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Kinnick Stadium is a stadium located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.It is the home stadium of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football team. Opened in 1929 as Iowa Stadium to replace Iowa Field, it currently holds up to 69,250 people, making it the 7th largest stadium in the Big Ten, and one of the 20 largest university owned stadiums in the nation.
The 2025 Iowa Hawkeyes football team will represent the University of Iowa as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season.The Hawkeyes are led by Kirk Ferentz who is in his 27th year as head coach.
Iowa Stadium was renamed Nile Kinnick Stadium in 1972 in honor of Nile Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner and the only Heisman winner in university history, who died in service during World War II. It holds 69,250 people, [27] making it the 25th largest college football stadium in America and the 82nd largest sports stadium in the world.
It took all of one week for the fans inside Kinnick Stadium to remind everyone that they are always a factor for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
A 21-year attendance record was broken on Sunday when 55,646 people packed into Kinnick Stadium to watch Iowa women’s basketball team take on the DePaul Blue Demons in an exhibition game.
Crossover at Kinnick was an American exhibition women's college basketball game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the DePaul Blue Demons. Held at Kinnick Stadium , the home stadium of the Hawkeyes football team , the game set the women's basketball single-game attendance record (55,646).
A general view of the west side of Kinnick Stadium near Gate D, where police say protesters attached themselves to the door with U-locks on Dec. 9, is pictured on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023.
The Hawkeyes' first home game that year was with Oregon State, and a pre-game ceremony on September 23 made it official: Iowa Stadium became known as Nile Kinnick Stadium. Kinnick's father took part in the ceremony and seemed genuinely pleased. [43] Kinnick Stadium is the only college football stadium named for a Heisman Trophy winner. In 2006 ...