Facilities
Canadian athletic facilities are often listed by their "maximum capacity", which is often an estimate of their largest recorded crowd in the facility. These maximum capacities can and often do include standing room patrons and attendees seated on grass surrounding a playing field. Seated Capacity is the actual number of permanent seats, be they grandstands or permanently in use bleachers. This is why you will sometimes see larger capacities listed for these sites when searching for them on line. When capacity numbers have mismatched on source sites, unless the larger capacity could be confirmed as a seated capacity, the smaller capacity number has been listed here.
Please update with verified "seated capacities" only when the institutions release more accurate official seated capacities.
| Facilities | ||||||||
| Institution | Football Stadium |
Seated Capacity |
Basketball Arena |
Seated Capacity |
Hockey Arena |
Seated Capacity |
Soccer Stadium |
Seated Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alberta | Foote Field | 3,500 | GO Centre | 2600 | Clare Drake Arena | 3,000 | Foote Soccer Field | 1,500 |
| Brandon | No Football | -- | Brandon University Gym | 1,000 | No Hockey | -- | No Soccer | -- |
| UBC | Thunderbird Stadium | 3,500 | War Memorial Gymnasium | 2,222 | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 7,200 | Thunderbird Stadium | 3,500 |
| UBCO | No Football | -- | UBC Okanagan Campus Gym | 1,000 | No Hockey | -- | No Soccer | -- |
| Calgary | McMahon Stadium | 35,650 | Jack Simpson Gymnasium | 2,700 | Father David Bauer Olympic Arena | 1,750 | West Varsity Soccer Pitch | 500 |
| Fraser Valley | No Football | -- | Envision Athletic Centre | 1,700 | No Hockey | -- | Exhibition Field, Chilliwack | 2,000 |
| Lethbridge | No Football | -- | 1st Choice Savings Centre | 2,500 | Nicholas Sheran Arena | 1,100 | University Field | 2,000 |
| Manitoba | University Stadium | 5,000 | Investors Group Athletic Centre | 3,100 | Max Bell Centre | 1,400 | Turf East Field | |
| Mount Royal | No Football | -- | Kenyon Court | Flames Community Arenas | 500 | Mount Royal Fields | ||
| UNBC | No Football | -- | Charles Jago Northern Sports Centre | 2,000 | No Hockey | -- | NCSSL Field | |
| Regina | Mosaic Stadium | 28,800 | UR CKHS | 2,000 | The Co-operators Centre | 1,000 | Rams/Cougars Field (Women's only) | No permanent seating |
| Saskatchewan | Griffiths Stadium | 6,171 | PAC | 2,426 | Rutherford Arena | 700 | Field 7 in PotashCorp Park (Men's)/Griffiths Stadium (Women's) | 400/6,171 |
| Thompson Rivers | No Football | -- | Tournament Capital Centre | 2,200 | No Hockey | -- | Hillside Stadium | 1,060 |
| Trinity Western | No Football | -- | Langley Event Centre | 2,000 | Langley Events Centre | 5,300 | Rogers Park | 500 |
| Victoria | No Football | -- | McKinnon Gym | 2,500 | No Hockey | -- | Centennial Stadium | 5,000 |
| Winnipeg | No Football | -- | Duckworth Centre | 1,780 | No Hockey | -- | Winnipeg Soccer Complex / St. Vital | 2000 / 500 |
Thompson Rivers University only plays basketball and volleyball at the CIS level. Soccer, badminton, and men's baseball are also played, but currently not at the CIS level.
The new football stadium for both the University of Manitoba and the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers, now officially named Investors Group Field, was scheduled to be completed for the 2012 football season, but will now be ready for the 2013 season. The 33,000-seat stadium (expandable to 40,000) is at the intersection of University Crescent and Chancellor Matheson Road at the University of Manitoba Fort Garry Campus, beside University Stadium.
Trinity Western University added Canada West teams in swimming, cross country and track & field for the 2010-11 season. Winnipeg has added wrestling for the 2011-12 season. Winnipeg also added baseball (men's) and soccer (men's and women's) but are currently not at the CIS level.
(Data mined from the CIS homepage's member directory and WorldStadiums.com. The member directory numbers seem to be ballpark figures in some cases.)
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