What’s the record attendance for a Cowboy’s game at AT&T stadium?

From their old stadium to the newer AT&T Stadium in Arlington, the Dallas Cowboys have sold out their home games every year since 2002. As the most valuable franchise and the most popular football team in the NFL, the Cowboys don’t have an issue getting fans to tune in, or show up to the stadium.

Record attendance for a Cowboys game at AT&T Stadium

The Cowboys’ old stadium in Irving, Texas Stadium, had a seating capacity of only 65,675. In 2009, the new stadium was opened in Arlington, now called AT&T Stadium, and is much bigger and much better.

Not only does it have art, shopping, fine dining, and a giant 4k HD screen, but AT&T Stadium also seats 80,000 people, with the capacity to hold over 100,000 with standing room, which is the largest stadium by seating capacity in the NFL.

It was the same year the stadium opened in 2009 that the Cowboys broke the attendance record for a Game at the stadium in their first regular-season home Game. Take all the hype around the first home Game in a brand spankin’ new stadium, plus an NFC East rivalry, and you’ve got the recipe for a massive crowd. The record attendance was set when the Cowboys played the New York Giants on September 20, 2009 with a whopping 105,121 fans in the audience. Amongst those fans were former President George W. Bush, who was in charge of the coin toss ahead of the Game. The Cowboys unfortunately lost the Game 33-31 with Giants quarterback Eli Manning leading them to a last-second field goal by Lawrence Tynes.

It’s hard to believe, but there was an even bigger audience at AT&T Stadium for a game after that, but it wasn’t for a Cowboys game. In 2010, AT&T Stadium hosted the NBA All-Star Game, and a record 108,713 people showed up, breaking the record for any other basketball game in history.