Cooper Field

{{Short description|Stadium in Washington, D.C.}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox venue

| stadium_name = Cooper Field

| logo_image = Georgetown_Hoyas_logo.svg

| logo_upright = 0.15

| image = Cooper Field and Rafik B. Hariri Building.jpg

| caption = Cooper Field in 2022, with the business school to the right

| location = Washington, D.C., U.S.

| coordinates = {{coord|38.908016|-77.07532|type:landmark_region:US-DC|display=inline,title|format=dms}}

| opened = {{start date and age|2005}}

| owner = Georgetown University

| surface = Artificial turf

| construction_cost = $22 million

| architect = Hughes Group Architects

| former_names = {{unbulleted list | Harbin Field (2002–2004) | Multi-Sport Field (2005–2015) }}

| tenants = Georgetown Hoyas (NCAA) teams:

{{hlist | Football | Men's lacrosse | Women's lacrosse }}

| seating_capacity = 4,418

| website = {{URL|https://guhoyas.com/sports/2018/6/6/facilities-gu-cooper-field-html.aspx|guhoyas.com/cooperfield}}

}}

Cooper Field,{{Cite web |url=http://www.guhoyas.com/facilities/gu-cooper-field.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606031248/http://www.guhoyas.com/facilities/gu-cooper-field.html |archive-date=2017-06-06 |url-status=dead }} formerly known as Harbin Field and Multi-Sport Field, is a 4,418-seat multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C., on the campus of Georgetown University. The field was originally used for intramurals and was adopted for soccer in 1994 as Harbin Field. The name was changed to "Multi-Sport Field", a placeholder pending final construction, to reflect the football team's use of the field starting in 2003. In 2015, Georgetown changed the name to Cooper Field in honor of a $50 million gift from Georgetown football parents Peter and Susan Cooper which funded athletic leadership programs at Georgetown and construction upgrades to the field.{{cite news|last1=Clarke|first1=Liz|title=Georgetown athletics will receive $50 million gift from California couple|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/georgetown-athletics-will-receive-50-million-gift-from-california-couple/2015/10/06/4aabe678-6c5c-11e5-aa5b-f78a98956699_story.html|access-date=10 October 2015|work=Newspaper|publisher=Washington Post|date=6 October 2015}}

Unfinished construction

File:Cooper Field.jpg

The field has been awaiting further construction since 2005, when work was halted on completing permanent bleachers and other facilities. As a result, it remains the smallest stadium in all of NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision or Football Championship subdivisions.{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/sports/ncaafootball/georgetown-trying-to-get-football-program-righted.html |title= Obstacles Nothing New for Georgetown Football |first= Tom |last= Flynn |date= November 15, 2012 |access-date= July 11, 2014 |work= The New York Times}}

During the 2018 and 2019 seasons, attendance was reduced to 1,800 pending ongoing construction.

Several of the school athletics teams play home games there, including the Hoyas football team, the men's and women's lacrosse teams, the women's field hockey team, and the Georgetown University Rugby Football Club. The professional Washington Bayhawks of Major League Lacrosse used the field for most of their games during the 2007 season.{{cite web|url=http://forums.insidelacrosse.com/threads/mll-stadiums-2007.76398/|title=MLL Stadiums 2007|publisher=Inside Lacrosse|date=March 5, 2007}} Lights were installed on the field in early 2009. The surface is artificial, made of FieldTurf.

See also

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