About Brown Stadium
Brown Stadium is a College Football stadium in Providence, Rhode Island. It opened in 1925. It seats 20,000. Its current tenant is Brown Bears (College Football), since 1925. By capacity it ranks 154th 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. It has also been known as Brown University Field.
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Venue Information
Location
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
| Team | League | Years |
|---|---|---|
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Brown Bears While based here: 83 seasons · 232-264-18 regular season in the 57 seasons with results on record · no postseason trips
College Football · 1925–present
Ivy Group 1956–2026 · Independent 1925–1955 · FCS (Division I-AA)
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College Football | 1925–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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the capacity of Brown Stadium?
The capacity of Brown Stadium is 20,000.
When was Brown Stadium built?
Brown Stadium opened in 1925.
Who plays at Brown Stadium?
Brown Stadium is the home venue of Brown Bears.
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 4 m of this point).
- Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
Historical Names
Brown Stadium
Unknown - Present
CurrentBrown University Field
Unknown - Present
Location
Nearby Venues
| Venue | Years | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island Auditorium | 1926–1989 | 0.7 mi |
| Cycledrome | 1925–1937 | 1.1 mi |
| Messer Street Grounds | 1878–1886 | 2.9 mi |
| Beirne Stadium | 1999– | 9.3 mi |
| Foxboro Stadium | 1971–2002 | 18 mi |
| Gillette Stadium | 2002– | 18 mi |
Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.
References
Teams on Wikipedia
Every source for the facts on this page is listed under Sources.