Drake Stadium

About Drake Stadium

Drake Stadium is a College Football stadium in Des Moines, Iowa. It opened in 1925. It seats 14,557. Its current tenant is Drake Bulldogs (College Football), since 1925. By capacity it ranks 179th of 256 current College Football venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 38th oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use and 31st longest single tenancy (101 years) of the 102 longest on record.

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• 38th oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 31st longest single tenancy (101 years) of the 102 longest on record
• 36th oldest of 281 football stadiums still in use
• 29th longest single tenancy (101 years) of the 101 longest on record in football 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.

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.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

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

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• 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 (Public domain): Photograph.