By Capacity
Canada's largest stadiums, ranked in descending order of permanent seating capacity:
Rank | Stadium | City | Seated Capacity |
Surface | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Olympic Stadium | Montreal | 66,308 | FieldTurf | Kevlar roof |
2 | Commonwealth Stadium | Edmonton | 60,081 | FieldTurf | 400m Athletics track |
3 | BC Place | Vancouver | 54,320 | FieldTurf | Retractable roof |
4 | Rogers Centre | Toronto | 53,506 | AstroTurf | Retractable roof |
5 | McMahon Stadium | Calgary | 35,560 | FieldTurf | |
6 | Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field | Regina | 33,427 | FieldTurf | |
7 | Ivor Wynne Stadium | Hamilton | 30,000 | AstroPlay | To be demolished in 2013 |
8 | Canad Inns Stadium | Winnipeg | 29,553 | AstroPlay | To be decommissioned in 2012 |
9 | Frank Clair Stadium | Ottawa | 26,559 | FieldTurf | Closed for renovations |
10 | Percival Molson Memorial Stadium | Montreal | 25,202 | FieldTurf | 400m Athletics track |
11 | BMO Field | Toronto | 21,859 | Natural grass | |
12 | Saputo Stadium | Montreal | 20,341 | Natural grass | |
13 | Scotiabank Place | Ottawa | 19,153 | Multi-surface | Ottawa Senators |
14 | PEPS Le Stade Extérieur | Quebec City | 12,257 | FieldTurf | 400m Athletics track, expandable to 18,500 |
15 | Uniprix Stadium | Montreal | 11,437 | DecoTurf | |
16 | Ottawa Baseball Stadium | Ottawa | 10,332 | Natural grass | |
17 | Richardson Memorial Stadium | Kingston | 10,258 | Natural grass | 400m Athletics track |
18 | King George V Park | St. John's | 10,000 | FieldTurf | |
18 | Moncton Stadium | Moncton | 10,000 | Natural grass | 400m Athletics track, expandable to 20,000 |
20 | Telus Field | Edmonton | 9,055 | FieldTurf/natural grass |
Future stadiums include the following:
Stadium | City | Seated Capacity |
Surface | Completion | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Investors Group Field | Winnipeg | 33,422 | Artificial | 2012 | Replaces Canad Inns Stadium |
Read more about this topic: List Of Stadiums In Canada
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