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Oliver C. Dawson Stadium

Everything the open record has on Oliver C. Dawson Stadium, a stadium in Columbia, South Carolina — address, size, access and the events it carries. It seats a stated 22,000.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Stated capacity
22,000
people, as published
Opened
1955
71 years old
From CAE
55 km (34 mi)
Columbia Metropolitan Airport
From the centre
59 km (36 mi)
of Columbia

Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.

What the record holds

It sits in Columbia, 59 km (36 mi) from the centre of Columbia.

Oliver C. Dawson Stadium was opened in 1955 and operated by South Carolina State University, which puts it at 71 years old.

22,000 seats is arena scale, so it works as a plenary room with breakouts hosted nearby.

Operator
South Carolina State University
Owner
South Carolina State University
Coordinates
33.4986, -80.8446
Classified as
stadium

How attendees reach it

55 km (34 mi) to Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) is far enough to change the shape of the programme: a first morning session will lose the people who flew in that day.

59 km (36 mi) from the centre puts this outside comfortable walking range of any hotel district, so the shuttle is part of the event rather than an extra.

Columbia has 51 venues mapped in total and a population of 144,788. The Columbia guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

Programming it

Anything at this scale is a one-room event. It is the 2nd largest arena or stadium mapped in Columbia, and like all of them it solves the plenary and none of the rest of the programme.

  • award ceremonies

    A stage, a bowl of seats and a control room already in place.

  • festivals

    An audience of 22,000 is festival scale, not conference scale.

  • company all-hands

    One room, everybody in it, nobody watching on a screen in an overflow space.

What event67 costs at this capacity

Take 950 people through the door in Oliver C. Dawson Stadium — sized to the stated capacity of Oliver C. Dawson Stadium. The first 50 activated attendees are free on every event, so only the rest are billed, and the total stops moving at 1,000 however many more turn up.

activated attendees
950activated attendees
billable, after the first 50 are free
900billable, after the first 50 are free
for the whole event, at $5 each
$4,500for the whole event, at $5 each

You are billed for people, not for the room, so this figure does not change if you move the event down the road. event67 has no floor-plan or booking product — the venue handles the space, the app handles the people in it.

1,000
activated attendees at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

Elsewhere in Columbia

4 other venues in Columbia have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.

Where these numbers come from

event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

  • Wikidata, CC0
  • OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 8 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, operator, owner, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance, photograph on Wikimedia Commons.

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What it costs

Free up to 50
activated attendees, on one live event
$5
per activated attendee beyond 50
$4,750
the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000

Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

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Questions people actually ask

How many people does Oliver C. Dawson Stadium hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 22,000 for Oliver C. Dawson Stadium. That figure is what the venue or an encyclopaedia entry published, and it is usually the maximum seated number — theatre, banquet and reception layouts in the same room can differ by half. Confirm the layout you want directly with the venue.

What does an event app cost for an event at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium?

950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. That example is sized to the stated capacity of Oliver C. Dawson Stadium. The rate is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

Is event67 affiliated with Oliver C. Dawson Stadium?

No. event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and public census sources — and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

What else is nearby if Oliver C. Dawson Stadium is booked?

Williams-Brice Stadium (80,250), Colonial Life Arena (18,000) and Carolina Coliseum (12,401) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 51 venues in total are mapped in Columbia.

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