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Hancock Whitney Stadium

Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, AL, home of South Alabama. Capacity 25,450. Opened September 12, 2020.

Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, AL
Hancock Whitney Stadium, Mobile, ALPhoto: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
25,450
Opened
2020
Surface
FieldTurf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
148 ft
Home team
South Alabama
South Alabama here
23–⁠16 games on file since 2020

Biggest games here

From the games on file here, 2020 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 Hancock Whitney Stadium by season, 2020 to 202610k20k30k2020: 6,242 a game over 7 games; biggest 11,0002021: 15,955 a game over 7 games; biggest 20,1562022: 15,823 a game over 6 games; biggest 20,5122023: 17,724 a game over 7 games; biggest 23,4782024: 18,762 a game over 6 games; biggest 25,4502025: 17,267 a game over 7 games; biggest 19,6342026: 14,373 a game over 3 games; biggest 15,232’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Biggest crowds on file

25,450Troy at South Alabama2024
23,478Southern Miss at South Alabama2023
20,926South Alabama at Eastern Michigan2023
20,512Rice at Southern Miss2022
20,156Southern Miss at South Alabama2021

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

Kickoffs: the NOAA report nearest kickoff from the closest weather station (NOAA NCEI Integrated Surface Database).

The stadium’s history

Opened
September 12, 2020
Surface over the years
FieldTurf
Record crowd
25,450 (twice)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Hancock Whitney Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 140 by 190 meters (450 by 640 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 3, 2026South Alabama 52, UL Monroe 35
Sep 19, 2026South Alabama 41, Ohio 36
Sep 5, 2026South Alabama 39, SE Louisiana 14
Dec 17, 2025Delaware 20, Louisiana 13
Nov 22, 2025South Alabama 42, Southern Miss 35
Nov 1, 2025Louisiana 31, South Alabama 22
Oct 14, 2025Arkansas State 15, South Alabama 14
Sep 20, 2025Coastal Carolina 38, South Alabama 20
Sep 6, 2025Tulane 33, South Alabama 31
Aug 30, 2025South Alabama 38, Morgan State 21
Dec 26, 2024Arkansas State 38, Bowling Green 31
Nov 29, 2024Texas State 45, South Alabama 38

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

Coca-Cola has the stadium’s soft-drink pouring rights, on record since 2025. Official source.