Venue

Parking

Give yourself plenty of time for traveling to and entering University of Phoenix Stadium this season. Sportsman’s Park carparks and other vehicle parking areas open four (4) hours prior to kickoff to both vehicles and guests.

Children’s Ticket Policy
Children 24 months of age or younger are permitted entry inside University of Phoenix Stadium without a ticket provided they obtain “lap pass” prior to entry. Adults can request a lap pass from stadium staff checking tickets at the entrance gates. The child receiving the lap pass must be present when the pass is issued. There is a limit of one lap pass per adult game ticket.

Entrance Gates
The two Club Entrance gates open 3 hours and 15 minutes prior to kickoff for Club and Loft ticket holders

  • Gila River Club West – Northwest corner. Look for the large red “W.”
  • Insight Club East – East side. Look for the large red “E.”
  • The three public entrance gates open 90 minutes prior to kickoff for all ticket holders.
  • Verizon Wireless Gate 1 – Southwest corner. Look for the large red “1.”
  • University of Phoenix Gate 2 – North side. Look for the large red “2.”
  • Budweiser Gate 3 – Southeast corner. Look for the large red “3.”

Will Call
The Will Call windows are located at the Ticket Office, to the east of Gate 2. The Ticket Office is open three hours prior to kickoff and closes at halftime. Will Call tickets can be claimed only by the person whose name appears on the will call ticket envelope. State or government picture identification is required.

First Aid
University of Phoenix Stadium has four First Aid locations that are available to assist fans throughout the event. The First Aid offices are located along the main concourse (near Sections 122 & 136) and terrace concourse (near Sections 416 & 448).

Stadium Facts

  • 1.7 million Square footage of stadium
  • 88 Total number of luxury lofts in stadium
  • 7,501 Total number of club seats in stadium
  • 7 Number of club lounges
  • 63,400 Seating capacity for Cardinals games (expandable to 73,000 for Super Bowls and college Bowl games)
  • 1,250 Approximate number of shade trees used throughout the stadium plaza
  • 21 Number of vertical slots on the exterior wall of stadium
  • 30 Height in feet of the giant numbers designating the three main entrances to the stadium
  • 19 Width in inches of the stadium seats; club seats are 21 inches
  • 10 Number of elevators for public use in stadium
  • 18 Number of escalators for public use in stadium
  • 115+ Number of event days already booked for first year at the stadium
  • 1.1 million Projected number of visitors to stadium in its first year
  • 14 Number of new NFL venues HOK has designed
  • 1,175 Total restroom fixtures for public use in the stadium (33 women’s restrooms, 28 men’s, and 12 family restrooms)
  • 310 The number of fixed locations for fans to purchase food and beverages (does not include additional portable locations)
  • 8,000 Tons of cooling used by the stadium’s air conditioning
  • 2,300 Number of Valley homes that could be accommodated by the air conditioning provided at the stadium
  • 14,000 Number of on-site parking spaces (not including additional 11,000 on adjacent and nearby parcels)
  • 15,451 Square footage of the Cardinals locker room area including equipment and training rooms, shower areas, etc. (Locker room itself is 5,000)
  • 454,785 Votes in favor of Proposition 302 stadium legislation in 2000
  • 1,218 Days between the stadium groundbreaking (4/12/03) and the inaugural game at the stadium (8/12/06)
  • 16,340 Total number of jobs created by Proposition 302; overall economic impact is $1.95 billion
  • 700 Average number of workers on-site daily during stadium construction (3,000 total workers)
  • 2.6 million Total number of hours put in by workers during construction project
  • 900 Length in miles of a sidewalk that could be made from the amount of concrete used on the stadium (roughly the distance from Phoenix to San Francisco)
  • 10,000 Approximate number of individual Crown Coor panels that make up the metallic skin of the stadium’s exterior