Stadium tidbits

FACTS & FIGURES

Total cost of the stadium was $27.75 million ($228 million in 2021 dollars). The breakdown:

Stadium construction — $15.5 million

Land acquisition — $2.3 million

Grading/site prep — $1.44 million

Parking lot — $1.17 million

Playing field development — $200,000 Architectural/engineering fees — $660,000 Contingency reserve (8 percent) — $1.6 million

Other (including offsite utilities, legal/administrative costs and bond payment set asides during construction) — $4.88 million

EXPANSION PROJECTS

The 50,000-seat stadium was considered perfectly sized when it opened 1967. In 1983, there were 9,000 seats added in the outfield area beneath the scoreboard, boosting capacity to 59,000. The stadium was fully enclosed in 1997 (at a cost of about $80 million), adding another 11,000 seats to reach 70,000 in time for Super Bowl XXXII in 1998.

NAMES THROUGH THE YEARS

San Diego Stadium (1967-81)

San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium (1981-97) Qualcomm Stadium (1997-2017)

SDCCU Stadium (2017-2020)

San Diego Stadium (2021)