Cowboys and Rangers in Arlington: One Walkable NFL-MLB Stadium-District Weekend (2026)

The weekend of September 18 to 20. The Rangers host the Blue Jays from September 18 to 20, and the Cowboys host the Commanders on Sunday, September 20. It is the only 2026 weekend both the Cowboys and Rangers are home, and AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field sit about 0.75 miles apart, so you can do the whole doubleheader on foot from one base: Rangers on Saturday, Cowboys on Sunday.

The Cowboys play eight home games in 2026, but only one of them lands while the Rangers are also home. The Rangers season winds down in late September, so every Cowboys home game after September 20 falls once baseball is over. The overlap happens exactly once.

Here is what that weekend holds:

The Rangers host the Blue Jays for a three-game series that runs Friday through Sunday. The Cowboys-Commanders game is the Sunday anchor, with the Rangers series giving you the flexible Saturday slot.

Arlington is one of a handful of places where the NFL and MLB stadiums sit a short walk apart. AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field are about 0.75 miles apart, roughly a 15-minute walk, in a single stadium district. You never need a car or a transit transfer between the two games.

That proximity is the whole reason the weekend works as a doubleheader. You are not driving across a metro or splitting the trip between two cities. You walk.

The clean shape is Rangers on Saturday, Cowboys on Sunday, with one base near the two stadiums. Book a hotel in the stadium district and the walk between venues becomes your only transit for the weekend: no rental car, no second check-in, no cross-metro drive on game day.

Book the September 18 to 20 weekend. It is the only one in 2026 that puts both teams at home, and the three-game Rangers series gives you a flexible Saturday around the Sunday football game. If you want an Arlington football-and-baseball weekend, this is the 2026 window; the next chance depends on schedules that are not published yet.

Plan the weekend with the Dallas-Fort Worth destination guide, compare the home schedules on the Cowboys team page and the Rangers team page, or open the itinerary planner to price it.

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