Aviva Stadium

The ground stands on the site of Lansdowne Road, demolished in 2007. The decision to redevelop came after plans for two other venues, Stadium Ireland and Eircom Park, fell through. Work began on 18 May 2007 to designs by Populous and Scott Tallon Walker, producing an all-seated bowl of 51,711. The northern end carries only the lower tier because of the housing behind it, and the roof undulates so as not to block light from those homes. The capacity drew criticism before the stadium opened as too small against the crowds the national teams had been pulling at Croke Park since 2007.

Brian Cowen, then Taoiseach, opened the stadium on 14 May 2010, and both national teams moved back from Croke Park, their home through the construction. In 2011 the building won a British Construction Industry Award.

Lansdowne Road had belonged to the Irish Rugby Football Union alone. Its replacement is run by the IRFU and the Football Association of Ireland through a 50:50 joint venture, the Lansdowne Road Stadium Development Company, which holds a sixty-year lease; on expiry the stadium returns to the IRFU alone. Aviva Group Ireland took the naming rights on a ten-year deal in 2009 and extended in 2018 and 2025, the latest running to 2030. Under UEFA rules against corporate sponsorship from outside the federation, the ground is billed as the Dublin Arena for UEFA fixtures.

The first rugby played there was an exhibition on 31 July 2010, the O2 Challenge, in which a combined Leinster and Ulster side of under-18 and under-20 players beat a Munster and Connacht selection 68-0; Ulster's Craig Gilroy scored the first official points. Ireland's first international followed on 6 November 2010, South Africa winning 23-21 in front of 35,515. The turnout was blamed on a supporter backlash against the IRFU's ticketing for that November series, which had bundled the Tests into multi-match packages until the union abandoned the plan on 1 November.

Ireland won twelve consecutive home matches between 2016 and 2018 and bettered that in the 2023 Six Nations; the 29-16 defeat of England on 18 March 2023 brought a fourth Grand Slam. Beating Scotland on 16 March 2024 made Ireland back-to-back outright Six Nations champions for only the third time. New Zealand ended a home run of nineteen straight wins stretching back to February 2021, beating Ireland 23-13 in November 2024.

Leinster play here when demand outgrows the RDS Arena: their 22-18 win over Munster on 29 March 2014 drew 51,700, a league record. Two European club finals have been played at the ground, Toulon beating Clermont Auvergne 16-15 in the 2013 Heineken Cup final and La Rochelle beating Leinster 27-26 in the 2023 Champions Cup final.

The first football match, on 4 August 2010, was Manchester United against a League of Ireland XI; United won 7-1, and Park Ji-sung scored the first goal at the ground. The Republic of Ireland lost their first international there 1-0 to Argentina on 11 August 2010, and Kevin Kilbane scored the first competitive goal on 7 September 2010, against Andorra in Euro 2012 qualifying.

The FAI Cup final has been played at the stadium every year since 2010, when Sligo Rovers beat Shamrock Rovers on penalties before 36,101, the largest cup-final crowd since 1968; the 2023 final between St Patrick's Athletic and Bohemians drew 43,881, a record for the fixture. In February 2025 Bohemians beat Shamrock Rovers 1-0 in front of 33,208, the largest recorded at a League of Ireland Premier Division game.

The stadium was Ireland's first UEFA Category 4 ground and staged the 2011 Europa League final, Porto beating Braga 1-0 through a Falcao goal. UEFA named it in September 2014 as host of four Euro 2020 fixtures. The tournament was postponed to 2021, and restrictions still in force after the pandemic's third wave, which killed thousands in Ireland early that year, left Dublin unable to satisfy UEFA's hosting requirements; on 23 April 2021 the group games were reallocated to the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg and the knockout tie to Wembley.

On 16 July 2021 UEFA awarded the stadium the 2024 Europa League final in settlement, recognising the effort and money already spent on the abandoned hosting. Atalanta won that final 3-0 against Bayer Leverkusen, taking their first European trophy. Matches at the ground were confirmed for Euro 2028 in October 2023. During the pandemic the Irish Army ran testing at the stadium under Operation Fortitude from 14 May, taking over from the Naval Service.