More Time Tour
July 10	AJR	TBA	The Maybe Man Tour	TBA
July 25	Janet Jackson	Nelly	Together Again
August 21	Barry Manilow		The Last Fort Worth Concert
September 17	NCT DREAM		The Dream Show 3: Dreamscape
September 25	Hans Zimmer		Hans Zimmer Live
October 26	Maisie Peters	TBA	The Good Witch	TBA
November 2	Chris Tomlin	Tauren Wells	Holy Forever World Tour
November 13	Creed	3 Doors Down Mammoth WVH	Are You Ready? Tour
November 16	Iron Maiden	The Hu	The Future Past World Tour
December 7	Alabama	David Lee Murphy	Roll On II North America Tour
2025
February 15	Alan Jackson		One More For The Road Tour

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation

Date	Headliner	Supporting acts	Tour	Reason
July 18, 2020	Rascal Flatts	Chase Rice Matt Stell	Farewell: Life Is a Highway Tour	COVID-19 pandemic^[5]
August 18, 2020	Camila Cabello	PRETTYMUCH	The Romance Tour	Canceled on May 7, 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic^[6]

Sports

• The arena hosted its first Hot Wheels Monster Truck Live show on November 15 & 16, 2019.
• TCU hosted the first sporting event in Dickies Arena with a non-conference basketball game against USC on December 6, 2019.^[7]
• Since 2020, Dickies Arena has been home to the rodeo section of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo.
• 2021 and 2022 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
• The American Athletic Conference will host its annual American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament^[8] (2020, 2021, 2022) and American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament^[9] (2021, 2022) at Dickies Arena.
• Dickies Arena hosted first and second-round games during the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.^[10]
• On July 22, 2020, the National Lacrosse League announced it would be expanding to Fort Worth for the 2021–22 season, playing its home games at Dickies Arena.^[11]
• The Professional Bull Riders (PBR) hosted a regular-season Unleash the Beast Series event at Dickies Arena on August 29 and 30, 2020.^[12] The event returned on August 28 and 29, 2021.^[13] In 2022 and 2023, Dickies Arena served as the home of the PBR World Finals, now held every May after taking place for many years in the autumn in Las Vegas, Nevada.^{[14] [15] [16]} Also since 2022, Dickies Arena has been a home venue of the PBR's Texas Rattlers during the PBR Team Series season held every summer through autumn.
• On March 20, 2021, Boxing hosted Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs Maurice Hooker. Ortiz Jr won by 7th round TKO to win the WBO International welterweight title.
• On July 18, 2021, WWE presented the 2021 Money in the Bank pay-per-view event from Dickies Arena, making it the first WWE pay-per-view to take place outside of Florida since the 2020 Elimination Chamber event prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• From August 4 through August 14, Dickies Arena hosted the 2022 Rocket League World Championship, a premier Esports tournament.^[17]
• From October 31 through November 7, Dickies Arena hosted the 2022 WTA Finals.^[18]
• Dickies Arena will host the CrossFit Games from August 8 through August 11, 2024.
• The arena will host the 2024 Fortnite Championship Series Global Championship on September 7 and 8, 2024.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Photo tour: Inside the new Dickies Arena in Fort Worth. David Ajamy. October 23, 2019. February 25, 2020.
2. Web site: The Arena. dickiesarena.com. en-US. 2018-02-22.
3. Web site: Dickies Arena Architect Sees His Work in Action for Rodeo. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. 28 January 2020 . en-US. 2020-05-24.
4. Web site: Fort Worth arena project lands Dickies naming rights deal. April 18, 2017. Dallas News.
5. Web site: lafferlauren. 2020-05-19. Rascal Flatts Cancel 2020 Farewell Life Is A Highway Tour. 2020-06-22. Sounds Like Nashville.
6. Web site: Camila Cabello - The Romance Tour - CANCELLED. 2020-06-22. Dickies Arena. en.
7. Web site: Dickies Arena's inaugural basketball game to feature TCU and USC. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. en. 2018-10-28.
8. Web site: Fort Worth to host 2020-2022 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Championships. American Athletic Conference. 16 August 2017 . en. 2017-08-16.
9. Web site: Dickies Arena To Host 2021, 2022 Women's Basketball Championships. American Athletic Conference. en. 2021-08-13.
10. Web site: New Fort Worth Arena to host NCAA Tournament games in 2022. WFAA. 18 April 2017 . 2017-04-18.
11. Web site: National Lacrosse League announces first-ever expansion into the state of Texas . National Lacrosse League.
12. https://pbr.com/news/2020/07/pbr-back-to-work-presented-by-o-reilly-revised-pbr-schedule-for-second-half-of-2020-premier-series-revealed/ PBR Back to Work, presented by O'Reilly: revised PBR schedule for second half of 2020 premier series revealed
13. Web site: PBR Iron Cowboy 2021. Professional Bull Riders. October 12, 2021.
14. Web site: PBR World Finals Moving to Fort Worth in 2022. Professional Bull Riders. October 12, 2021.
15. Web site: Inaugural PBR World Finals in Dickies Arena. Professional Bull Riders. May 23, 2022.
16. Web site: Results of 2023 PBR World Finals. Professional Bull Riders. May 22, 2023.
17. Web site: Rocket League Championship. Dickies Arena. en-US. 2022-08-18.
18. 2022 edition of WTA Finals to be held in Fort Worth, Texas . September 6, 2022 . . September 12, 2022 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220911120524/https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2784266/2022-edition-of-wta-finals-to-be-held-in-fort-worth-texas . September 11, 2022.