University of Minnesota Athletics
Huntington Bank Stadium
ABOUT HUNTINGTON BANK STADIUM
>> When completed, Huntington Bank Stadium became the first new football stadium in the Big Ten since 1960 and the first in NCAA FBS since 2006 (additional NCAA FBS stadiums have since been built).
>> The Gophers locker room is a state-of-the-art 60 x 25-yard area, shaped like a football with 120 custom-built lockers and 10 LCD televisions.
>> The Gophers have a private recruiting room that can accommodate 150 people.
>> The main high-definition video display in the stadium is one of the largest in college sports at approximately 48 feet high by 108 feet wide. It boasts Daktronics HD-16 technology and was the first of its kind in the Big Ten Conference.
>> The University achieved LEED certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Huntington Bank Stadium, making it the first LEED certified college football stadium in America. The certification is achieved by accumulating credits for various environmentally and sustainable efforts in design and construction.
>> In addition to Minnesota college football games, Huntington Bank Stadium has hosted Gopher hockey games, Monday Night Football (Minnesota vs. Chicago), NHL Stadium Series (Minnesota vs. Chicago), international soccer match (Manchester City vs. Olympiacos), MLB All-Star concert, U2, Rolling Stones, Beyonce, One Direction, Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line. The Minnesota Vikings (2014-15) and Minnesota United (2017-18) also played seasons at Huntington Bank Stadium while their new stadiums were being built.
| STADIUM SEATING | |
| 50,805 | Capacity of stadium |
| 25,000 | Approx. number of seats with permanent chairbacks |
| 37 | Private suites |
| 57 | Loge boxes |
| 1,250 | Outdoor Club seats |
| 250 | Indoor Club seats |
| 20,000 | Square-foot Club Room for game day and non-game day usage |
STADIUM BY THE NUMBERS | |
| 1,300,000 | Total number of on-site work hours to complete stadium |
| 24,000 | Cubic yards of cast-in-place concrete, enough to make a five-foot-wide sidewalk from Minneapolis to Rochester, MN (74 miles) |
| 8,800 | Tons of structural steel, 97% of which is from recycled steel |
| 4,019,760 | LED lights make up the video boards. The main scoreboard is one of the largest in college sports. |
| 740,000 | Units of brick |
| 2,020,000 | Feet of cable for telecom, broadcast, sound, fire alarm and security systems (382 miles) |
| 2,210,000 | Feet of electrical wire/cable for power (418 miles) |
| 900,000 | Square feet of finished space |
| 7,500 | Light fixtures |
| 350 | Televisions |
| 38 | Miles of Aquatherm Blue Pipe filled with Glycol-based heat to keep the field from freezing |
| 12 | Elevators and escalators |
| ATTENDANCE RECORDS | ||
| 1. | 54,147 vs. TCU | 9/13/15 |
| 2. | 54,062 vs. Nebraska | 10/17/15 |
| 3. | 53,917 vs. Ohio | 9/26/15 |
| 4. | 53,756 vs. Wisconsin | 11/30/19 |
| 5. | 53,090 vs. Wisconsin | 11/23/13 |
| 6. | 52,850 vs. Wisconsin | 11/28/15 |
| 7. | 52,823 vs. Kent State | 9/19/15 |
| 8. | 51,883 vs. Penn State | 11/9/19 |
| 9. | 51,382 vs. Iowa | 9/28/13 |
| 10. | 51,241 vs. Purdue | 10/18/14 |
