Biggest High School Football Stadiums

High school football is played in all corners of the United States. Every Friday night, stadiums fill up to cheer on local heroes who sometimes go on to become college and NFL standouts. 

The variety in size of those stadiums ranges from the very small to the very, very big. We wanted to find the biggest high school football stadiums in the country. While it’s an inexact science, we did have a few rules — only one stadium per state and only stadiums that were created primarily with high school football in mind. 

These are the biggest high school football stadiums in the U.S. 

Capacity: 6,000

Location: Rexburg, Idaho

High school: Madison High School

Year opened: 2019

Note: Not all states are represented since capacity information isn’t readily available for every high school football stadium.

Madison County didn’t spare any expense when it built a state-of-the-art, $8.8 million stadium for Madison High School as part of a $27 million bond issue that was approved in 2017. 

Bobcat Stadium’s new press box features four separate rooms, and the turf was installed by the same company that has done several NFL fields. The really great touch here was an LED-lighting system that is something to behold. The University of Utah even approached the Madison County School District in hopes of incorporating the same lighting system at their stadium.

Madison has won seven state championships, including three consecutive titles from 1982 to 1984. 

Capacity: 6,000

Location: Bismarck, North Dakota

High schools: Bismarck High School, Century High School, St. Mary’s Central High School, Legacy High School

Year opened: 1996

The Bismarck Community Bowl is putting in as much or more work as any high school football stadium. It’s home to four high school football teams and two local small college football teams and adjacent to the campus of Bismarck State, which doesn’t have a football team.

If you make it here for a game, try to catch Bismarck vs. Century. In the last decade, they’ve combined to win seven state titles, including four state championship games where they’ve faced each other. 

Century’s greatest player? Carson Wentz grew from 5-foot-8 as a freshman at Century High in Bismarck, North Dakota, to 6-foot-5 as a senior and won five FCS national championships at North Dakota State — one as a redshirt, two as a backup and two as the starter — before the Philadelphia Eagles selected him No. 2 overall in the 2016 NFL draft.