Valley Children's Stadium 3D Seat View

Valley Children's Stadium seating chart with real 3D views from every section

Next game

Bulldogs v Sacramento State Hornets · 12 Sep

Programme

Fresno State Bulldogs

Conference

Pac-12

Capacity

~40,727

Opened

1980

City

Fresno, CA

Home games

6 in 2026

This was Bulldog Stadium for forty-two years, from 1980 until Valley Children's Healthcare bought the name in July 2022; the pitch has been Jim Sweeney Field since 1997. What makes the building unusual is that it is sunk: the field sits thirty-seven feet below ground level, so you come in at the top and walk down towards it rather than up. The consequence is a steeper rake and closer seats than the capacity suggests, and a great deal more noise.

The support is called the Red Wave and the programme's old motto — anybody, anytime, anywhere — is still the thing Fresno State says about itself. The end zones are painted in red and white checkerboard. The real variable is heat: this is the Central Valley, and a September afternoon here can sit between thirty-five and forty degrees with no shade to be had. By late November the problem reverses and tule fog can settle over a night kick-off.

A closed bowl, steeper than most, with more than five thousand individual seats between the eighteen-yard lines on the west and four thousand two hundred and forty backed seats on the east alongside the twenty-two sky suites added in the 1991-92 expansion. Everything else is aluminium bench. The video board and ribbon board are at the north end. The floodlighting is cantilevered off the structure rather than carried on towers, with four LED towers added in the corners in 2019. Because the whole bowl is dug in, even the back rows are closer to the field than the equivalent seat in a stadium of this size built at grade.

Frequently asked questions

How can I see the view from my seat at Valley Children's Stadium?

Click any section on the interactive Valley Children's Stadium map above and a real panoramic 3D view from that part of the stadium opens instantly. Drag to look around in 360°, so you know what you will see before you buy a ticket.

What is the capacity of Valley Children's Stadium?

40,727 for college football.

Who plays at Valley Children's Stadium?

The Fresno State Bulldogs, in the Pac-12. The programme plays 6 home games here in the 2026 season.

What was Valley Children's Stadium called before?

Bulldog Stadium. It is the same building and the same seating bowl — a section number from the Bulldog Stadium era still points at the same seats.

When is the next game at Valley Children's Stadium?

Bulldogs v Sacramento State Hornets on 12 Sep 2026. Kick-off times are confirmed by the television networks closer to the date.

What are the best seats at Valley Children's Stadium?

Backed seats on either sideline for a proper chair and the best angle, the middle rows anywhere for the closeness the excavation buys you, and the shaded west side for an early-season afternoon.