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Valley Children’s Stadium

Opened in 1980

About Valley Children’s Stadium

Valley Children’s Stadium is a College Football stadium in Fresno, California. It opened in 1980. It seats 41,031. Its current tenant is Fresno State Bulldogs (College Football), since 1980. By capacity it ranks 75th of 241 current College Football venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 174th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use. It has also been known as Bulldog Stadium (1980–2021).

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Photo of Valley Children’s Stadium — Photo by Emedina00. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Venue Information

Capacity

41,031

Source: Wikidata

#75 in College Football of 241

Year Opened

1980

#162 oldest in College Football of 242

Location

Fresno, California 93710

Elevation

337 ft

103 m above sea level

#89 lowest in College Football of 242

Operator

California State University, Fresno

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Teams

Home seasons at Valley Children’s Stadium by team, 1980–2026. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Fresno State Bulldogs While based here: 47 seasons · 333-210-3 regular season · 28 postseason trips · 2026 in progress College Football · 1980–present PAC-12 2026 · Mountain West 2012–2025 · Western Athletic Conference 1992–2011 · 2 earlier conferences · FBS (Division I-A) Territory map on ImperialismMap Ratcliffe Stadium 1926–1979 Valley Children’s Stadium 1980–present	College Football	1980–present

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.