Orlando Sports Guide: Teams, Venues, Game Dates and Parking

The Orlando sports section has no deeper guides yet, so this hub answers the main questions about Orlando teams, venues, parking and field rentals itself.

Two Orlando hubs carry the neighboring questions. The Orlando events hub lists city festivals, parades and other event dates, including the Camping World Stadium calendar, and the Orlando recreation hub covers City of Orlando youth leagues, pools and neighborhood centers. The Orlando convention and events economy guide covers the visitor economy that the big Orlando games feed.

Orlando has four professional home teams: the Orlando Magic and Orlando Solar Bears at the Kia Center, and Orlando City SC and the Orlando Pride at Inter&Co Stadium.

The Kia Center is owned and operated by the City of Orlando, with the Orlando Magic as developer (Kia Center), and the city Venues page dates its opening to October 2010 (Orlando Venues). The Orlando Venues Department names the NBA Orlando Magic and the ECHL Orlando Solar Bears as the arena tenants (Orlando Venues). The arena took the Kia Center name on December 20, 2023, replacing the Amway Center name (Kia Center).

The Magic describe themselves as the NBA franchise of Orlando since 1989. The same Kia Center page names the Osceola Magic of the NBA G League and the Solar Bears, an affiliate of the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning, as other Magic entities (Kia Center). The arena menu also lists the Orlando Pirates alongside the Magic and Solar Bears (Kia Center events).

Inter&Co Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Downtown Orlando. Orlando City SC says it opened in March 2017, was 100 percent privately funded at a cost of $155 million and lists a capacity of 25,000, with approximately 3,800 in the supporters section known as The Wall, on a natural grass field sunken 8 feet below street level (Orlando City SC). The club trains in Kissimmee, at the Orlando Health Training Ground at Osceola Heritage Park, which opened on January 17, 2020 (Orlando City SC). The city Venues Department lists the facilities it manages as the Kia Center, Camping World Stadium, Tinker Field, Harry P. Leu Gardens and the Mennello Museum of American Art; Inter&Co Stadium is not on that list (Orlando Venues).

Camping World Stadium adds football. It will be the temporary home of the Jacksonville Jaguars for the entire 2027 NFL season while EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville is renovated, bringing a full slate of regular-season home games to Orlando (Camping World Stadium).

The Solar Bears open their Kia Center home season on October 18, 2026, and the Orlando Magic follow on October 21, 2026, against the Atlanta Hawks.

The dates above come from the Kia Center events calendar as it stood on October 18, 2026, which mixes games with concerts, such as Teddy Swims on October 22, 2026 between two Magic home games (Kia Center events). Magic tickets go through the team, at OrlandoMagic.com or 407-89-MAGIC, and the arena line is 407-440-7900 (Kia Center).

A practical point for these Orlando dates: the Magic play home games on consecutive nights, November 1 and November 2, and a prepaid ThreatLocker Garage pass must be bought by 5 p.m. on the day before each event (Kia Center parking).

Three big dates sit on the Camping World Stadium calendar before the Jaguars arrive in fall 2027: the Florida Blue Florida Classic (November 21, 2026), the Pop-Tarts Bowl (December 29, 2026) and the Citrus Bowl (January 2, 2027).

The stadium calendar showed both bowl games with tickets on sale TBA on October 18, 2026, while the Florida Classic had tickets and parking on sale (stadium calendar). Monster Jam follows on March 27, 2027, and a Jacksonville Jaguars listing appears for September 1, 2027 (stadium calendar).

The city Venues page calls the stadium home to the Citrus Bowl, the Florida Classic, the Cheez-It Bowl and the Monster Jam World Finals (Orlando Venues). The stadium calendar lists no Cheez-It Bowl; its December 29, 2026 game is the Pop-Tarts Bowl (stadium calendar). The two official pages name different bowls, and neither says how the two names relate.

Football at this Orlando site is old. The stadium began in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project, named the Orlando Stadium, and the first college football bowl game in Orlando was played on January 1, 1947, when Catawba College beat Maryville College 31-6 with seating for 10,000 (stadium history).

