Edmonton Eskimos - Stadium and Training Facilities

Stadium and Training Facilities

The Edmonton Eskimos Football Club play their home games at the newly renovated Commonwealth Stadium in the city of champions, Edmonton, Alberta. Commonwealth Stadium is a state of the art sports and entertainment venue, that seats 63,317 fans with ease. The major renovations and overhaul that began in 2009, include the following:

• A $26 million field house. Construction of the field house began in April 2009, and the field house has 90,000 square feet on three levels. It is an indoor field house with a new full width practice field (an artificial turf field), running track, stretching area and weight room on another level.
• On site executive offices.
• A players lounge.
• A state of the art locker room, that rivals and surpasses the player accommodations in a number of NFL stadiums, and it is by far one of the best locker rooms in the CFL..
• The meeting rooms or on the second level for game day events and meetings.
• There is a hot tub and cold tub in the training area.
• New media center and treatment rooms.
• the stadium undertook a $2.7 million renovation to the field turf in 2010 and spent fifty thousand on SOD and maintenance alone.
• The stadium has added major lighting upgrades that are unique to any other stadium currently in the CFL.

The total cost of the ongoing development and renovation of Commonwealth and the development of the North Central Community Recreation Center and Field House (NCCRC) is projected to be around $110 million dollars.