Welcome Stadium is an 11,000-seat

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Dayton, Ohio Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Day ...

, United States, owned and operated by

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. Primary tenants of the facility include University of Dayton Flyers football team and the

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of the

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History

It opened in 1949, and is home to all of the city's high schools. Since 1974, it has also been home to the Dayton Flyers football team. It hosted the 1961

Aviation Bowl The Aviation Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game played at Welcome Stadium in Dayton, Ohio, on December 9, 1961, between the New Mexico Lobos and the Western Michigan Broncos. New Mexico won by a score of 28 to 12. Attendance for the ...

and the

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High School State

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finals for the years 1999–2003. It hosted the

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Men's division in 1953 and 1957 the Women's division in 1963 and 1969. It also hosts Ohio's High School (OMEA) marching band finals in late October, early November. Soccer club

were tenants. On July 27, 2019, the stadium hosted a

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training camp. The event was part of commemorations of the

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's official centennial season, paying tribute to one of its charter franchises—the

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. The team and NFL originally aimed for the camp to be held on new turf at the Triangles' former home field,

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(site of the NFL's first game), but the construction was called off after the discovery of a "unique and sizable anomaly" on the site in an archaeological survey.

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