Cowboys Stadium Capacity

[SaltwaterServr]

Probably a few of you ran across the blurb on the DMN blogs, but our official capacity is 111,947. That makes it the biggest football stadium in the U.S., but Penn State doesn't include standing room figures for Beaver Stadium which might push them over our capacity.

For what it's worth, the next biggest stadium in the NFL is FedEx with a quaint capacity of 20,000 less than Cowboys Stadium.

The new New Jersey Vagiants stadium will hold 82,000 or 83,000, but will be obsolete the day it opens thanks to the model of all things great in stadium architecture here in Texas.

On a world wide scale, excluding the various racetracks, Cowboys Stadium comes in at the third largest in the world behind a mutli-use stadium in North Korea of all places and one in India. The North Korean stadium supposedly holds 150,000. The one in India holds 125,000 or something close to it.

When we kick off in September, we'll hold the record for the largest crowd to ever see an NFL game.

 

[SilberBlau]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_by_capacity

Rank 47, not 3. which makes sense since standing room shouldn't count.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_by_capacity

Rank 47, not 3. which makes sense since standing room shouldn't count.

Stadium spectator capacity is stadium spectator capacity. Huh, somewhere I read that the seating capacity was just over 82,000 and some change. Everything I read now says 80,000. That would put us at 47th.

 

[cobra]

Stadium spectator capacity is stadium spectator capacity. Huh, somewhere I read that the seating capacity was just over 82,000 and some change. Everything I read now says 80,000. That would put us at 47th.

Don't always trust wikipedia. Who knows who wrote that article on it and where they got the 80,000. Personally, I doubt out capacity is a nice round number like 80,000 so they probably pulled it from some speculative report.

 

[DemonBlood]

Hurm, didn't one of the soccer matches held at the stadium have over 80,000? Or was it also counting standing places?

 

[Yeagermeister]

On that Build It Bigger show they said the normal capacity was like 80k but the seats can be reconfigured to add more seats (basically cramming them together).

 

[big dog cowboy]

On that Build It Bigger show they said the normal capacity was like 80k but the seats can be reconfigured to add more seats (basically cramming them together).

That is correct. The seats are not permanently mounted so they can be moved closer together for additional seating. And less arm and leg room I assume.