U. J. Esuene Stadium
U. J. Esuene Stadium is a stadium in Calabar, Nigeria that opened in 1977. Its recorded capacity is 16,000.
Key facts
U. J. Esuene Stadium is a stadium in Calabar, Nigeria that opened in 1977. Its recorded capacity is 16,000. No current owner is recorded. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Calabar Rovers, Calabar Rovers, Pelican Stars F.C..
- Location
- Calabar, Nigeria
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 16,000
- Opened
- 1977
- Status
- Active
- Current owner
- Not recorded
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
U. J. Esuene Stadium is at latitude 4.967556, longitude 8.326861, in Calabar, Nigeria. 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 | 4.967556 |
| Longitude | 8.326861 |
| City | Calabar |
| Region | Calabar |
| Country | Nigeria |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
No ownership or operator rows are recorded for this venue.
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calabar Rovers | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Calabar Rovers | Not mapped | 1977 to present | Current | Source |
| Pelican Stars F.C. | Not mapped | 1977 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
6 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2026 | venues | capacity | 25000 | 16000 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372246581 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | U._J._Esuene_Stadium | U. J. Esuene Stadium | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 20159 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 9172 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 9171 | 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: