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Memorial Stadium

Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, KS, home of Kansas. Capacity 47,000. Opened 1921.

Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, KS
Memorial Stadium, Lawrence, KSPhoto: Kuwxman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
47,000
Opened
1921
Surface
Artificial turf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
902 ft
Home team
Kansas
Kansas here
73–⁠83 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
once

Since it opened: Kansas is 275–⁠271–⁠16 in home games from the 1921 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 Memorial Stadium by season, 2001 to 202620k30k40k50k60k2001: 39,658 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,7502002: 36,083 a game over 6 games; biggest 43,0002003: 38,750 a game over 7 games; biggest 50,1072004: 41,067 a game over 6 games; biggest 50,1522005: 43,675 a game over 6 games; biggest 51,7502006: 44,137 a game over 7 games; biggest 51,8212007: 46,784 a game over 7 games; biggest 51,9102008: 50,907 a game over 7 games; biggest 52,2302009: 50,581 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,5302010: 44,851 a game over 7 games; biggest 48,4172011: 42,283 a game over 6 games; biggest 48,0842012: 41,329 a game over 6 games; biggest 46,6012013: 36,455 a game over 7 games; biggest 43,6102014: 34,077 a game over 6 games; biggest 36,9042015: 27,282 a game over 7 games; biggest 37,7982016: 25,828 a game over 6 games; biggest 28,4672017: 26,641 a game over 7 games; biggest 36,2232018: 19,424 a game over 6 games; biggest 28,0442019: 33,875 a game over 7 games; biggest 47,2332020: 9,566 a game over 2 games; biggest 9,6522021: 25,746 a game over 6 games; biggest 30,6112022: 43,076 a game over 6 games; biggest 47,2332023: 45,991 a game over 7 games; biggest 47,2332025: 39,478 a game over 7 games; biggest 41,5252026: 32,000 a game over 1 games; biggest 32,000200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

52,530Northern Colorado at Kansas2009
52,230Kansas State at Kansas2008
52,112Florida International at Kansas2008
51,930Texas at Kansas2008
51,910Nebraska at Kansas2007

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.

The pregame shows here

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from Memorial Stadium once, first in 2022; Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff once.

Oct 28, 2023Big Noon KickoffKansas 38, Oklahoma 33
Oct 8, 2022College GameDayTCU 38, Kansas 31The Hill

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of College GameDay locations (CC BY-SA). Big Noon Kickoff’s from Wikipedia’s list of its sites (CC BY-SA).

Weather on game day

Coldest kickoffs

Hottest kickoffs

Coldest game days before 2004

Hottest game days before 2004

Snow on game day

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

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 210 by 280 meters (680 by 910 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 3, 2026Kansas 55, Middle Tennessee 0
Sep 11, 202623Missouri 38, Kansas 21
Sep 4, 2026Kansas 51, Long Island University 6
Nov 28, 202514Utah 31, Kansas 21
Nov 1, 2025Kansas 38, Oklahoma State 21
Oct 25, 2025Kansas State 42, Kansas 17
Sep 27, 2025Cincinnati 37, Kansas 34
Sep 20, 2025Kansas 41, West Virginia 10
Aug 29, 2025Kansas 46, Wagner 7
Aug 23, 2025Kansas 31, Fresno State 7
Nov 18, 202323Kansas State 31, Kansas 27
Nov 11, 2023Texas Tech 16, 19Kansas 13

Around the stadium

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 2025. Official source.