Tallahassee Sports

This page covers five venues: two university football stadiums, a civic center arena on West Pensacola Street, a Leon County cross country park and a City of Tallahassee park.

Two different governments run the public parks in this list. Apalachee Regional Park is a Leon County facility, with questions directed to Leon County Parks and Recreation at (850) 606-1470 (Leon County, Apalachee Regional Park), while Tom Brown Park is the City of Tallahassee's park, open sunrise to sunset (City of Tallahassee, Tom Brown Park). The two stadiums are university venues, and each school's athletics department is the source here only for its own stadium and schedule.

Each school has three Tallahassee home games left after October 18, 2026, and both play at home on Saturday, October 31 (FSU Athletics 2026 football schedule; FAMU Athletics 2026 football schedule).

Sources for the table: FSU Athletics 2026 football schedule and FAMU Athletics 2026 football schedule. FSU's page shows the Seminoles at 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the ACC after a double overtime loss at Miami on October 17 (FSU Athletics 2026 football schedule). FAMU's page shows the Rattlers at 2-5 overall and 1-2 in conference play, and lists its November 21 game against Bethune-Cookman at Camping World Stadium in Orlando rather than in Tallahassee (FAMU Athletics 2026 football schedule). For Doak game days, the Tucker Civic Center on West Pensacola Street lists 2026 FSU Football Parking from October 31 to November 27 with a Buy Tickets link in its event list (Donald L. Tucker Civic Center home page).

Doak Campbell Stadium seats 67,277 today, after a two year renovation that FSU unveiled before its 2025 season opener against Alabama, down from 79,560 in 2016-23 and 82,300 in 2003-15 (FSU Athletics, Doak Campbell Stadium page).

The stadium opened on October 7, 1950, with Florida State beating Randolph-Macon 40-7, and FSU lists its capacity at 15,000 from 1950 to 1953 and 55,107 for 2024 while the renovation was under way (FSU Athletics, Doak Campbell Stadium page). Bobby Bowden Field was dedicated before the Florida game on November 20, 2004, and the program's all time record at the stadium entering 2026 was 327-111-4 (FSU Athletics, Doak Campbell Stadium page). The renovation added new video boards in both end zones, the North board measuring 57 by 120 feet, along with club seating, chairback seats on the East side and restroom and ADA improvements (FSU Athletics, Doak Campbell Stadium page).

FSU's own page gives two different record crowds. Its largest crowds table ranks 84,409 on October 2, 2013 against Miami first, while its capacity history table lists the largest crowd of the 2003-15 era as 84,431 against Notre Dame on October 18, 2014 (FSU Athletics, Doak Campbell Stadium page). Both figures are reported here as FSU publishes them. The Doak Campbell Stadium history guide follows the stadium from 15,000 seats to the 2025 renovation.

It is FAMU's football stadium in Tallahassee, built in 1957 with state appropriations for an original 10,700 seats and listed today at 19,633 (FAMU Athletics, Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium page).

FAMU says the stadium is named for the father and son team of J.B. "Jubie" and Eugene Bragg, with Eugene Bragg coaching the Rattlers in the early 1930s and 1940s (FAMU Athletics, Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium page). The FAMU Board of Trustees unanimously approved the field name Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium on Thursday, June 8, 2023, on the athletics director's recommendation (FAMU Athletics release on the June 8, 2023 Board of Trustees vote). The stadium was renovated in 1980, 2021 and 2022, with the east bleachers redone in 2021, the west bleachers and press box in 2022, and a new north end zone video board in 2023 (FAMU Athletics, Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium page).

FAMU's list of highest attended home games starts with 33,954 against Morgan State in 1996 and 33,441 against Southern in 1997, both well above the 19,633 the university gives as current capacity (FAMU Athletics, Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium page). The Bragg Memorial Stadium guide covers the stadium from 1957 to the Ken Riley Field name in more depth.

Leon County's Apalachee Regional Park is, in the county's words, one of the nation's few sites designed specifically for cross country running (Leon County, Apalachee Regional Park).

The park at 7550 Apalachee Pkwy was the venue Leon County gave for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Tallahassee 26 on January 10, 2026, and the county's January 9 release said more than 450 runners would compete across five championship races (Leon County news release, January 9, 2026).

In the same release, County Administrator Vincent S. Long said that over the past 15 years Leon County had transformed an inactive landfill into a venue that had hosted more than 75 championship events, welcomed more than 80,000 athletes and generated over $84 million in direct visitor spending; those are the county's own figures (Leon County news release, January 9, 2026).

When no race is on, the Leon County course is open to the public for hiking, running and biking, and the park also has four multi purpose grass fields, two of them lighted, used for football, soccer and lacrosse, plus a remote control airplane and helicopter airfield (Leon County, Apalachee Regional Park).

The City of Tallahassee Parks and Recreation sports page lists youth and adult team sports by season, from tackle football and soccer for children to adult softball, basketball and beach volleyball (City of Tallahassee Parks and Recreation sports page).

The city's sports page lists youth baseball, basketball, cheerleading, flag football, soccer, softball, tackle football, track and volleyball, plus Miracle Sports for access for all, and adult baseball, basketball, beach volleyball in all four seasons, flag football, indoor volleyball and softball (City of Tallahassee Parks and Recreation sports page). It also lists other sports such as disc golf, pickleball, racquetball, skateboarding, swimming and tennis (City of Tallahassee Parks and Recreation sports page).

Tom Brown Park, which the City of Tallahassee calls its premier place to play, has numerous baseball and softball fields, tennis and racquetball courts, a pump track and a dog park, and it was dedicated on January 30, 1977, in honor of Thomas Irvin Brown, Jr., a Leon County Commissioner for 14 years (City of Tallahassee, Tom Brown Park). For arena events, the Tucker Civic Center at 505 W Pensacola St lists a WWE NXT show on October 24, 2026 and the Harlem Globetrotters on January 15, 2027 (Donald L. Tucker Civic Center home page).

Three Tallahassee sports guides each take one venue or tradition; the table matches each to its question.

Last verified: October 18, 2026, the day after FSU's game at Miami, using the two schools' 2026 football schedules and stadium pages, FAMU's 2023 naming release, Leon County's Apalachee Regional Park page and January 9 release, the city's Tom Brown Park and league pages, and the Tucker Civic Center event list.