Roy Stewart Stadium
A stadium in Murray, Kentucky. It seats a stated 16,800. This page collects the address, the access and the capacity figures an organizer needs before a site visit.
- Stated capacity
- 16,800
- people, as published
- Opened
- 1973
- 53 years old
- From PAH
- 63 km (39 mi)
- Barkley Regional Airport
- From the centre
- 1.2 km (0.7 mi)
- of Murray
Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.
The building
It sits in Murray, right in the centre of Murray.
Roy Stewart Stadium was opened in 1973 and operated by Murray State University, which puts it at 53 years old.
A stated 16,800 puts this in arena territory: general sessions and keynotes fit, breakouts need somewhere else.
- Operator
- Murray State University
- Coordinates
- 36.6213, -88.3176
- Classified as
- stadium
Access and arrival
At 63 km (39 mi), Barkley Regional Airport (PAH) makes arrival day a travel day. Open registration the evening before if you can.
A central address is worth more than it looks: no shuttle, no parking plan, and evening sessions that people actually stay for.
Murray has 11 venues mapped in total and a population of 18,567. The Murray guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.
The kind of event it takes
A room this size is a plenary and nothing else. Keynotes, awards and general sessions work; the breakouts, the exhibition and the catering all have to happen somewhere else, so the venue is really the anchor of a campus rather than the whole event.
- award ceremonies
A stage, a bowl of seats and a control room already in place.
- festivals
An audience of 16,800 is festival scale, not conference scale.
- company all-hands
One room, everybody in it, nobody watching on a screen in an overflow space.
The app bill, at this size
A Roy Stewart Stadium programme at 950 activated attendees — sized to the stated capacity of Roy Stewart Stadium — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.
- 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.
Other rooms in Murray
3 other venues in Murray have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.
- CFSB Center8,602 seats
- Graham Stadium8,500 seats
- Racer Arena5,550 seats
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. 7 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, operator, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance, photograph on Wikimedia Commons.
Last updated
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.
Questions people actually ask
How many people does Roy Stewart Stadium hold?
Open data records a stated capacity of 16,800 for Roy Stewart 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 Roy Stewart 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 Roy Stewart 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 Roy Stewart 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 Roy Stewart Stadium is booked?
CFSB Center (8,602), Graham Stadium (8,500) and Racer Arena (5,550) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 11 venues in total are mapped in Murray.
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Elsewhere in Murray
- CFSB Center
8,602 seats
- Graham Stadium
8,500 seats
- Racer Arena
5,550 seats
- Hosting an event in Murray
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