About 950 workers will be involved in the cleanup and conversion of Mercedes-Benz Stadium from a soccer venue Saturday to a football venue Sunday night, according to stadium officials.
This weekend’s Atlanta United and Falcons games mark the first time the new stadium has hosted events on back-to-back days.
The 2-million-square-foot stadium will be cleaned overnight, including trash pick-up, wiping off the 71,000-plus seats, sweeping, pressure-washing and more.
An operations schedule lists dozens of tasks for workers to complete between the games.
Beyond the massive clean-up job, one of the major tasks involves re-extending the retractable seats, which were pushed back to widen the field in the four corners for soccer, to restore about 900 lower-level seats for the Falcons game. A team of workers is assigned to each corner.
Other between-games tasks run a wide gamut – from removing the soccer benches to installing the goalposts to scrubbing and repainting the field.
And then, of course, there's the matter of opening the retractable roof.
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