John Oehser

JACKSONVILLEThe vision is coming into view.

So is theStadium of the Futurein downtown Jacksonville, withJaguars President Mark Lampingon Wednesday morning meeting with media to update how stadium renovations will affect the fans and team in the coming seasons.

Much has happened to get here, with much more to come.

Lamping on Wednesday discussed multiple issues including the team's plans for playing in London the next two seasons and specified thatEverBank Stadium's capacity for Jaguars home games in Jacksonville will be 42,507 in 2026, down from 68,300. The '26 capacity includes 1,260 standing-room tickets.

The Jaguars will play home games away from Jacksonville in 2027, with the renovated "Stadium of the Future" scheduled to open in 2028. They initially proposed playing away from Jacksonville in 2026 and 2027, opting for the current plan after feedback from fans and local businesses.

The stadium's upper deck the 400 level will be closed in '26, with 22,000 of the 27,637 removed seats located there.

Lamping, too, said the Jaguars are also accepting new season-ticket deposits.

Lamping on Wednesday also addressed:

• The team's London's plans for 2026 and 2027.The Jaguars will play two games in London in 2026, both designated home games. One will be played at Wembley Stadium, with the other played at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Jaguars will play eight home games in Jacksonville in 2026, six in the regular season and two in the preseason. Lamping, too, said the '26 Tottenham home game was originally scheduled for 2030 as a game the Jaguars must play because of a league policy that teams play at least one home game internationally every four years a game that is separate from the Wembley/London game the team plays annually. "We're getting a game back that will be in Jacksonville in the new stadium at full capacity, and we're giving up a game at reduced capacity in the stadium here," Lamping said.

• Alternative site for 2027.Lamping said the team is getting "very close to a resolution on where we'll be playing in 2027," with Florida Field in Gainesville and Camping World Stadium in Orlando the likely options. Lamping said league owners are expected to vote on the issue at the NFL Annual Meetings in Phoenix, Ariz., in late March. "Then we'll be able to move on at that point and begin planning," he said. "It can't be officially 100 percent guaranteed until the full ownership body of the National Football League votes on it. That vote can't happen any earlier than the end of March."

• The 2026 schedule.Lamping said the team is hoping for what he called "a donut" schedule in 2026, with home games scheduled late and early in the season and a break in the middle of the schedule. The idea is to have an extended period with no home games to allow for construction inside the stadium if necessary. "One of the reasons that was important is because we have to have all of our preliminary work done by the end of the 2026 season, because once the season ends, things go really gangbusters," he said. Lamping said the team toward that end will ask for a bye week following the second of the back-to-back London home games. "If we're granted that, then that two-week window [away from Jacksonville] becomes three weeks," he said. "In addition to that, we're going to ask that we play a road game either before our first London game or after our bye week. If that happens, then from a construction perspective we have the optimal schedule which gives us almost a month-long doughnut right in the middle of the season. Again, this isn't guaranteed."

• Construction update :Fifteen percent of Stadium renovation is complete, Lamping said, with 75 "deep foundation" elements installed and outside foundation work expected to be complete by August. Lamping also said grand staircases and main concourse expansions are under construction, with 550 workers currently on site daily and more expected as construction continues. "A lot of work needs to get done between now and August," he said. "We're on schedule, but have a long, long way to go."

• and more updates.The Jaguars' new business office building at One Tower Court across Bay Street from the Stadium opened Monday. The Four Seasons Hotel, marina and riverwalk continue to progress, with the marina and riverwalk expected to open late this summer.

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