Empire Field
Empire Field is a stadium in Vancouver, Canada that opened in 2010. Its recorded capacity is 27,528.
Key facts
Empire Field is a stadium in Vancouver, Canada that opened in 2010. Its recorded capacity is 27,528. It is owned by BC Pavilion Corporation and BC Pavilion Corporation. It is operated by Pacific National Exhibition and Pacific National Exhibition. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are BC Lions, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, BC Lions, Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
- Location
- Vancouver, Canada
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 27,528
- Opened
- 2010
- Status
- Demolished
- Current owner
- BC Pavilion Corporation, BC Pavilion Corporation
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
- Playing surface
- Artificial turf
Empire Field is at latitude 49.282639, longitude -123.033222, in Vancouver, Canada. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | 49.282639 |
| Longitude | -123.033222 |
| City | Vancouver |
| Region | Vancouver |
| Country | Canada |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Technology
| Feature | Recorded as | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Artificial turf | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
See the venue technology guides for how these work.
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
| Role | Organization | Period | Status | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | BC Pavilion Corporation | 2010 to present | Current | Wikidata statement | Source |
| Owner | BC Pavilion Corporation | Present | Current | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
| Operator | Pacific National Exhibition | 2010 to present | Current | Wikidata statement | Source |
| Operator | Pacific National Exhibition | Present | Current | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BC Lions | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| BC Lions | Not mapped | 2010 to present | Current | Source |
| Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Not mapped | 2010 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
11 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 373 | 2026-10 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372086134 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Empire_Field | Empire Field | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 16921 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 16920 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 16919 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 16918 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 2001 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 2000 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 1999 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 1998 | 2026-09 |
Sources and licenses
Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:
- Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
- OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
- Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Row-level sources used for this venue: