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CEFCU Stadium

CEFCU Stadium in San Jose, CA, home of San José State. Capacity 30,456. Opened 1933.

CEFCU Stadium in San Jose, CA
CEFCU Stadium, San Jose, CAPhoto: Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
30,456
Opened
1933
Surface
AstroTurf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
93 ft
San José State here
78–⁠64 games on file since 2001

Since it opened: San José State is 217–⁠155–⁠11 in home games from the 1936 season on. Our source names a game’s stadium only from 2001, so that count takes every earlier home game not marked neutral and may include a few played elsewhere.

Biggest games here

From the games on file here, 2001 on: title and postseason games, meetings of two ranked teams, upsets by our pregame Elo ratings and the biggest swings in CollegeFootballData.com’s excitement index.

Crowds season by season

Average and biggest crowd at CEFCU Stadium by season, 2001 to 20260k10k20k30k40k2001: 14,257 a game over 5 games; biggest 30,4562002: 10,314 a game over 5 games; biggest 14,1342003: 15,080 a game over 5 games; biggest 31,6812004: 8,975 a game over 6 games; biggest 21,4562005: 12,506 a game over 5 games; biggest 18,1292006: 18,854 a game over 7 games; biggest 29,3212007: 15,465 a game over 5 games; biggest 20,4732008: 20,952 a game over 6 games; biggest 26,2582009: 15,344 a game over 6 games; biggest 23,6842010: 14,474 a game over 6 games; biggest 20,2392011: 18,214 a game over 5 games; biggest 25,1142012: 10,789 a game over 6 games; biggest 15,4942013: 16,362 a game over 6 games; biggest 23,5742014: 15,068 a game over 5 games; biggest 17,9622015: 15,312 a game over 6 games; biggest 17,2642016: 15,419 a game over 6 games; biggest 16,8372017: 14,206 a game over 6 games; biggest 18,4832018: 14,255 a game over 5 games; biggest 16,3632019: 15,396 a game over 6 games; biggest 19,1842021: 15,447 a game over 6 games; biggest 17,1772022: 16,422 a game over 6 games; biggest 17,1172023: 16,804 a game over 6 games; biggest 20,3372024: 16,058 a game over 7 games; biggest 20,5172025: 13,997 a game over 6 games; biggest 16,0122026: 16,637 a game over 2 games; biggest 18,256200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

31,681Grambling at San José State2003
30,456Michigan State at Fresno State2001
29,321Stanford at San José State2006
26,258Boise State at San José State2008
25,114Navy at San José State2011

Bars are each season’s average crowd, dots its biggest (the record in orange), the dashed rule today’s capacity. Attendance is on file for most games from 2001 on.

Weather on game day

Coldest kickoffs

Hottest kickoffs

Coldest game days before 2004

Hottest game days before 2004

Kickoffs: the NOAA report nearest kickoff from the closest weather station (NOAA NCEI Integrated Surface Database). Game days: the day’s high and snowfall at the NOAA station nearest the stadium, for San José State’s home games before 2004 (NOAA GHCN-Daily, public domain).

The stadium’s history

Former names
Spartan Stadium (1933–⁠2015)
Opened
1933
Surface over the years
AstroTurf (2017–present)
FieldTurf (2009–⁠2017)
Expanded
1936–⁠1937, 1948, 1985

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, CEFCU Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 180 by 180 meters (580 by 580 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 9, 2026Wyoming 16, San José State 13
Sep 19, 2026Fresno State 26, San José State 10
Sep 12, 2026San José State 30, Cal Poly 20
Nov 29, 2025Fresno State 41, San José State 14
Nov 8, 2025Air Force 26, San José State 16
Nov 1, 2025San José State 45, Hawai’i 38
Oct 3, 2025San José State 35, New Mexico 28
Sep 20, 2025San José State 31, Idaho 28
Aug 29, 2025Central Michigan 16, San José State 14
Nov 29, 2024San José State 34, Stanford 31
Nov 22, 202423UNLV 27, San José State 16
Nov 16, 202413Boise State 42, San José State 21

Around the stadium

Playing surface
AstroTurf · Single source

Found by several AI researchers searching the web, then kept only where the page loads and says so in words naming the program; every quote is checked again each time the data is rebuilt. Official source: the school’s own page. All of them.

Pouring rights

PepsiCo has the stadium’s soft-drink pouring rights. Official source.