What is the largest college football stadium?

Bristol Motor Speedway is the largest stadium in the current dataset at 162,000.

Venue Atlas

Explore Every College Football Stadium in America

Q: Which college football stadiums are domes?

25 tracked college football venues are marked as domes, and you can jump directly into the dome preset to compare them.

Q: Which stadiums are at the highest elevation?

War Memorial Stadium (2,200 ft), Walkup Skydome (2,098 ft), Falcon Stadium (2,025 ft) lead the current elevation rankings.

Q: Which college football stadiums use grass or turf?

The current split is 80 grass, 760 turf, and 0 unknown.

Compare college football venues by capacity, elevation, playing surface, roof type, location, and game history. Built for fans, travel planning, betting prep, and research.

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Quick Routes

Largest Stadiums Oldest Stadiums Highest Elevation Most Games Hosted Domes Grass Fields

840
Venues Tracked
FBS home venues plus neutral-site locations with game history
162,000
Largest Capacity
Largest college football stadium currently in the dataset
100%
Surface Coverage
Venues with known grass vs turf data
100%
Roof Coverage
Venues with known open-air vs dome data

Stadium Intelligence Snapshot

A fast read on the venue dataset before you drop into the explorer.

Largest StadiumBristol Motor Speedway — 162,000
Highest ElevationWar Memorial Stadium — 2,200 ft
Most Common SurfaceTurf
Oldest Active VenueCroke Park Stadium — opened 1884

Data refreshed weekly during the season.

Record Book

Top Venues

Fast entry points into the most recognizable venue benchmarks in the dataset.

Largest Stadium

Gillette Stadium

Foxborough, MA

Capacity

68,756

Open venue

Oldest Stadium

Harvard Stadium

Boston, MA

Opened

1903

Open venue

Highest Elevation

Multi-Sport Stadium

Worcester, MA

Elevation

203 ft

Open venue

Most Games Hosted

Alumni Stadium (Chestnut Hill, MA)

Chestnut Hill, MA

Games Hosted

580

Open venue

Capacity Distribution

How the current result set breaks across venue size bands.

32 venues

<30,00028

30,000-49,9993

50,000-79,9991

80,000-99,9990

100,000+0

Surface Split

Grass2

Turf30

Unknown0

Roof Types

Open32

Dome0

Unknown0

Working Surface

College Football Stadium Explorer

Filter, sort, and compare stadiums by location, capacity, elevation, roof, surface, and game history. The explorer is the primary operating surface on this page, so the controls stay utility-first and the venue table stays scan-friendly.

Power Conference Venues 100K+ Stadiums Dome Stadiums

none	none	none	none	none	none	none	descending
Alumni Stadium (Chestnut Hill, MA) Boston College	Chestnut Hill, MA	ACC	Turf	Open	40 ft	44,500	580
Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium Massachusetts	Hadley, MA	Mid-American	Turf	Open	47 ft	17,000	170
Fenway Park Historic or neutral-site venue	Boston, MA	Unknown	Grass	Open	5 ft	38,073	1
Gillette Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Foxborough, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	78 ft	68,756	1
Alumni Field (MA) Historic or neutral-site venue	Leicester, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,000	0
Alumni Field (Westfield, MA) Historic or neutral-site venue	Westfield, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	4,000	0
Alumni Stadium (Worcester, MA) Historic or neutral-site venue	Worcester, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	2,000	0
Bentley University Football Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Waltham, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	4,800	0
Bowditch Field Historic or neutral-site venue	Framingham, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	5,300	0
Caparso Field Historic or neutral-site venue	Paxton, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,000	0
Clean Harbors Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Buzzards Bay, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	2,300	0
Cressy Field Historic or neutral-site venue	Dartmouth, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,850	0
Dale Lippert Field Historic or neutral-site venue	Franklin, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,500	0
Duane Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	North Andover, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	3,500	0
Edward C. Swenson Athletic Complex Historic or neutral-site venue	Bridgewater, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,560	0
Elliot Field Athletic Complex Historic or neutral-site venue	Fitchburg, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,200	0
Ellis Oval at Zimman Field Historic or neutral-site venue	Medford, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,000	0
Farley-Lamb Field Historic or neutral-site venue	Williamstown, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,400	0
Fitton Field Historic or neutral-site venue	Worcester, MA	Unknown	Grass	Open	137 ft	23,500	0
Golden Bear Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Springfield, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,500	0
Harvard Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Boston, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	2 ft	30,323	0
Hempstead Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Beverly, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	3,000	0
Henry G. Steinbrenner '27 Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Cambridge, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	1,000	0
John Coughlin Memorial Field Historic or neutral-site venue	Worcester, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	—	2,000	0
Multi-Sport Stadium Historic or neutral-site venue	Worcester, MA	Unknown	Turf	Open	203 ft	1,200	0

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Field Notes

Did You Know?

A quick briefing on the biggest capacity, elevation, surface, and dome takeaways in the venue set.

Big House benchmark

Bristol Motor Speedway leads the current dataset at 162,000.

Altitude edge

War Memorial Stadium (2,200 ft), Walkup Skydome (2,098 ft), Falcon Stadium (2,025 ft) lead the current elevation rankings.

Surface split

The current split is 80 grass, 760 turf, and 0 unknown.

Dome inventory

25 tracked college football venues are marked as domes, and you can jump directly into the dome preset to compare them.

Searchable College Football Stadium Database

This page is a searchable database of college football stadiums and venues, including capacity, location, playing surface, roof type, elevation, and game history where available.