Amon G. Carter Stadium
Facility Facts
Official Capacity: 46,000
Largest Crowd: 53,294 (vs. Colorado; Sept. 2, 2023)
Field Name: Moncrief Field
Field Surface: Natural Grass
Address
Amon G. Carter Stadium
2850 Stadium Drive
Fort Worth, TX 76109
Amon G. Carter Stadium
Amon G. Carter Stadium has been the home of TCU football since 1930. The stadium's official capacity is 46,000, though attendance can run higher on game days when TCU adds standing-room and supplemental seating for high-demand matchups — the record crowd of 53,294 for the Sept. 2, 2023 game against Colorado was reached this way.
The stadium's most recent addition, the Legends Club & Suites, opened on the east side in 2020 and remains its premier hospitality space today, hosting both game-day suite holders and non-gameday corporate and private events.
The playing surface, Moncrief Field, is natural grass. TCU switched from artificial turf to grass prior to the 1992 season.
Renovation Timeline (2006-2020)
TCU's most extensive stadium renovation modernized the west side and north end zone in 2012, followed a decade later by a major expansion of premium seating on the east side.
- 2006 — TCU begins studying a stadium renovation. Board of Trustees chairman Luther King appoints vice chair Clarence Scharbauer to lead a renovation committee.
- Aug. 16, 2010 — TCU announces a $105 million renovation of the west side and north end zone, with a stated goal of transforming the stadium into a "Camden Yards" of college football venues.
- 2011 — An east side renovation is added to the project, bringing the total cost to $164 million, fully funded through donor support, including a $15 million lead gift from the Amon G. Carter Foundation.
- Nov. 13, 2010 — Construction begins immediately following TCU's final home game of the season, against San Diego State.
- Dec. 5, 2010 — The stadium's historic south tower is removed and the west side's original upper deck is imploded.
- 2012 — The renovated stadium opens with a capacity of 45,000. The design, by HKS Sports & Entertainment Group (also the architect of Cowboys Stadium in Arlington), draws on the 1930s Southwestern art deco style found throughout Fort Worth.
- 2020 — The Legends Club & Suites open on the east side, a $113 million project adding two new levels of luxury seating above the upper deck. The addition includes 48 loge boxes, two private clubs, more than 1,000 club seats and 22 luxury suites, along with a 100-foot outdoor balcony overlooking campus and downtown Fort Worth.
Stadium History
TCU's football team outgrew its original home, Clark Field, prompting the Board of Trustees to pursue a new stadium. Momentum built after the Horned Frogs won their first Southwest Conference championship on Nov. 30, 1929, tying rival SMU 7-7 on a late fourth-quarter drive led by quarterback Howard Grubbs. Under first-year coach Francis Schmidt, TCU finished that season 9-0-1.
An Athletics Committee launched a fundraising campaign led by Fort Worth Star-Telegram publisher Amon G. Carter, initially aiming to raise $150,000 for a 30,000-seat stadium. The plan evolved into a $350,000 stadium, funded through mortgage bonds, seating 27,000 with room to expand to 60,000. Construction began in 1929, and less than a year later, on Oct. 11, 1930, the Frogs christened the new Amon G. Carter Stadium — then holding 22,000 — with a 40-0 win over Arkansas.
The stadium grew steadily over the next three decades:
- 1948 — East grandstand expansion adds 8,500 seats (total: 30,500)
- 1951 — North end zone addition adds 2,500 seats (total: 33,000)
- 1953 — East grandstand expansion adds 4,000 seats (total: 37,000)
- 1956 — A two-level press box and upper deck are added, more than doubling original capacity to 46,083. The addition included a 60-by-120-foot "TCU" logo built into the bleacher seating, visible to flights approaching DFW Airport.
A series of facility additions in the final two decades before the 2012 renovation helped establish TCU as one of college football's premier programs:
- 1996 — The Walsh Physical Performance Complex opens south of the stadium at a cost of more than $11 million, adding the TCU Sports Medicine Center along with an expanded locker room, weight room and equipment room. It's named for former TCU trustee F. Howard Walsh and his wife, Mary D. Fleming-Walsh.
- 2002 — A new scoreboard and video board are installed in the north end zone, funded by the Dave E. Bloxom Sr. Foundation. The John S. Justin Athletic Center, a $7.5 million facility housing football coaches' offices, athletics administration, team meeting rooms and the Encke Heritage Center, opens in the south end zone.
- 2003 — The playing surface is named Moncrief Field following a $3 million donation in honor of the W.A. "Monty" and "Tex" Moncrief family. The stadium also becomes the annual home of the Armed Forces Bowl.
- 2008 — The 40,000-square-foot Dutch Meyer Athletic Complex and Abe Martin Academic Enhancement Center opens, funded by nine donors at a cost of $13 million. It adds six luxury suites — the closest to the field of any stadium in the country — 250 club seats, academic and team meeting space, and a player lounge, bringing capacity to 44,358.
- 2011 — The new TCU Physical Performance Center opens, nearly tripling the size of the team's weight room to 19,000 square feet across two stories.
- 2025 — The $50 million, 50,000-square-foot Human Performance Center project was completed and opened in the summer of 2025. The project encompassed an all-new weight room for the team, the Jamal Powell Strength Room, as well as the Simpson Family Restoration Center.
- 2026 — The south end zone video board is upgraded as well as the stadium lights to a new, full-spectrum LED system to enhance the game day environment.
