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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carleton | No Football | -- | Raven's Nest | 1500 | Ice House | 500 | Keith Harris Stadium | 2500 |
| Ottawa | Frank Clair Stadium | 26,559 | Montpetit Hall | 1000 | Sports Complex Arena | 850 | Sports Complex Field-W | 750 |
| Toronto | Varsity Centre | 5000 | Sports Gym | 800 | Varsity Arena | 4100 | Varsity Centre | 5000 |
| Ryerson | No Football | -- | Mattamy Athletic Centre | 1000 | Mattamy Home Ice | 2800 | Lamport Stadium | 9600 |
| Queen's | Richardson Memorial Stadium | 10,258* | Bartlett Gymnasium | 1785 | Kingston Memorial Centre | -- | yes | |
| York | York Stadium | 2500 | Tait McKenzie Centre | 1,200 | Canlan Ice Sports-York | 1700 | York Stadium | 2500 |
| Laurentian | No Football | -- | Ben F. Avery Gymnasium | 1200 | No Hockey | -- | Laurentian University Soccer Field | 500 |
| RMC | No Football | -- | No Basketball | -- | Constantaine Arena | 1500 | Navy Bay Soccer and Rugby Fields | 2500 |
| Trent | No Football | -- | No Basketball | -- | No Hockey | -- | Trent University Main Playing Field | 1000 |
| Nipissing | No Football | -- | No Basketball | -- | Memorial Gardens | 4025 | Nipissing University soccer pitch | 200 |
| UOIT | No Football | -- | No Basketball | -- | UOIT Campus Ice Centre | 800 | No Soccer | |
| Western | TD Waterhouse Stadium | 8000 | Alumni Hall | 2400 | Thompson Arena | 3615 | yes | |
| Windsor | University of Windsor Stadium | 2000 | St. Denis Centre | 2500 | Windsor Arena-M South Windsor Arena-W |
4600 1000 |
yes | |
| McMaster | Ronald V. Joyce Stadium | 6000 | Burridge Gymnasium | 2800 | No Hockey | -- | yes | |
| Guelph | Alumni Stadium | 5100 | W.F. Mitchell Athletics Centre | 2200 | Gryphon Centre Arena | 1400 | yes | |
| Waterloo | Warrior Field | 1100* | Physical Activities Complex | 4500 | Columbia Ice Field | 1000 | yes | |
| Laurier | University Stadium | 6500 | Athletic Complex | 2500 | Waterloo Recreation Complex | 3400 | Wilfrid Laurier Alumni Field | |
| Brock | No Football | -- | Bob Davis Gymnasium | 2400 | Seymour-Hannah Sports & Entertainment Centre | 1400 | yes | |
| Lakehead | No Football | -- | C.J. Sanders Fieldhouse | 2000 | Fort William Gardens | 3710 | No Soccer | |
Queen's has plans to relocate Richardson Stadium and reduce the permanent seating to 8000.
The city of Ottawa is currently negotiating with Jeff Hunt on refurbishing Frank Clair Stadium.
(*Waterloo's new Warrior Field is often listed with a capacity of 5000, but that includes viewers standing and sitting on the grass. The seated capacity is 1100.)
(Data mined from the CIS homepage's member directory and WorldStadiums.com. The members directory numbers seem to be ballpark figures in some cases.)
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