About Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium in Pasadena, California, United States. Opened in October 1922, the stadium is recognized as a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. It has a modern capacity of 92,542, making it the 16th-largest stadium in the world.
It is best known as the host of the annual Rose Bowl Game, "The Granddaddy of Them All," the oldest bowl game in college football. It has also hosted five Super Bowls. It is the home stadium of the UCLA Bruins football team. The stadium hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final.
The stadium's design is a classic single-tier bowl, set within the Arroyo Seco, providing a beautiful natural setting. The "Rose Bowl" name comes from the bowl shape and the Rose Tournament. Its vast size and open design make it an iconic venue for both sports and massive concerts.
The ground is owned by the City of Pasadena through the Rose Bowl Operating Company (RBOC), a municipal non-profit corporation chartered on 3 October 1994 to manage the venue's booking calendar and capital-maintenance programme separately from general municipal finances. The 24-hectare plot at 1001 Rose Bowl Drive in the Arroyo Seco canyon was purchased from the Busch family in 1922 for 27,000 US dollars of the day and the original open-ended horseshoe design by architect Myron Hunt was closed into a full oval in 1928 at a supplementary cost of 200,000 dollars. Ownership of the ground carries with it the freehold of the adjacent Brookside Golf Course, a 36-hole municipal course that generates approximately 3.2 million dollars per year in green-fee revenue used to cross-subsidise stadium maintenance under a 1963 city-council ordinance still in force.