Florida Field

About Florida Field

Florida Field is a former name of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, used 1930–1988. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium is a College Football stadium in Gainesville, Florida. It opened in 1930. It was designed by Rudolph Weaver. It seats 88,548. Its current tenant is Florida Gators (College Football), since 1930. By capacity it ranks 11th of 241 current College Football venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 54th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use and 46th longest single tenancy (96 years) of the 100 longest on record.

Appears in

• 54th oldest of 354 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 46th longest single tenancy (96 years) of the 100 longest on record
• 52nd oldest of 267 football stadiums still in use
• 44th longest single tenancy (96 years) of the 100 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.

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 16 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.