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DATCU Stadium is the home of Mean Green football and the centerpiece of the Mean Green Athletic Village.
The stadium, which seats 30,100, opened in 2011 as DATCU Stadium. It was designed by the same team that created the spectacular Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium, award-winning architects HKS Sports and Entertainment Group and Manhattan Construction. They brought some of the same touches to Denton. DATCU Stadium features two huge, state-of-the-art video boards, 21 luxury suites, 750 club seats, high-tech facilities for broadcast and print media, banquet rooms and an 1,800-square-foot team apparel store.
The stadium seats 30,100 in a horseshoe-shaped bowl, putting fans close to the action and offering excellent sight lines from every seat. A spacious concourse runs under the seats and boasts 23 concession stands for food and drink vendors. DATCU Stadium is also home to the North Texas Ticket Office, located on the west side next to Gate 2.
In August 2024, new permanent chairbacks were added to sections 104, 105 and 106. The seats are the first ever seating upgrades at DATCU Stadium. They were installed by DreamSeat and feature 22-inch mesh chairbacks with a cup holder for each seat.
At the open end of the horseshoe is the giant high-definition scoreboard and videoboard with a display screen measuring 27 feet high and 47 feet wide, directly behind the south end zone and towering over the Mean Green’s tunnel entrance to the field. A second videoboard, 15 feet high and 27 feet wide, stands behind the corner of the north end zone.
Behind the north end zone is one of DATCU Stadium’s two signature features, giant wing-shaped grandstands which echo the shape of the Mean Green’s eagle logo. The tips of the grandstand’s wings reach 106 feet above the playing field.
DATCU Stadium’s other distinguishing characteristic is its unique green ecological design. DATCU Stadium is the first newly-constructed college football stadium in the nation to be awarded a LEED Platinum Certification, the highest level of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design status.
The United States Green Building Council evaluated the stadium and awarded the certification, signifying DATCU Stadium’s use of renewable and recycled materials, reduced energy and water consumption and decreased CO2 emissions. Three wind turbines were constructed next to the stadium in 2012 and provide approximately half a million kilowatt hours per year for the North Texas Eagle Point power grid while eliminating the emission of 323 metric tons of CO2.
Originally named Mean Green Stadium, it was renamed when ResNet provider Apogee Telecom, Inc. purchased the naming rights in 2011. The name was changed to DATCU Stadium in August 2023 after a record-breaking sponsorship deal was signed with local credit union, DATCU .
The capacity was reduced in 2024 after the installation of new chairbacks in multiple sections on the west side of the stadium. The original capacity from 2011-23 was 30,850.
