Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium

The Buccaneers play home games at Raymond James Stadium on North Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa, a stadium owned by Hillsborough County and managed for it by the Tampa Sports Authority (Hillsborough County).

The stadium's address is 4201 N. Dale Mabry Hwy., Tampa, FL 33607 (Raymond James Stadium).

The authority calls it a 65,000-seat stadium, expandable to 75,000, that broke ground in 1996 and opened on September 20, 1998 with a Buccaneers home game against the Chicago Bears (Tampa Sports Authority). A different figure sits on the City of Tampa's stadiums listing, which puts seating at 65,657 and counts more than 12,000 club seats and 195 suites (City of Tampa). Neither page explains the difference.

The Dale Mabry site is busy beyond football Sundays. The authority estimates more than 1.4 million fans at Raymond James Stadium events in fiscal year 2026, with Buccaneers and USF football seasons alongside concerts, festivals and more than 100 banquets and parking lot events (TSA budget).

Beyond the Week 6 home game against Pittsburgh, which the schedule showed as live at Raymond James Stadium on October 18, the Buccaneers' 2026 schedule lists five more regular season home games there, the first on Sunday, November 1 against Atlanta (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).

The schedule page leaves the Week 17 Rams date as TBD, while the club's parking page already lists Week 17 for January 3 with the time to be determined (Buccaneers parking). All games are on 98ROCK radio, by the same schedule. The times above are the ones posted on October 18, 2026.

The Tampa Sports Authority's own planning shows what a full Tampa season looks like from the landlord's side: its fiscal 2027 revenue forecast assumes 12 Buccaneer games, counting 2 preseason games and 1 home playoff game (TSA budget).

On Buccaneers game days, Raymond James Stadium lots open 3.5 hours before kickoff and take only credit cards for day-of parking, with no cash accepted (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).

The club sells single-game and season parking in advance and says a season pass saves 30 percent. Uber and Lyft drop-off and pick-up are both at Steinbrenner Field (Buccaneers parking). For Buccaneers games, RVs, buses and campers park in Publix Lot 14, entered off MLK Blvd, and no vehicle may stay on stadium property overnight (Raymond James Stadium). For roadside help in the lots, such as a dead battery or a lockout, the stadium lists its Stadium Office at 813-350-6501.

A no bag policy covers every Raymond James Stadium event: each guest may bring one clutch purse no larger than 4.5 by 6.5 inches, and other bags go back to the car or into storage lockers for rent on Tom McEwen Blvd, south of the Suzuki Marine gate (Raymond James Stadium A-Z guide). Hand-held signs must be 11 by 17 inches or smaller and may not be wood or metal.

Inside, the stadium's A-Z guide says alcohol sales at concourse stands stop at the start of the fourth quarter, club areas may serve until the end, and alcohol may not be brought in or carried out (Raymond James Stadium A-Z guide).

The Buccaneers have played in Tampa since their first game on August 21, 1976, two years after the NFL granted Tampa Bay a franchise on April 24, 1974, according to the Tampa Sports Authority timeline (TSA timeline).

That first game drew 67,466 people, and Miami won 28-21 (TSA timeline). The stadium's own Buccaneers page puts the franchise start at 1976, the first season, rather than the 1974 award, and lists the team as a member of the NFC South that won Super Bowl XXXVII for the 2002 season (Raymond James Stadium). That page says nothing of Super Bowl LV, which the authority's timeline lists under February 7, 2021 as Buccaneers vs Chiefs, with the words History made (TSA timeline). The Digital Towns Super Bowls in Tampa guide covers those games in detail.

The 2025 season was the club's 50th in the National Football League, and the authority's budget notes it finished 8-9, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2019 (TSA budget).

Raymond James Stadium is run by the Tampa Sports Authority, an Independent Special District created May 28, 1965, and its construction and capital work have relied on Hillsborough County and City of Tampa money (Tampa Sports Authority; TSA budget).

The authority's fiscal 2027 and 2028 budget says the stadium was built with Community Investment Tax funds, a 30-year half-cent local option sales tax (TSA budget). In the FY 2025 distribution schedule printed in the same document, the stadium's share of CIT collections was $8,934,445, about 4 percent, against 25 percent for Hillsborough County schools.

That tax is about to change. Hillsborough County says the Community Investment Tax voters approved in September 1996 expires Nov. 30, 2026, and that the Tampa Sports Authority, which manages the stadium for the county, receives about $9 million a year from it for stadium debt service (Hillsborough County). Voters renewed the half-cent tax on Nov. 5, 2024 for December 1, 2026 through December 31, 2041; the renewed tax is to fund infrastructure for transportation and public works, public safety, public facilities, public utilities and public schools, and the county describes the renewed revenue going 5 percent to Hillsborough County Public Schools and the rest to the county and the three cities. The renewal wording, unlike the 1996 ballot, does not mention a community stadium.

Operations work on a fixed split. Interlocal agreements say that if the authority cannot cover operating costs, the City of Tampa pays one third and Hillsborough County two thirds of the deficit; for fiscal 2027 the authority asks the city for $859,084 and the county for $1,718,167 (TSA budget).

The long-range table assigns all $378,645,784 of projected 2028 to 2047 costs to county and city contributions, and the line for Buccaneers projects carries no figure in any of the three budget years (TSA budget). The capital tables in that budget are marked as of July 23, 2026.

The last big change at Raymond James Stadium was a multi-phase renovation whose first phase finished in 2016, which the Tampa Sports Authority's stadium page prices at $140-plus million (Tampa Sports Authority).

The authority's timeline records the same Raymond James Stadium project differently, as 2016 renovations approval for $100 million (TSA timeline). Both figures come from the authority, and neither page reconciles them.

The work added two 9,600 square-foot video boards at the north and south ends and, in a final phase finished before the 2018 season, rebuilt the East Club around a 10,000-square-foot sports bar named Bar 76 after the team's 1976 inaugural season (Tampa Sports Authority). The pirate ship in Buccaneer Cove fires its cannons seven times for a Buccaneers touchdown and three times for a field goal.

Readers should treat the authority's stadium page with care on dates: as of October 18, 2026 it still says Raymond James Stadium is preparing to host Wrestlemania in 2020 and Super Bowl LV in 2021 (Tampa Sports Authority), although the authority's own timeline already lists Super Bowl LV on February 7, 2021 and Wrestlemania 37 on April 10 and 11, 2021 (TSA timeline). Last verified: October 18, 2026, on the Tampa Sports Authority and Raymond James Stadium websites and the Buccaneers schedule and parking pages.