Subway Series Dates: Yankees-Mets Sept 11-13, Plus Giants-Cowboys
Past trip: Yankees-Mets played at Yankee Stadium Sept 11-13, 2026, followed by Giants-Cowboys at MetLife on Sunday night. A look back at the four-game weekend.
Past trip: these games have been played. The Sept 11-13, 2026 weekend in this guide is over, and tickets can no longer be bought for these games. We have kept the guide as a historical reference for combining Yankee Stadium and MetLife in one trip. Prices were planning estimates at writing, not current booking quotes; venue and transit notes describe the original trip, so check current rules and schedules before a future visit.
September 11-13, 2026 was the featured weekend. Three Yankees-Mets games at Yankee Stadium landed back to back to back, and the Giants opened Sunday Night Football against Dallas hours after the last out. Four games, zero schedule conflicts, one 72-hour window in New York.
Which New York weekend combined Yankees-Mets and Giants-Cowboys in 2026?
Sept 11-13 combined three Yankees-Mets games with the Giants-Cowboys Sunday Night Football opener. The schedule fit all four: Sunday's 1:35 PM finale at Yankee Stadium came before the 8:20 PM kickoff at MetLife. At writing, this was the regular-season option compared with the August 28 night when the same teams shared the city alongside exhibition football.
The one weekend that stacks cleanly
| Date | Matchup | Local Time | Venue | Ticket Est. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Sept 11 | Mets at Yankees | 7:05 PM | Yankee Stadium | $160 |
| Sat, Sept 12 | Mets at Yankees | 1:35 PM | Yankee Stadium | $160 |
| Sun, Sept 13 | Mets at Yankees | 1:35 PM | Yankee Stadium | $160 |
| Sun, Sept 13 | Cowboys at Giants | 8:20 PM | MetLife Stadium | $290 |
Three Subway Series games in the Bronx, then Sunday Night Football in East Rutherford. No team's schedule forces you to skip another's.
Sunday's day game, then the night game
Sunday carries the whole plan. The Yankees-Mets finale starts at 1:35 PM and is over well before dinner. The Giants don't kick off until 8:20 PM. That gap is the mechanism, not a lucky coincidence: it's what makes four games fit inside three days without missing one.
Take the gap away and this is just two schedules that happen to share a city. Keep it, and Sunday runs a day game into a night game, same day, two sports, two states.
Two stadiums, two states, one day-of plan
Yankee Stadium runs on New York City transit. The 4, B, and D subway lines stop at 161st Street-Yankee Stadium, and Metro-North's Hudson Line pulls up beside the ballpark. Base yourself in Manhattan or the Bronx for the three afternoon and evening games and every first pitch is a short ride away.
MetLife Stadium is a different trip. It sits in East Rutherford, New Jersey, reached by NJ TRANSIT Rail to Meadowlands Station or the Coach USA 351 bus from Port Authority. There is no walking route or single subway line between the two venues. Treat Sunday as two separate transit legs, not one continuous hop, and build in a real buffer between the final out and kickoff.
At Yankee Stadium, bags top out at 16 inches by 16 inches by 8 inches, soft-sided only, and gates typically open 90 minutes before first pitch. MetLife requires clear bags no larger than 12 inches by 6 inches by 12 inches (small clutches up to 4.5 inches by 6.5 inches are the exception), with gates opening about two hours before kickoff. Two states, two rulebooks. Plan for both.
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What the weekend was estimated to cost
$347 was the planning baseline for a New York hotel night at writing, not a current booking quote. Three nights Friday through Sunday put estimated lodging alone in the $1,000-plus range before a single ticket.
The Yankees-Mets games were estimated at about $160 apiece at the venue-estimate level. Three of them added up before the Giants ticket entered the math. The Giants-Cowboys estimate was the largest single ticket figure on the weekend at $290, making it the budget anchor in the original plan.
At writing, season-long ticket estimates averaged $160 for the Yankees, $120 for the Mets, and $310 for the Giants. The Sept 13 estimate tracked close to other Giants Sundays. The MLB games were the volume cost; the NFL ticket was the budget anchor.
Skip the August preseason lookalike
One earlier night looks like the same trip. On August 28, the Yankees, Mets, and Jets-Giants all play in the same city at once. It isn't the same trip.
That game is a preseason exhibition, third-string snaps, no playoff stakes. The Sept 11-13 weekend paired a full regular-season Subway Series with a regular-season Giants-Cowboys opener. That was the distinction behind the original September recommendation; both date windows are now past.
New York stacks more than one multi-league weekend this season. A prior look at NFL and NHL overlap weekends found New York leads every city with 11 such combinations across the 2026-27 calendar. At writing, Sept 11-13 was the featured four-game example with no scheduled overlaps.
The original plan used Friday through Sunday: a base near Yankee Stadium for three games, then a separate trip to MetLife Sunday evening for the finale.
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