Memorial Stadium

About Memorial Stadium

Memorial Stadium is a former name of Gies Memorial Stadium, used 1923–2024. Gies Memorial Stadium is a College Football stadium in Champaign, Illinois. It opened in 1923. It was designed by Holabird & Root. It seats 55,524. Its current tenant is Illinois Fighting Illini (College Football), since 1923. By capacity it ranks 50th of 256 current College Football venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 23rd oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use and 21st longest single tenancy (103 years) of the 102 longest on record.

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• 23rd oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 21st longest single tenancy (103 years) of the 102 longest on record
• 21st oldest of 281 football stadiums still in use
• 19th longest single tenancy (103 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.

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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 (CC BY-SA): Photograph.