California Memorial Stadium

California Memorial Stadium is the football home of the California Golden Bears in Berkeley, California. It sits at the base of the Berkeley Hills with sweeping views of San Francisco Bay, giving it one of the most scenic settings in college football. Since a 2010-2012 renovation, it holds 63,186 fans in a horseshoe bowl with the field lowered four feet for better sightlines. Game days carry a classic Pac-12-heritage college-town energy, especially for rivalry games against Stanford.

Opened in 1923 as a memorial to Californians who served in World War I, the stadium originally held more than 73,000 fans. Because it sits astride the Hayward Fault, it underwent a $321 million seismic retrofit and renovation completed in 2012 that lowered capacity to its current 63,186; the Bears played the 2011 season at AT&T Park in San Francisco during construction. It is the site of the annual Big Game against Stanford, forever linked to 'The Play,' the wild multi-lateral kickoff return that decided the 1982 edition.