The renaming to Camping World Stadium took effect on April 27, 2016 under a naming rights sponsorship, and the 1974 to 1976 expansion had taken capacity to 50,000 (stadium history). Tinker Field, immediately west of the stadium, is a former ballpark that the city calls a national historic landmark; it now hosts outdoor festivals such as the Electric Daisy Carnival (Orlando Venues).

A $400 million Camping World Stadium Improvement Project began in December 2025 and is scheduled to finish in the summer of 2027, raising permanent seating from about 63,000 to 65,000.

The project is funded entirely by the Orange County Tourist Development Tax, the 6% bed tax on hotel and short-term lodging stays, and Orange County Commissioners approved the funding in November 2024 (Stadium Improvement Project). Upper level bleachers are being replaced with seats that have chairbacks and armrests, and the stadium says almost every part of the building will have been rebuilt since 2014 when the work is done (Stadium Improvement Project).

This is the third big round of work since 2014. The city Venues page records a $207.7 million reconstruction of Camping World Stadium in 2014 that left the stadium 90% all-new construction (Orlando Venues), and the project page adds $60 million of upgrades in 2021. The project team lists DLR Group as design architect, Barton Malow and AECOM Hunt as construction manager and Florida Citrus Sports as partner (Stadium Improvement Project).

Games keep going during construction, but the streets around the Orlando stadium do not look the same. Church Street from Tampa Avenue to Rio Grande Avenue closed to vehicles on December 8, 2025 and stays closed until the summer of 2027, with the north sidewalk open; other closures first set for January were postponed indefinitely (Stadium Improvement Project).

The stadium publishes its own estimates of what big events return: $181.5 million from WrestleMania in 2017, $125 million from EDC Orlando in 2022 and roughly $45 million each year from the NFL Pro Bowl. Those are venue figures, not an independent study (Stadium Improvement Project).

The Kia Center sells prepaid parking in the ThreatLocker Garage at 400 West South Street, while Camping World Stadium fans use the lots around the stadium or the free shuttle from Central Blvd.

The ThreatLocker Garage, formerly the GEICO Garage, sits next to the Kia Center and is reached from SR408 and I-4; the 520 W Pine St. Garage is a five minute walk away. Prepaid passes are sold through Ticketmaster or the Kia Center Box Office and must be bought by 5 p.m. on the day before the event. A garage pass is good all day, but re-entry is not allowed (Kia Center).

Other downtown Orlando parking is first-come, first-served at $10 to $20. Rideshare drop-off and pickup is at the corner of Hughey and Pine Street, and buses park free along West Central Boulevard (Kia Center). Event parking bought ahead from the City of Orlando is available from two hours before the event and runs until 5:29 a.m. the next day, with extra fees after that (City of Orlando). SunRail and LYMMO also serve the arena (Kia Center).

At Camping World Stadium, designated lots can change by event and not every lot opens for every game, so each event page is the one to check. The free shuttle picks up on Central Blvd. between Garland and Hughey Ave., drops off near Gate A at Nashville Street and Church Street, and runs until 1 hour after the event ends, though it does not run for every event (Camping World Stadium). With Church Street closed west of Tampa Avenue through summer 2027, the shuttle route and the event page are worth a look before a 2026 bowl game (Stadium Improvement Project).

Teams book City of Orlando athletic fields first-come, first-serve through an online interest form, with a 2 hour minimum and a $100 refundable deposit for tournament play.

Rentable City of Orlando fields and courts cover baseball, softball, soccer, football, volleyball, tennis, outdoor basketball and futsal (City of Orlando). The steps run in order: pick a field from the city lists, read the rules, submit the preferred date and time, and wait for a call or email within 24 hours with the fee for that location (City of Orlando).

Orlando field reservations open month to month on the last Monday of each month, weekend rentals must be paid in full by Friday at noon, rentals may be cancelled until noon on the day of use, and restrooms open for rentals longer than 2 hours. No alcoholic beverages are allowed, and general liability insurance is required, either provided by the renter or bought through the city, and city insurance only covers spectators (City of Orlando).

Last verified: October 18, 2026, against the City of Orlando field rental, event parking and Orlando Venues pages and the Kia Center and Camping World Stadium calendars. City youth leagues, from tackle football to T-ball, are covered in the Orlando recreation hub rather than here.