The Kansas City Chiefs are bringing back a name that has always felt like home.
On Wednesday, the team announced that its stadium will once again be officially known as Arrowhead Stadium, dropping the GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium title that had been in place since the 2021 season.
The move comes after the Government Employees Health Association agreed to restore the venue’s traditional name while keeping its partnership with the franchise intact. The naming-rights deal signed in 2021 gave the stadium the GEHA Field branding, but it never really stuck.
Even Andy Reid kept getting tripped up by it in press conferences, often calling it “G.E.H. Field.”
Arrowhead’s identity was already locked in long before the rebrand. The stadium opened in 1972 and has remained one of the NFL’s most recognizable places to watch a game. That familiarity showed again during the recent FIFA World Cup, when the building was temporarily called Kansas City Stadium for six matches under tournament naming rules, yet it was still widely known around Kansas City and beyond as Arrowhead Stadium.
The Chiefs said the GEHA relationship is not ending. The partnership continues, and the Chiefs Military Mission presented by GEHA will stay in place as well. That program supports service members and their families through efforts such as military base visits and holiday outreach programs.
For now, the Chiefs will keep calling Arrowhead home through the end of their current lease in 2031. After that, the organization plans to move into a new $3 billion enclosed stadium in Kansas City, Kansas.
The team recently released renderings for the project, which is expected to seat 70,000 fans. No official name has been announced for that future venue.
The timing of the name change also lands as Kansas City looks ahead to 2026 after a rough 2025 season. The Chiefs went 6-11 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2014.
Kansas City is set to open its 2026 regular season on Sept. 14 at home against the Denver Broncos.
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