Kyle Field is the home ground of Texas A&M Aggie football team since its foundation in 1904. It is located on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas, United States. In 1904, Edwin Jackson Kyle ( a professor of horticulture and the then president of the General Athletics Association of Texas A&M University) initiated for the stadium to promote school's athletics and gave significant efforts in building the arena. At present, it is the fourth largest stadium in the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) as well as in the United States, It ranks as the sixth-largest non-racing stadium in the world and the largest in Texas.
On June 15, 2024, Kyle Field set a U.S. attendance record for a ticketed concert when country music star George Strait performed there. The event drew 110,905 spectators, making it the largest ticketed concert in the country at the time.
Kyle Field hosted its first international soccer match on June 8, 2024, when Brazil defeated Mexico 3–2 in a friendly ahead of the Copa América. The game attracted 85,249 spectators. Two years later, on June 6, 2026, Argentina faced Honduras at the stadium and won 2–0 in front of 91,102 fans, setting a new attendance record for a soccer match at Kyle Field.
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On 22nd September 2001 (just eleven days after the September 11 attacks), the students of the University organized a "Red, White and Blue-Out" where each deck of the stadium was assigned a different color shirt to be worn for the first game for the Aggies after the attacks, against Oklahoma State.
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More than $150,000 were raised in the shirt sales and were given to FDNY (Fire Department of the City of New York) charities.
