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Wallace Wade Stadium

Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, NC, home of Duke. Capacity 40,004. Opened 1929.

Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, NC
Wallace Wade Stadium, Durham, NCPhoto: User:B, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
40,004
Opened
1929
Surface
Latitude 36 Bermuda Grass
Roof
Open air
Elevation
338 ft
Home team
Duke
Duke here
72–⁠90 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
once

Since it opened: Duke is 275–⁠219–⁠11 in home games from the 1929 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 Wallace Wade Stadium by season, 2001 to 202610k20k30k40k50k2001: 19,424 a game over 6 games; biggest 35,2062002: 23,234 a game over 6 games; biggest 33,0022003: 20,026 a game over 7 games; biggest 27,6142004: 22,505 a game over 5 games; biggest 30,5412005: 17,486 a game over 6 games; biggest 25,0142006: 19,580 a game over 7 games; biggest 27,5462007: 20,064 a game over 5 games; biggest 23,6912008: 28,727 a game over 7 games; biggest 32,5712009: 26,264 a game over 6 games; biggest 33,0112010: 28,750 a game over 7 games; biggest 39,0422011: 24,393 a game over 7 games; biggest 32,7412012: 28,170 a game over 7 games; biggest 33,9412013: 26,062 a game over 7 games; biggest 32,0102014: 27,291 a game over 7 games; biggest 33,9412015: 26,427 a game over 6 games; biggest 33,9412016: 29,895 a game over 6 games; biggest 39,2122017: 26,797 a game over 7 games; biggest 36,3142018: 26,646 a game over 6 games; biggest 35,4932019: 25,811 a game over 6 games; biggest 40,0042021: 15,424 a game over 7 games; biggest 20,6932022: 25,261 a game over 5 games; biggest 40,0042023: 25,111 a game over 7 games; biggest 40,7682024: 26,183 a game over 6 games; biggest 35,0182025: 24,283 a game over 6 games; biggest 30,0222026: 19,085 a game over 3 games; biggest 22,003200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

40,768Notre Dame at Duke2023
40,004North Carolina at Duke2022
40,004Notre Dame at Duke2019
39,212North Carolina at Duke2016
39,042Alabama at Duke2010

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.

College GameDay here

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from Wallace Wade Stadium once, first in 2023.

Sep 30, 2023Notre Dame 21, Duke 14Abele Quad

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of College GameDay locations (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 Duke’s home games before 2004 (NOAA GHCN-Daily, public domain).

The stadium’s history

Former names
Duke Stadium (1929–⁠1967)
Architect
Horace Trumbauer
Surface over the years
Latitude 36 Bermuda Grass
Expanded
2016
Renovated
2014–⁠2017
Record crowd
57,500 (November 19, 1949)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Wallace Wade Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 190 by 200 meters (640 by 650 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 17, 2026North Carolina 24, Duke 20
Sep 26, 2026Duke 62, William & Mary 7
Sep 19, 2026Duke 35, Stanford 7
Sep 5, 2026Duke 17, Tulane 3
Nov 29, 2025Duke 49, Wake Forest 32
Nov 15, 202520Virginia 34, Duke 17
Oct 18, 202512Georgia Tech 27, Duke 18
Sep 20, 2025Duke 45, NC State 33
Sep 6, 202511Illinois 45, Duke 19
Aug 28, 2025Duke 45, Elon 17
Nov 23, 2024Duke 31, Virginia Tech 28
Oct 26, 202422SMU 28, Duke 27

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

Coca-Cola has the stadium’s soft-drink pouring rights. Official source.