By Chris Licata
TicketNews.com

Prior to the 2001 football season Penn State’s Beaver Stadium had a capacity of 93,967 seats. Yet despite the fact that this capacity already put the facility near the top of the lists of largest stadiums in the country and world, the Nittany Lions decided to go bigger. In 2001 an end zone expansion project increased the capacity of Beaver Stadium to a massive 107,282 people – making it the second largest stadium in the country.

Resting in an area known as “Happy Valley,” Beaver Stadium was moved from its original site at Penn State in 1960 and had its capacity increased from 30,000 to 46,284 people. A series of expansions from 1969-1980 further increased its size to 83,770 seats and again in 1991 an upper deck addition over the northern end zone brought the number up to 90,000. Some of the more recent expansions have modernized the stadium to include a club level seating option of 4,000 seats as well as a brand new “Mount Nittany Lounge” located in the southern end of the stadium. . .