2028 Olympics Venues: Where LA28 Happens

The 2028 Summer Olympics will be held in and around Los Angeles, with the Games scheduled for July 14 to 30, 2028. The organising committee, LA28, is using an almost entirely existing set of venues, iconic stadiums and arenas already built for professional and college sport, rather than constructing new permanent Olympic facilities.

That reuse-first philosophy is the defining feature of the LA28 plan, and it is spread across a series of geographic clusters throughout Southern California. Here is where the Games will actually happen, based on LA28’s official venue framework.

The big idea: no new permanent stadiums

Most host cities spend billions building new venues that struggle to find a use afterward. Los Angeles is taking the opposite approach. As a city that has hosted the Games twice before (1932 and 1984), LA already has a deep bench of world-class stadiums and arenas, so LA28 committed to a plan built around existing and temporary venues.

This keeps infrastructure costs down and avoids the “white elephant” venues that have burdened other host cities. It also means the venues will already be familiar to sports fans, because many are home to NFL, NBA, MLB and major college teams.

The marquee venues

A handful of headline sites will carry the biggest events of the Games.

Venue	Location	Known for
SoFi Stadium	Inglewood	Ultra-modern NFL stadium; a centrepiece venue
LA Memorial Coliseum	Exposition Park	Athletics; host of 1932 and 1984 Games
Intuit Dome	Inglewood	Newest NBA arena; basketball
Crypto.com Arena	Downtown LA	Major indoor arena events
Peacock Theater	Downtown LA	Indoor sports and ceremonies-area events
Rose Bowl	Pasadena	Football (soccer)
Long Beach waterfront	Long Beach	Sailing and coastal/water sports

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum carries special weight: it hosted the main events of both the 1932 and 1984 Olympics, making LA28 its third Games. Pairing that history with the state-of-the-art SoFi Stadium and Intuit Dome in Inglewood gives the 2028 Olympics a blend of heritage and cutting-edge facilities.

Venue clusters across the region

LA28 organises venues into clusters to reduce travel and concentrate the action. Broadly, these include:

• Downtown / Exposition Park cluster: the Coliseum, Crypto.com Arena and nearby indoor venues, forming a dense hub of events.
• South Bay / Inglewood cluster: SoFi Stadium and the Intuit Dome, anchoring the modern stadium district.
• Long Beach cluster: the waterfront and marina for sailing and other coastal sports, plus arena and convention-centre events.
• Valley and outlying sites: additional venues spread across the wider region for specific sports.

Some sports are also planned to be staged outside Los Angeles in other US cities, which LA28 confirms as part of a nationwide footprint for certain events. Because these assignments are periodically updated, the current, authoritative list always lives on the official LA28 site.

New sports for 2028

The 2028 programme adds sports beyond the classic Olympic lineup, reflecting the host country’s interests and the IOC’s push to attract younger audiences. Several new and returning sports feature for these Games, and we cover them in detail in our guide to the new Olympic sports for 2028, including the return of one bat-and-ball sport and the Olympic debut of another field sport, which we look at in lacrosse at the 2028 Olympics.

A city built for the Games

Los Angeles is one of only a handful of cities to host the Summer Olympics three times, after 1932 and 1984, and that history is a big reason the reuse model works so well. The 1984 Games are often held up as the template for a financially successful Olympics, because they leaned on existing venues and private funding and turned a profit rather than leaving debt behind. LA28 is deliberately echoing that approach.

The legacy angle matters too. By avoiding new permanent stadiums, LA28 sidesteps the problem of costly venues that sit empty after the closing ceremony, an issue that has haunted several recent host cities. Instead, the focus shifts to temporary infrastructure and upgrades to transport and existing facilities that the region can keep using long after the athletes go home.

Tickets, dates and what is still to come

The Games run July 14 to 30, 2028, followed by the Paralympics. Full ticket pricing and sales phases are released by LA28 closer to the event, so any specific prices circulating far in advance should be treated with caution. The same goes for a few venue details that can shift as planning is finalised.

If you are curious how the Olympic calendar looks around 2028: the 2026 Winter Games are in Milan-Cortina, Italy; 2028 Summer in Los Angeles; 2030 Winter in the French Alps; and 2032 Summer in Brisbane, Australia. For a sense of which events draw the biggest crowds at any Summer Games, our look at the most popular Olympic sports is a good companion read.

The bottom line

The 2028 Olympics are a Los Angeles Games built on venues that already exist, from the historic Coliseum to the brand-new SoFi Stadium and Intuit Dome, arranged in clusters to keep the sprawling city manageable. It is a deliberately cost-conscious model, and it means fans will watch the world’s best athletes in stadiums many already know well. For the definitive, up-to-date venue-by-sport breakdown, LA28’s official website is the source to check.