Aloha Stadium, Multi-purpose stadium site in Hālawa, Hawaii, United States
The Aloha Stadium is a multipurpose facility in Halawa, Hawaii, with 50,000 seats and an open roof that allows trade winds to pass through. The structure consists of several grandstand sections that sit on a concrete base and surround an oval playing field.
Aloha Stadium opened on September 12, 1975, built for $37 million, and the next day Hawaii lost to Texas A&I 43–9 before 32,247 fans. It hosted the Pro Bowl from 1980 to 2016, except 2010 and 2015, and the Hawaii Islanders played baseball there until 1987. The state closed it permanently on December 17, 2020, after corrosion damaged the steel structure, and demolition began in December 2025.
The Pro Bowl, the NFL's all-star game, was held at Aloha Stadium from 1980 to 2016, except in 2010 and 2015, when it moved to Miami and Glendale. Until 2009 it closed the season after the Super Bowl. The stadium also hosted the Hula Bowl and the Hawaiʻi Bowl, and its parking lot swap meet drew large crowds three times a week.
The site lies along the highway between Honolulu Airport and Pearl Harbor and is accessible by car or bus. The parking lot continues to host a swap meet that opens on Wednesdays and weekends.
Four movable grandstand sections, each weighing 3.5 million pounds, rode on air casters rather than rails, shifting into a diamond for baseball, an oval for football or a triangle for concerts. The system was locked permanently in the football configuration in January 2007; an engineer from Rolair Systems, the NASA spin-off that built it, blamed concrete pads laid against specifications.
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