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Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium

Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, MD, home of Navy. Capacity 34,000. Opened September 26, 1959.

Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, MD
Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, MDPhoto: Damon J. Moritz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
34,000
Opened
1959
Surface
FieldTurf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
35 ft
Home team
Navy
Navy here
95–⁠45 games on file since 2001

Since it opened: Navy is 190–⁠118–⁠1 in home games from the 1959 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 Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium by season, 2001 to 202620k40k60k80k2001: 30,307 a game over 4 games; biggest 31,4562002: 27,808 a game over 5 games; biggest 31,6472003: 29,936 a game over 5 games; biggest 34,9822004: 36,604 a game over 8 games; biggest 76,1662005: 33,013 a game over 5 games; biggest 35,6702006: 33,275 a game over 5 games; biggest 36,9182007: 34,617 a game over 6 games; biggest 37,6152008: 34,775 a game over 5 games; biggest 37,9702009: 31,912 a game over 6 games; biggest 37,8202010: 32,653 a game over 5 games; biggest 34,3332011: 34,611 a game over 5 games; biggest 37,5062012: 32,363 a game over 5 games; biggest 35,6712013: 34,684 a game over 6 games; biggest 38,2252014: 32,798 a game over 6 games; biggest 34,2772015: 32,338 a game over 7 games; biggest 36,3522016: 30,869 a game over 7 games; biggest 36,3972017: 34,950 a game over 6 games; biggest 38,7922018: 31,692 a game over 6 games; biggest 33,9242019: 30,866 a game over 7 games; biggest 37,9572020: 4,000 a game over 2 games; biggest 4,4002021: 31,095 a game over 6 games; biggest 36,9972022: 28,807 a game over 6 games; biggest 32,4432023: 31,523 a game over 7 games; biggest 38,8032024: 31,152 a game over 6 games; biggest 38,9142025: 29,825 a game over 7 games; biggest 37,5172026: 31,809 a game over 2 games; biggest 32,654200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

76,166Notre Dame at Navy2004
38,914Tulane at Navy2024
38,803Air Force at Navy2023
38,792Air Force at Navy2017
38,225Air Force at Navy2013

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

The stadium’s history

Opened
September 26, 1959
Architect
360 Architecture
Surface over the years
FieldTurf (2005–present)
Natural grass (1959–⁠2004)
Renovated
2004
Record crowd
38,803 (vs. Air Force
October 21, 2023)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

From above

100 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 270 by 270 meters (880 by 880 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Statues

Statues: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons: statues placed at the stadium or within a few hundred meters of it. Names link to their pages here; each statue links to its record there.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 2026Navy 34, Tulsa 26
Sep 5, 2026Navy 42, Towson 15
Dec 27, 2025East Carolina 23, Pittsburgh 17
Nov 15, 2025Navy 41, 25South Florida 38
Oct 25, 2025Navy 42, Florida Atlantic 32
Oct 4, 2025Navy 34, Air Force 31
Sep 27, 2025Navy 21, Rice 13
Sep 6, 2025Navy 38, UAB 24
Aug 30, 2025Navy 52, VMI 7
Dec 28, 2024East Carolina 26, NC State 21
Nov 16, 202425Tulane 35, Navy 0
Oct 19, 202425Navy 51, Charlotte 17

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.