New Aloha Stadium for Hawaii football receives approval, to be finished in 2029
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A new Aloha Stadium has been approved by the state of Hawaii, which will contribute $400 million for a 22,500-seat stadium that will become the home of Hawaii football.
The stadium is scheduled to be completed in 2029. The stadium plans were reported by Front Office Sports on Wednesday.
The old Aloha Stadium was a fixture in Hawaii for decades, as the home of the NFL’s Pro Bowl, college football’s Hula Bowl and in later years the Hawaii Bowl. It was also the longtime home of Hawaii football from 1975 through 2020. The venerable stadium closed after that 2020 season in December of that year.
The stadium opened on Sept. 12, 1975, and after decades of being the shining example of tooball in the state of Hawaii, there will finally be a new Aloha Stadium for viewers on the mainland of the United States to admire. That new stadium will be the new home of Rainbow Warriors football.
With the old Aloha Stadium scheduled to be demolished this month, there are now plans for the new stadium’s arrival in 4 years. That stadium will give Hawaii football a brand new start after decades in the old stadium, and it surely will provide a recruiting advantage for Hawaii that already existed with its location alone.
Since 2021, Hawaii football has played its home games at the Clarence Ching Athletics Complex, which has a seating capacity of only 15,194. Later this decade, Hawaii will have a new Aloha Stadium to call home, with a far bigger capacity for fans.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
