Cajun Field

Opened in 1971

About Cajun Field

Cajun Field is a College Football stadium in Lafayette, Louisiana. It opened in 1971. It seats 31,000. Its current tenant is Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns (College Football), since 1971. By capacity it ranks 95th of 241 current College Football venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 148th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use.

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Photo of Cajun Field — Photo by Jcarriere. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Venue Information

Capacity

31,000

Source: Wikidata

#95 in College Football of 241

Year Opened

1971

#140 oldest in College Football of 242

Location

Lafayette, Louisiana 70598

Elevation

11 ft

4 m above sea level

#11 lowest in College Football of 242

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.

Teams

Home seasons at Cajun Field by team, 1971–2026. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns While based here: 56 seasons · 286-312-5 regular season in the 53 seasons with results on record · 13 postseason trips · 2026 in progress College Football · 1971–present Southwestern Louisiana (1971–1998) Louisiana-Lafayette (1999–2016) Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns (2017–2026) Sun Belt 2001–2026 · Independent 1996–2000 · Big West Conference 1993–1995 · 2 earlier conferences · FBS (Division I-A) Territory map on ImperialismMap McNaspy Stadium 1902–1970 Cajun Field 1971–present	College Football	1971–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.

Game results are on record only for top-division college football seasons; other seasons count toward seasons here but not toward the record.