Miami Sports Guide: Teams, Venues and How to Get to a Game

The Miami sports section has five deeper guides, on Inter Miami CF, the Miami Dolphins, the Miami Heat, the Miami Marlins and University of Miami athletics, and this hub answers the venue, ownership and transit questions that cut across all of them.

Two of the venues are public property tied to Miami-Dade County: Kaseya Center, whose naming rights the county put under a 17-year agreement (Miami-Dade County), and the Marlins ballpark, planned under a 2008 agreement among the county, the City of Miami and the team (Miami-Dade legislative file). Those public facts sit in the sections below; schedules, tickets and team history sit in the team guides.

Three professional teams play at venues with Miami addresses, the Heat at Kaseya Center, the Marlins at loanDepot park and Inter Miami CF at Nu Stadium, while the Dolphins play at a Miami Gardens address (Hard Rock Stadium).

The addresses come from each venue: Kaseya Center lists 601 Biscayne Boulevard in ZIP 33132 (Kaseya Center), the Marlins list 501 Marlins Way (Miami Marlins), Inter Miami lists 1000 Stadium Drive, Miami, Florida 33125 (Inter Miami CF), and Hard Rock Stadium lists 347 Don Shula Drive in Miami Gardens, ZIP 33056 (Hard Rock Stadium). The Hurricanes place Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field on the main campus in Coral Gables (University of Miami Athletics).

The detail that trips up visitors is the Miami Gardens address. A Dolphins or Hurricanes football game is not a downtown Miami trip: Miami Gardens is its own municipality, incorporated on May 13, 2003, one of the 34 incorporated municipalities the county lists (Miami-Dade County), and it lies outside the downtown Miami, Omni and Brickell areas that Metromover serves (Miami-Dade DTPW).

Kaseya Center is the Miami-Dade County arena, and the county negotiated a naming rights agreement with Kaseya US LLC for $117,370,000 in payments from Kaseya to the county over a 17-year term (Miami-Dade County).

After a public hearing, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners voted on a resolution, sponsored by District 3 Commissioner Keon Hardemon, to sell the naming rights and associated sponsorship rights, and the arena sits in District 3 (Miami-Dade County, May 19, 2023). The Office of the Mayor announced on April 4, 2023 that the vote was unanimous and that the home of the Miami HEAT would be known as the Kaseya Center effective immediately (Miami-Dade Office of the Mayor). That release rounds the deal to a total of $117 million over a 17-year term; the county news item gives the exact $117,370,000.

The Marlins ballpark was planned under a Baseball Stadium Agreement among Miami-Dade County, the City of Miami and the team, for a new stadium at the Orange Bowl site. The county memo in Legislative Item 080474, introduced February 19, 2008, gave pre-adoption estimates, with the stadium at approximately $515 million: $347 million from the county, including $50 million of General Obligation Bond proceeds and $297 million of bed tax revenues, $13 million from the City of Miami and $155 million from the team (Miami-Dade Legislative Item 080474). Of the team share, $35 million comes through annual rent of about $2.3 million paid to the county.

The same memo has the team paying $750,000 a year into a stadium Capital Reserve Fund, $26.25 million over the 35-year management agreement, which it calls critical to protecting the county ownership interest in the Miami ballpark (Miami-Dade legislative file). One caution: these are pre-adoption estimates. File 080474 carries the status Amended, and its notes say to see #080526 for the final version as adopted, so the adopted terms sit in that later file. The memo also says city funding does not include an estimated $10 million for Orange Bowl demolition and site preparation, which is outside the stadium construction budget.

For Heat games, Kaseya Center tells fans to ride Metrorail to Government Center, transfer to the Metromover Omni Loop and walk east from Park West Station across Biscayne Boulevard (Kaseya Center).

Metromover is free and runs seven days a week through downtown Miami, Omni and Brickell, with 21 stations from Financial District Station to School Board Station in three loops, from 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Miami-Dade DTPW). Metrorail runs 5:00 a.m. to midnight, and the arena says service may be extended to 1:00 a.m. after special events at Kaseya Center (Kaseya Center). The arena also warns that downtown Miami growth has cut parking options next to the building, so flat-rate lots a short walk away are the fallback.

For Marlins games, the team says loanDepot park is served by two Metrorail stops within a mile, Culmer and Civic Center, plus a Tri-Rail connection through Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre Station, eight Metrobus routes and the City of Miami Trolley (Miami Marlins). Brightline HOME RUNNER train tickets include a free shuttle between MiamiCentral Station and the ballpark, and rideshare pickups are at East Lot 1, 1380 NW 6th Street.

For Inter Miami matches, the club names the Miami Intermodal Center, listed as the Miami International Airport stop on Metrorail, as the most convenient transit station to Nu Stadium, with a designated walking route and an ADA shuttle (Inter Miami CF). A practical note for first-timers: Nu Stadium concessions are cashless and the stadium has no ATMs (Inter Miami CF FAQs).

University of Miami Hurricanes football has played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens since 2008, while baseball plays at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field on the main campus in Coral Gables (University of Miami Athletics).

The Watsco Center is the 200,000 square foot, 7,972-seat arena that hosts the UM men and women basketball teams, and Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field is the Hurricanes baseball park (Miami Hurricanes facilities). The Biltmore Golf Course in Coral Gables, an 18-hole, par 71 course designed by Donald Ross, is the home course for Hurricanes golf.

Coral Gables, incorporated on April 1, 1925, and Miami Gardens, incorporated on May 13, 2003, are both municipalities separate from the City of Miami on the county list (Miami-Dade County). The University of Miami athletics guide covers the program and conference history; the Miami Dolphins guide covers the stadium the two football teams share.

Last verified: October 18, 2026, for this Miami sports hub, against Miami-Dade County records on the arena and ballpark, the county Metromover page and each venue and team website.