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The 32,375-spectator stadium was used by the Lions from 1954 until 1982. For soccer, the venue was used by North American Soccer League's Vancouver Royals from 1967 to 1968 and subsequently by the Vancouver Whitecaps from 1974 to 1982. Both the Lions and Whitecaps moved to the newly constructed, then 60,000 seat BC Place for the 1983 season. [1]
The 2010 BC Lions played all of their home games at their former site at the Pacific National Exhibition grounds at Empire Field while BC Place Stadium had a retractable roof installed. The Lions also staged their training camp in Kamloops, BC – the first of three over the next three years – as a part of the club's desire to represent the ...
BC Lions: Empire Stadium: 1954–1982 32,375 1954 Vancouver, British Columbia [21] Empire Field: 2010–2011 27,528 2010 [22] Calgary Stampeders: Mewata Stadium: 1935–1959 10,000 1906 Calgary, Alberta [23] Edmonton Elks: Clarke Stadium: 1949–1978 20,000 1938 Edmonton, Alberta [24] Saskatchewan Roughriders: Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field ...
The Lions have played at BC Place since it opened in 1983 and had a record attendance of 59,478 for three games in 1985 and 1986. [61] When it was built, the floor of BC Place was too small to accommodate a full-sized CFL regulation field, as a result BC Place became the first CFL stadium to use a 20-yard end zone instead of the regulation 25 ...
With BC Place Stadium undergoing renovations in 2010 and 2011, the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps played their home games at Empire Field, a temporary field constructed on the former grounds of Empire Stadium. [2] [3] [4] After the renovations to BC Place were complete, the temporary stadium was removed. The park and sports fields were ...
The following is a partial list of Canadian football stadiums, ordered by permanent capacity.Most of Canada's football stadiums with permanent seating capacities over 3,000 are listed here.
The 2024 BC Lions season was the 66th season for the team in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and their 70th overall. The Lions qualified for the playoffs for the third straight year in week 18 following their win over the Calgary Stampeders and Saskatchewan's the next day. However, the team lost the West Semi-Final to the Roughriders.
On February 7, 2011, it was announced that the BC Lions would be opening the newly renovated BC Place on September 30, 2011. [8] When the schedule was released on February 18, 2011, it was announced that the Lions' opponent would be the Edmonton Eskimos and that they would play four 2011 regular season games in BC Place Stadium.