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Scott Stadium

Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, VA, home of Virginia. Capacity 61,500. Opened October 15, 1931.

Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, VA
Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, VAPhoto: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
61,500
Opened
1931
Surface
Grass
Roof
Open air
Elevation
559 ft
Home team
Virginia
Virginia here
103–⁠65 games on file since 2001

Since it opened: Virginia is 310–⁠220–⁠13 in home games from the 1931 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 Scott Stadium by season, 2001 to 202620k40k60k80k2001: 55,433 a game over 6 games; biggest 61,6252002: 56,428 a game over 7 games; biggest 60,1712003: 60,424 a game over 6 games; biggest 62,8752004: 61,494 a game over 6 games; biggest 63,7012005: 60,973 a game over 6 games; biggest 63,3442006: 57,732 a game over 6 games; biggest 60,4292007: 59,824 a game over 6 games; biggest 61,7112008: 53,815 a game over 7 games; biggest 64,9472009: 47,986 a game over 7 games; biggest 58,5552010: 45,430 a game over 7 games; biggest 54,1462011: 47,940 a game over 7 games; biggest 61,1242012: 46,650 a game over 7 games; biggest 56,0872013: 46,279 a game over 8 games; biggest 58,5022014: 39,320 a game over 7 games; biggest 45,2002015: 43,285 a game over 7 games; biggest 58,2002016: 39,929 a game over 6 games; biggest 49,2702017: 39,398 a game over 7 games; biggest 48,6092018: 39,705 a game over 6 games; biggest 43,1282019: 47,863 a game over 7 games; biggest 57,8262020: 1,000 a game over 4 games; biggest 1,0002021: 42,439 a game over 7 games; biggest 48,5842022: 40,681 a game over 6 games; biggest 44,1562023: 43,293 a game over 6 games; biggest 56,5082024: 38,999 a game over 6 games; biggest 44,5502025: 48,776 a game over 7 games; biggest 58,8322026: 48,125 a game over 3 games; biggest 62,779200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

64,947USC at Virginia2008
63,701Miami at Virginia2004
63,344Virginia Tech at Virginia2005
63,106Florida State at Virginia2005
63,072Maryland at Virginia2004

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

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

The stadium’s history

Opened
October 15, 1931
Architect
Edmund S. Campbell
Heery International, Inc. (expansion)
Surface over the years
Grass (1931–⁠1973, 1995–Present)
Astroturf (1974–⁠1994)
Expanded
1974, 1980, 1999–⁠2000
Record crowd
64,947 (August 30, 2008)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Scott Stadium.

From above

100 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 270 by 280 meters (890 by 930 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 2026Virginia 28, Syracuse 25
Sep 26, 2026Virginia 42, Delaware 3
Sep 11, 202625Virginia 59, Norfolk State 3
Aug 29, 2026Virginia 34, NC State 8
Nov 29, 202517Virginia 27, Virginia Tech 7
Nov 8, 2025Wake Forest 16, 12Virginia 9
Oct 18, 202518Virginia 22, Washington State 20
Sep 26, 2025Virginia 46, 8Florida State 38
Sep 20, 2025Virginia 48, Stanford 20
Sep 13, 2025Virginia 55, William & Mary 16
Aug 30, 2025Virginia 48, Coastal Carolina 7
Nov 23, 202413SMU 33, Virginia 7

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 2025. Single source.