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Protective Stadium

Protective Stadium in Birmingham, AL, home of UAB. Capacity 45,000. Opened October 2, 2021.

Protective Stadium in Birmingham, AL
Protective Stadium, Birmingham, ALPhoto: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
45,000
Opened
2021
Surface
Artificial turf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
614 ft
Home team
UAB
UAB here
21–⁠9 games on file since 2021

Biggest games here

From the games on file here, 2021 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 Protective Stadium by season, 2021 to 202610k20k30k40k50k2021: 29,348 a game over 3 games; biggest 47,1002022: 23,058 a game over 6 games; biggest 32,5422023: 21,326 a game over 7 games; biggest 25,3632024: 21,263 a game over 7 games; biggest 33,8402025: 18,614 a game over 7 games; biggest 26,2942026: 21,640 a game over 2 games; biggest 22,126’21’22’23’24’25’26

Biggest crowds on file

47,100Houston at Auburn2021
33,840Georgia Tech at Vanderbilt2024
32,542Alabama A&M at UAB2022
26,294Alabama State at UAB2025
25,363North Carolina A&T at UAB2023

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
October 2, 2021
Architect
Populous
Goodwyn Mills Cawood

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Protective Stadium.

Recent games here

Oct 15, 2026UAB 30, East Carolina 17
Oct 3, 2026UAB 33, Samford 14
Sep 25, 2026UAB 24, Navy 20
Sep 12, 2026UAB 26, UL Monroe 20
Dec 29, 2025Georgia Southern 29, App State 10
Nov 22, 2025South Florida 48, UAB 18
Nov 15, 2025North Texas 53, UAB 24
Oct 18, 2025UAB 31, 22Memphis 24
Oct 4, 2025Army 31, UAB 13
Sep 13, 2025UAB 31, Akron 28
Aug 28, 2025UAB 52, Alabama State 42
Dec 27, 2024Vanderbilt 35, Georgia Tech 27

Around the stadium

Playing surface
Shaw Sports Turf · Single source
Beer sales
Sold to all fans · 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 2021. Independently corroborated.