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Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium

Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, NC, home of East Carolina. Capacity 50,000. Opened September 21, 1963.

Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, NC
Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, Greenville, NCPhoto: Airman 1st Class Rae Perry, USAF, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
50,000
Opened
1963
Surface
Tifton 419 Hybrid Bermuda
Roof
Open air
Elevation
63 ft
Home team
East Carolina
East Carolina here
83–⁠66 games on file since 2001

Since it opened: East Carolina is 201–⁠124–⁠1 in home games from the 1963 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 Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium by season, 2001 to 202620k30k40k50k60k2001: 36,719 a game over 4 games; biggest 40,1792002: 29,629 a game over 5 games; biggest 38,1112003: 33,012 a game over 6 games; biggest 44,0402004: 31,663 a game over 6 games; biggest 41,2442005: 33,046 a game over 5 games; biggest 35,5102006: 35,501 a game over 6 games; biggest 41,3722007: 41,537 a game over 6 games; biggest 43,5272008: 42,016 a game over 5 games; biggest 43,6412009: 41,742 a game over 7 games; biggest 43,5692010: 49,665 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,4102011: 50,012 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,6102012: 47,013 a game over 6 games; biggest 49,0232013: 43,985 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,0962014: 44,786 a game over 6 games; biggest 51,0822015: 43,274 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,5142016: 44,113 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,7192017: 36,727 a game over 7 games; biggest 43,7762018: 32,908 a game over 7 games; biggest 39,2982019: 33,135 a game over 6 games; biggest 38,0942020: 3,500 a game over 3 games; biggest 3,5002021: 36,059 a game over 6 games; biggest 40,8162022: 41,372 a game over 7 games; biggest 51,7112023: 35,903 a game over 6 games; biggest 40,5892024: 37,403 a game over 6 games; biggest 46,1172025: 37,097 a game over 6 games; biggest 47,2132026: 39,271 a game over 3 games; biggest 43,772200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

51,711NC State at East Carolina2022
51,082North Carolina at East Carolina2014
50,719NC State at East Carolina2016
50,610North Carolina at East Carolina2011
50,514Virginia Tech at East Carolina2015

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 East Carolina’s home games before 2004 (NOAA GHCN-Daily, public domain).

The stadium’s history

Former names
Ficklen Memorial Stadium (1963–⁠1994)
Opened
September 21, 1963
Architect
Dudley & Shoe
Walter, Robbs, Callahan & Pierce, 1996-1998 expansion
Corley, Redfoot, Zack, Inc.,(now CRA Associates, Inc.), 2010 expansion
LS3P Associates, Ltd., 2019 expansion
Surface over the years
Tifton 419 Hybrid Bermuda
Expanded
1967–⁠1968 - increased seating capacity to 20,000
1977–⁠1978 - increased seating capacity to 35,000
1996–⁠1998 - increased seating capacity to 43,000
2010 - increased seating capacity to 50,000
2019 - increased seating capacity to 51,000
Renovated
1991 - $1.6 million in repairs and renovations, 2002, 2009-2010, 2018-2019 ($60MM)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 240 by 240 meters (770 by 770 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 2026East Carolina 28, Rice 12
Sep 26, 2026East Carolina 42, North Carolina Central 9
Sep 12, 2026App State 27, East Carolina 24
Nov 15, 2025East Carolina 31, Memphis 27
Nov 8, 2025East Carolina 48, Charlotte 22
Oct 16, 2025East Carolina 41, Tulsa 27
Sep 25, 2025East Carolina 28, Army 6
Sep 20, 2025BYU 34, East Carolina 13
Sep 6, 2025East Carolina 56, Campbell 3
Nov 29, 2024Navy 34, East Carolina 20
Nov 7, 2024East Carolina 49, Florida Atlantic 14
Oct 26, 2024East Carolina 56, Temple 34

Around the stadium

Playing surface
Natural grass · Official source
Beer sales
Sold to all fans · Official 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, on record since 2020. Single source.