CAMPING WORLD STADIUM
Updated 05-May-2020.
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Camping World Stadium: Camping World Stadium is the Orlando’s home for world class events like the NFL Pro Bowl, Citrus Bowl, Camping World Bowl, Cure Bowl, Camping World Kickoff, Florida Classic, Monster Jam and more!
WWE WrestleMania 33 Breaks Attendance Record at Orlando Citrus Bowl: WrestleMania 33 set an attendance record for Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, WWE announced Sunday night…
Orlando City Stadium to host Cure Bowl: The Cure Bowl is moving from the 65,000-seat Camping World Stadium to the much smaller 25,500-seat Orlando City Stadium.
History | Camping World Stadium
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Camping World Stadium is a stadium in downtown Orlando, west of new sports and entertainment facilities . it opened in 1936 as Orlando Stadium and has also been known as the Tangerine Bowl and Florida Citrus Bowl . the city of Orlando the stadium was built to the immediate east of the baseball park Tinker Field . the stadium opened later in 1936 with a capacity of 8,900 as Orlando Stadium . it was also one of the nine venues used for the 1994 FIFA world the first college football bowl game was played on January 1, 1947. Catawba defeated Maryville 31–6 in the inaugural Tangerine Bowl. 2,000 seats were added in 1952. During this period, the stadium was known the expansion project raised the capacity to 50,612, including a 3,600-seat upper deck on the east sidelines . shortly after completion the project proved to be a public fiasco and potentially an architectural and engineering failure engineering evaluations uncovered numerous missteps, rushing, and cut corners in stadium’s design . the upper deck was structurally sound and met building codes, but nevertheless was deemed a failure . additional problems included inadequate the maligned stadium’s reputation was heavily tarnished after the upper deck scandal . the infamous steel east upper deck was dismantled in May 1980 . in 1983, the Florida Department of Citrus was added key stadium improvements include contour seating, two escalators, and a new scoreboard/video screen . from 1966 to 1970, the stadium was home to the Orlando Panthers of the Continental Football League . in 1974, the the Florida high school athletic association state football championships are held at Camping World Stadium . seven national football league (NFL) preseason football games have been held at the stadium . the school started playing home football games on their own field beginning on august 31, 2012 . Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, was the first college to use the then named Orlando Stadium as its home field . it played there prior Camping World Stadium hosted the Cure Bowl from 2015 to 2018 . it hosted the USISL A-League Orlando Sundogs in 1997 . Camping world stadium was the home of Orlando City SC, a soccer team in the USL Pro League . in 2013, the investment group that owned that club was awarded an expansion team in Major League Soccer . naming rights to the field Orlando City played their final USL Pro match at Camping World Stadium on September 6, 2013 . they won the USL pro championship over Charlotte Eagles, 7–4, before a crowd of 20,886 . the last soccer event held the Orlando Pride played in Camping World Stadium while the Orlando City Stadium was completed . this was the first WrestleMania to be held in the state of Florida . it was the largest crowd ever to attend an event at the venue the WWE claimed an attendance record of 75,245, beating the venue’s previous attendance record which was set at WrestleMania XXIV . the 2014 Monster Jam event on January 25 was the last event held at Camping in 2005, UCF officials led by university president John Hitt made the decision to construct a new on-campus stadium . the stadium was located over 10 miles (16 km) from the university’s main campus in east Orlando, with a $175-million renovation of Camping World Stadium is part of the “Triple Crown for Downtown” plan . it includes a $480-million arena for the Orlando Magic, a new $375 million performing arts center in 2010, the natural grass surface was replaced with AstroTurf Gameday Grass 3D . the 2009 Champs Sports Bowl and 2010 Capital One Bowl were marred by poor field conditions . in 2013, the Florida Citrus the newly reconstructed stadium has two concourses, a 20,000-square-foot plaza deck . the reconstruction began immediately following a groundbreaking event held at the stadium . demolition of the entire lower bowl lasted 25 the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats defeated the Florida A&M Rattlers, 18–17 in overtime . Orlando Pride broke the record for attendance at an NWSL game, setting at 23,403, when the Pride beat Camping World would also be title sponsor of stadium’s college football kickoff game through at least 2019 . the annual December bowl game held at the stadium became known as the Camping World Bowl . temporary bleachers were last used for the 2005 the seating capacity was reduced to 60,219 due to the introduction of chair-back seats in the lower bowl and Plaza Level . temporary bleachers can be added in the Plaza level in place of the Party Deck to increase the capacity to the change coincided with a production move to Disney-MGM Studios . the change reflected the real-life expansion team, the Jacksonville Jaguars .