Fred Anderson Field at Hornet Stadium is a 21,195-seat college football and track stadium on the campus of California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State). it is the home field of the Sacramento State Hornets of the Big Sky Conference. The field is named after local businessman and owner of the Sacramento Surge, Fred Anderson. Opened on September 20, 1969. It has also been the home stadium of the Sacramento Surge of the WLAF, the Sacramento Gold Miners of the Canadian Football League and the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League. It hosted the U.S. Olympic Trials for track and field in 2000 and 2004. Its alignment is nearly north-south, offset slightly northwest, and the street-level elevation is approximately 35 ft above sea level. The field was natural grass for its first 41 seasons; FieldTurf was installed in 2010.

Stadium improvements

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2008

2010

Proposed replacement

On September 26, 2024, Sacramento State President Luke Wood, athletic director Mark Orr, and Hornets football head coach Andy Thompson announced plans for a new 25,000-seat stadium to be built on the site of the current Hornet Stadium, with construction to begin at the end of the 2024 season. The venue would be designed by Populous and include student seating, premium seating, and boxes. The effort to replace Hornet Stadium comes as part of a push to elevate Sacramento State to the FBS level and gain entry to the Pac-12 Conference; the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto DMA is the 20th-largest media market in the nation and would be the second-largest in the Pac-12. Following the announcement, a group of local business and political leaders, named the SAC 12, announced that it had raised $35 million in NIL funds to support the effort; the group includes California State Senators Angelique Ashby and Melissa Hurtado, Assemblymembers Stephanie Nguyen and Joe Patterson, and Hornet football alum and former San Francisco 49er Otis Amey, among others.

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