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Gates open about 90 minutes before kickoff here.
Your leave-by time is the first travel row. Ready Time can alert you when it comes up. Put in your kickoff time, tap any duration, and the plan recomputes backward.
MLS matchday at Bank of America Stadium, home of Charlotte FC. For a concert here, start from the concert night plan instead: doors and a support act, not gates and kickoff.
Get an alert on matchday when it’s time to leave for Bank of America Stadium.
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Kickoff times here are the club's own. Apple TV carries every match, so there is no national window to slot into and each club picks its own local start. These are the ones this venue usually plays.
These are Bank of America Stadium’s own times. The club publishes the kickoff with the fixture and moves it around across a season, so take the time on your ticket over the one you remember.
Midweek league matches, cup ties and the playoffs run their own times, and a few are moved for heat or for broadcast. Type those in on the kickoff row.
The LYNX Blue Line runs through Uptown and the Brooklyn Village, Carson and Convention Center stops are all within a few blocks, which skips the deck queue on the way out. Brooklyn Village is the stop some directions still call Stonewall; it was renamed in 2022 and the old name is on plenty of pages that have not caught up. Driving, Uptown parking is decks rather than fields and they empty far more slowly than they fill.
Uptown, so for a lot of people the last leg is a walk from a deck, a bar or a hotel rather than a drive. Lots open at 11:00 AM and the stadium lots are pass-holder only. The time on the schedule and the moment the ball moves are not the same here: a match listed at 7:30 tends to kick at 7:40.
Clear-bag policy at every MLS stadium. Getting it wrong usually means walking back to the car and re-entering the line.
Check current sizes and door times on the official Charlotte FC matchday page before you go, because the door time moves for a night game or a midweek fixture.
Gates are set to a clock rather than to kickoff, usually 6:00 PM, which is ninety minutes before a 7:30 match and less before a later one. Clear bag policy. Open air in a city centre, so the walk in is short and an August match is genuinely hot.
Usually 6:30 PM
The march steps off from the supporters’ tailgate on McNinch Street
Gates have a window. A march has a departure, and it goes whether you are there or not. Join it and you work back from the step-off rather than the gate, which means leaving earlier and standing at the muster point with time in hand.
The supporters' tailgate at 703 McNinch Street opens at 3:30 PM and the march leaves from there, passing Clutch Kitchen & Pour House on the way in. Mint City Collective hosts the lot and the walk is open to anyone. The step-off is a clock time rather than a fixed count back from kickoff, and it has moved between 6:15 and 7:15 across a season, so take it from the club's guide for your own match.
Gates, lots and bag rules change; the official site is the live source.
Gates open about 90 minutes before kickoff here; that is when the crowd starts arriving, not when you have to. Without a march, being through a gate about half an hour before kickoff covers screening, the walk to your section, and a stop on the concourse.
Work backward from kickoff: minutes in your seat beforehand, walk to your section, gate screening, walk from the lot, parking, then the drive (20 minutes in the default plan). That puts leave-by at 6:11 PM for a 7:30 PM kickoff. Change the kickoff time and every row moves.
It is whatever the club has scheduled, and these are local times rather than a converted national window. On this stadium's clock: an afternoon match kicks off at 1:00 PM, a night match at 7:30 PM. This example uses the night window. Midweek matches, cup ties and playoff rounds run their own times; the kickoff row is editable for those.
The plan allows 12 minutes for a normal walk-through queue. It runs longer in the twenty minutes before kickoff. Arriving fifteen minutes off that peak is usually enough.
About 90 minutes before kickoff here, rather than the two hours that is the common practice at an NFL game. It moves for a midweek match, cup tie or playoff round. Check the official Charlotte FC matchday page for your game.
It steps off from the supporters’ tailgate on McNinch Street, usually 6:30 PM. Join it and you need to be at the muster point ahead of it, rather than at the gate on time.
Assume a clear bag or no bag. Check the stadium's own page for current sizes. The timing risk is being turned around at the gate and walking back to the car: the walk twice and a second trip through the queue.
Flying in? The airport pages. Taking Amtrak? The station pages. No stadium listed? The tailgate timeline is the same plan without a particular lot.
Start the plan in the app, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left, with a bar that fills as each step passes.
Glance at it on the walk in without opening the app.
Every step also gets its own alert, and sharing the plan gives whoever is driving the same leave time, with alerts on their phone.
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