| Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field is an outdoor football stadium located on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. It is home to the Arizona State Sun Devils of the Pacific-10 Conference and was the home of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals from 1988 to 2005. The stadium's current seating capacity is 73,379 and the playing surface is natural grass.
Built in 1958, the stadium's original capacity was just 30,000. The first addition in 1976 substantially raised the capacity to 57,722. Seating was added to the south end of the stadium, along with press and sky boxes. A year later, in 1977, the upper tier was completed to bring seating to 70,491. In 1988, 1,700 more seats were added to bring the facility to its current capacity. During that time the Carson Student Athlete Center was added to the south end. The building is the home of the ASU Athletic Department.
The first game played at the stadium was on October 4, 1958. Arizona State defeated West Texas State 16-13.
On September 21, 1996, the playing surface was named in honor of former ASU football coaching great Frank Kush, and the name of the stadium was changed from Sun Devil Stadium to Sun Devil Stadium, Frank Kush Field. The largest crowd ever seated for a college football game at the stadium was 74,963 for an ASU-Cal game won by the Sun Devils, 35-7, on November 9, 1996.
Sun Devil Stadium hosted college football's Fiesta Bowl from 1971 to 2006. ASU continues to use Sun Devil Stadium, which will now host the Insight Bowl, moving from Chase Field, the home field of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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