The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team is headquartered in Frisco, Texas, and has played its home games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, since its opening in 2009. The stadium took its current name prior to the 2013 season.[6] In January 2020, Mike McCarthy was hired as head coach of the Cowboys.[7] He is the ninth in the team's history.[8] McCarthy follows Jason Garrett, who coached the team from 2010 to 2019.