Updated for the 2026 season. Capacities are official listed football capacities.
The biggest FCS venues are a mix of borrowed NFL stadiums, century old Ivy League bowls and the loud on campus fortresses in Montana and the Dakotas that actually fill up. Here are the 25 largest, ranked by capacity, followed by the ones that draw the best relative to their size.
| Rank | Stadium | Team | Capacity | Built |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nissan Stadium, Nashville | Tennessee State (OVC) | 68,798 | 1999 |
| 2 | Yale Bowl, New Haven | Yale (Ivy) | 61,446 | 1914 |
| 3 | Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, Jackson | Jackson State (SWAC) | 60,492 | 1941 |
| 4 | Franklin Field, Philadelphia | Penn (Ivy) | 52,593 | 1895 |
| 5 | William “Dick” Price Stadium, Norfolk | Norfolk State (MEAC) | 30,000 | 1997 |
| 6 | A. W. Mumford Stadium, Baton Rouge | Southern (SWAC) | 28,500 | 1928 |
| 7 | Princeton Stadium, Princeton | Princeton (Ivy) | 27,800 | 1998 |
| 8 | ASU Stadium, Montgomery | Alabama State (SWAC) | 26,500 | 2012 |
| 9 | Harvard Stadium, Boston | Harvard (Ivy) | 25,884 | 1903 |
| 10 | Washington-Grizzly Stadium, Missoula | Montana (Big Sky) | 25,200 | 1986 |
| 11 | Memorial Stadium, Stephenville | Tarleton State (UAC) | 24,000 | 1951 |
| 12 | Fitton Field, Worcester | Holy Cross (Patriot) | 23,500 | 1924 |
| 13 | Casem-Spinks Stadium, Lorman | Alcorn State (SWAC) | 22,500 | 1992 |
| 14 | Oliver C. Dawson Stadium, Orangeburg | South Carolina State (MEAC) | 22,000 | 1955 |
| 15 | Truist Stadium, Greensboro | North Carolina A&T (CAA) | 21,500 | 1981 |
| 16 | Schoellkopf Field, Ithaca | Cornell (Ivy) | 21,500 | 1915 |
| 17 | Louis Crews Stadium, Huntsville | Alabama A&M (SWAC) | 21,000 | 1996 |
| 18 | Bobcat Stadium, Bozeman | Montana State (Big Sky) | 20,767 | 1973 |
| 19 | Finley Stadium, Chattanooga | Chattanooga (SoCon) | 20,668 | 1997 |
| 20 | Shell Energy Stadium, Houston | Texas Southern (SWAC) | 20,656 | 2012 |
| 21 | Stambaugh Stadium, Youngstown | Youngstown State (MVFC) | 20,650 | 1982 |
| 22 | Brown Stadium, Providence | Brown (Ivy) | 20,000 | 1925 |
| 22 | Roy Kidd Stadium, Richmond, Ky. | Eastern Kentucky (UAC) | 20,000 | 1969 |
| 22 | SeatGeek Stadium, Bridgeview | Chicago State (Ind.) | 20,000 | 2006 |
| 25 | Bragg Memorial Stadium, Tallahassee | Florida A&M (SWAC) | 19,633 | 1957 |
Just outside the 25: Grambling’s Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium (19,600), South Dakota State’s Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium (19,340), McNeese’s Navarre Stadium (17,410), Weber State’s Stewart Stadium (17,000) and Columbia’s Wien Stadium (17,000).
Three Kinds of Big
Borrowed NFL and pro venues. Tennessee State plays at the Titans’ Nissan Stadium and will move into the new Nissan Stadium when it opens in 2027. Texas Southern plays at the Dynamo’s Shell Energy Stadium and Chicago State, in its first season of football, plays at the Fire’s old home in Bridgeview. Jackson State’s stadium is a state owned bowl that also hosted Ole Miss and Mississippi State for decades.
Ivy League bowls. The Yale Bowl (1914) and Franklin Field (1895) were the biggest stadiums in America when they opened and Franklin Field is the oldest stadium still in use for college football. They rarely come close to full, but Harvard vs. Yale still draws crowds no other FCS rivalry can match.
Stadiums that actually sell out. Washington-Grizzly in Missoula (25,200) and Bobcat Stadium in Bozeman (20,767) are the loudest places in the subdivision and regularly exceed capacity; Montana’s record crowd is 26,856. South Dakota State’s Dykhouse Stadium has topped its 19,340 capacity too. In the South, Florida A&M once packed 33,954 into a Bragg Memorial that seats under 20,000, and North Carolina A&T’s record is 34,769.
The Domes
Six FCS teams play indoors: North Dakota (Alerus Center, 12,283), South Dakota (DakotaDome, 10,000), Northern Iowa (UNI-Dome, 16,000), Idaho (Kibbie Dome, 16,000), Idaho State (ICCU Dome, 12,000) and Northern Arizona (Walkup Skydome, 15,300, at 7,000 feet in Flagstaff). North Dakota State’s Fargodome left the list when the Bison moved to the FBS this year.
The Bottom Line
By raw capacity the FCS is topped by an NFL stadium and two Ivy League relics, but the venues that matter most on a Saturday are the 20,000 to 25,000 seat bowls in Missoula, Bozeman, Brookings and Youngstown that fill up and host December playoff games. For the teams that play in each of these, see FCS teams by conference; for where the title game is played, our championship history; and for the home field rules that make these stadiums matter in December, how the FCS playoffs work.