Busch Stadium

About Busch Stadium

Busch Stadium was an MLB and NFL stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri. It opened in 1966 and closed in 2005. It was designed by Sverdrup & Parcel. Its last recorded capacity was 49,676. Tenants included St. Louis Cardinals (MLB, 1966–2005) and St. Louis Cardinals (NFL, 1966–1987). On our ranked lists it ranks 139th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as Busch Memorial Stadium (1966–1981).

Appears in

• 139th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 60th shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 24th shortest-lived of 55 NFL stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 51st longest single tenancy (21 years) of the 101 longest on record in NFL stadiums
• 55th shortest-lived of 83 MLB stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 22nd longest single tenancy (39 years) of the 100 longest on record in MLB stadiums

Venue Information

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.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

The site today

• Busch Stadium (opened 2006) now stands on or beside the site.
• The site is now occupied by Ballpark Village.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

Later venues are matched by the recorded coordinates in our own venue records.

Teams

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.

A season split between two home venues counts in full at each.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats: What stands on the site today.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, football layout, Capacity, baseball layout.