Fairgrounds Stadium

About Fairgrounds Stadium

Fairgrounds Stadium is a former name of Cardinal Stadium, used 1956–1982. Cardinal Stadium was a College Football stadium in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened in 1956 and closed in 2019. Its last recorded capacity was 47,925. Its only tenant was Louisville Cardinals (College Football, 1956–1997). On our ranked lists it ranks 210th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

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• 210th shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 105th shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 80th shortest-lived of 110 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years

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.

Capacity by layout

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

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).
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, football layout, Capacity, baseball layout.