Dickies Arena
Dickies Arena is a 14,000-seat multipurpose arena, located within the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. 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 and is owned by Fort Worth and managed by the not-for-profit Multipurpose Arena Fort Worth.
It hosts concerts, sporting events, and family entertainment, and serves as the home of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. The rodeo is sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and has been held at Dickies Arena since 2020. The venue was the home of the Professional Bull Riders World Finals in 2022 and 2023. Since 2022, it has been the home arena of Rattler Days; the hometown event of the Texas Rattlers during the PBR Team Series season. In 2025, the PBR hosted its Last Cowboy Standing event as part of the rodeo. In 2026, the last four days of the PBR World Finals will return to Dickies Arena. 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.Seating
With a wide variety of seating configurations, the arena is able to accommodate many styles of events. There are 3 standard levels: plaza level, suite and loge box level, and gallery level ; 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
Cancelled shows
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.
- Since 2020, Dickies Arena has been home to the rodeo section of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. It has been sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for many years and was previously held at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum.
- 2021 and 2022 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
- The American Athletic Conference has hosted its annual American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament and American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament at Dickies Arena each year since 2021.
- Dickies Arena hosted first and second-round games during the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
- 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.
- The Professional Bull Riders hosted a regular-season Unleash the Beast Series event at Dickies Arena on August 29 and 30, 2020. The event returned on August 28 and 29, 2021. 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. Also since 2022, Dickies Arena has been the home venue of Rattler Days; the hometown event of the Texas Rattlers during the PBR Team Series season held every summer through autumn. For several years, a PRCA Xtreme Bulls event called Bulls' Night Out was held as part of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. However, in 2025, the all-bull riding event at the rodeo was the PBR's Last Cowboy Standing event. In 2026, the Bulls' Night Out event returned to the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. Also, the PBR World Finals will return to Dickies Arena in 2026 for the event's "Championship" rounds.
- 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.
- From October 31 through November 7, Dickies Arena hosted the 2022 WTA Finals.
- Dickies Arena hosted the from August 8 through August 11, 2024.
- The arena hosted the 2024 Fortnite Championship Series Global Championship on September 7 and 8, 2024.
- The Rocket League Championship Series returned for their 2024 World Championship event, held from September 10 through September 15.
- Dickies Arena will host the Fort Worth Super Regional rounds of the 2026 NCAA Women's Basketball March Madness tournament.