20 most popular sports locations on Instagram

Attending a professional sporting event is only partially about the game itself — if you really cared only about that, you’d just stay at home and watch it on TV. Attending in person is much more about showing all your followers on social media that you are a Cool Person Who Does Interesting Things. So you’ll head to your favorite team’s arena, line up the perfect shot, pick a filter, and put it on Instagram — now everyone knows you were there.

The following list contains the 20 most Instagrammed sports locations in the world. These are the places people most want to share with their friends when they go to them. Some of them host a wide array of events — others are simply iconic.

Let’s take a look:

Home to Palmeiras in São Paolo, Brazil, Allianz Parque can hold more than 43,000 people and hosts a multitude of other events as well — in fact, its inaugural event in 2014 was a Paul McCartney concert.

Affectionately called the Big A, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have played here through nearly all of their iterations (Anaheim Angels and California Angels).

Not to be confused with American Airlines Center in Dallas, AmericanAirlines Arena is in Miami, and it’s where the Miami Heat play. It is also home to the Waterfront Theater, Florida’s largest theater.

Yankees, you are so close behind another New York team. This is the second Yankee Stadium — the site of the original has been turned into a public park.

The first stadium in the U.K. on this list, Wembley is home to Tottenham Hotspur, for now. (White Hart Lane, Hotspur’s stadium since the 19th century, was just demolished.) The U.K. national soccer team also plays here, and it is the headquarters for the Football Association, the U.K.’s football governing body.

Mets fans can officially hold it over their Yankees counterparts that their stadium is more popular on the world’s favorite photo-sharing app. Congratulations, folks!

This location is a boardwalk built in Rio de Janeiro specifically for the Olympics that connected the competition locations — but it remains today as a museum to commemorate the 2016 Summer Games.

Home to FC Barcelona, this is the second football arena on our list and also the largest in Europe in number of spectators it can hold. The 1992 Olympics soccer final was held at this stadium.

Levi’s Stadium is a California landmark; something that will prove to be a trend. The 49ers play here, and the stadium also hosts college football’s Foster Farms Bowl.

MetLife Stadium is where both the New York Giants and Jets host their home games. The light-up displays are changed from blue to green, depending on who is at home that week. Another fun fact? Despite being home to two New York teams, MetLife is located in New Jersey.

Nicknamed “The Hangar” because of its Air Canada sponsorship, this downtown Toronto arena is home to the Raptors and the Maple Leafs. The Rock — Toronto’s professional lacrosse team — also plays here.

This arena has been home to Real Madrid since 1947. It’s hosted both UEFA European Championship and FIFA World Cup finals. It’s our first soccer (or football) stadium on this list and for good reason — it may be the most famous.

One of the newer U.S. locations on this list, AT&T Park is the San Francisco Giants home field. What’s fun about AT&T Park is that it’s situated along the San Francisco Bay in a spot called McCovey Cove, named after famed Giants first baseman Willie McCovey.

Another stadium shared by two teams in the same league, this is where the Lakers call home. They share it with the Clippers, the Kings, and the Sparks. Plenty of other performances take place at the Staples Center too, as evidenced by the Taylor Swift banner that hangs next to the Lakers banners.

Instagram was just coming into vogue during the Sochi Winter Games. Of course, people continue to visit the park. Some of the buildings still host hockey games and concerts, and even FIFA matches.

It’s safe to say the Rio Olympics took place at the height of Instagram (not that IG has gone downhill since then). Naturally, those who were at the games — athletes and fans included — had to document it online.

This is the oldest of the MLB parks in the United States. Home to the Red Sox since 1912, Fenway Park has many quirks, like the Lone Red Seat, and is considered something of a shrine to baseball fans.

Home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, this is the oldest ballpark west of the Mississippi and third-oldest overall. The stadium also briefly was home to the Angels in the 1960s.

This one’s not a surprise. The Cubs’ field is already iconic, featured in such movies as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Rookie of the Year. After the Cubs won the World Series, the team only got more popular. Wrigley Field is also the second-oldest ballpark in the U.S.

Again, no surprise here. Not only is The Garden home to the New York Knicks, Liberty and Rangers, it also hosts boxing matches, ice shows, concerts and other large scale events.

Data for this piece was provided by Instagram.