CenturyLink Field
Formerly Qwest Field
Home of the Seattle Seahawks

CenturyLink Field Information

In 1996, Paul G. Allen obtained an option to purchase the Seattle Seahawks and launched a campaign to win public support for a new world-class football/ soccer stadium and exhibition center. Six years later, the dream became reality as the Seahawks opened the 2002 preseason against the Indianapolis Colts in new Seahawks Stadium, renamed Qwest Field on June 2, 2004. After seven seasons, the field was renamed CenturyLink Field on June 23, 2011. The facility, built atop of the site of the Kingdome, is not only home to the Seahawks, but the stadium accommodates many levels of soccer competition, including Major League Soccer, amateur, international, World Cup and collegiate soccer.

CenturyLink Field is designed with a 67,000 seat capacity, with 5,000 additional seats available for special events, and 1,400 seats for fans with disabilities. With a roof covering 70 percent of the seating area, fans will enjoy wide, comfortable seats with sideline seating a mere 52 feet from the playing field and end-zone seats just 40 feet from the action. The facility also features a dozen elevators and expansive concourses with an ample provision of concessions stands and restrooms.

In addition to having perfect views of the field and surrounding areas, fans experience elements of diversity and culture in part of the Stadium Art Program. In 1998, a request for qualifications yielded a total of 254 responses from around the United States and Canada. After reviewing the full range of submissions, 12 artists and projects were selected. Today, the stadium includes nearly $2 million worth of art.

• Open air design with a roof protecting 70 percent of seats.
  
• The field is FieldTurf, an artificial playing surface.
  
• Seating capacity of 67,000 fixed seats with the ability to increase to 72,000.
  
• 7,000 club seats and 111 suites, including the NFL's only field-level suites.
  
• 1,400 seats for people with disabilities and companions.
  
• Wide concourses offering outstanding views of the Seattle skyline, Safeco Field, Mount Rainier, Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.
  
• 48 concession stands and restaurant seating for 500.
  
• Public art interspersed throughout the interior and exterior.
  
• 11 elevators.
  
• 63 restroom facilities.
  
• A 2,000 car garage-part of 6,500 parking spaces within a short walk of the stadium.
  
• One executive suite provided to ticket-holders at each Seahawk game, with users determined by a lottery.
  
• 10 percent of Seahawk tickets priced at the average lowest ticket price of all NFL teams.