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Thomas Robinson Stadium

Football stadium in Nassau, Bahamas

Field	Value
name	Thomas Robinson Stadium
fullname	Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium
location	Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre, Nassau, Bahamas
image	Tommy Robinson National Stadium.jpg
caption	The stadium in 2012
coordinates
built	1981
opened	1981
renovated	2005 for the CAC Championship
2014 for the IAAF World Relays
expanded	February 23, 2012
owner	Bahamas Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture
surface	Grass
tenants	Bahamas national football team
College of the Bahamas
Bahamas Bowl (2014–present)
seating_capacity	15,023 (expandable to 23,000)

2014 for the IAAF World Relays College of the Bahamas Bahamas Bowl (2014–present)

Thomas Robinson Stadium, officially Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Nassau, Bahamas. The largest stadium in the country, it is used primarily for soccer matches. The stadium is also the home of the Bahamas Bowl, an annual NCAA Division I college football (American football) bowl game.

The stadium has a capacity of 15,000 people, and can be expanded to hold 23,000 people. It is named after Thomas A. Robinson, a sprinter who represented the Bahamas internationally at the Empire and Commonwealth Games and four summer Olympic Games.

Bahamas national football team

On 22 August 2011, the Bahamas national football team was withdrawn by FIFA from the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Some days later, Bahamas Football Association current president Anton Sealey said the reason was the incomplete construction of the Thomas Robinson Stadium project in Nassau.

Bahamas Bowl (NCAA)

Main article: Bahamas Bowl

The Bahamas Bowl is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sanctioned bowl game in American college football at the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level, first played in December 2014 at Thomas Robinson Stadium. Through the January 2025 playing, each game has involved a team from Conference USA (C-USA), with all but one of their opponents coming from the Mid-American Conference (MAC). Due to renovations at the stadium, the December 2023 edition of the bowl was played at an alternate site, Jerry Richardson Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was named for a local sponsor (Famous Toastery) of that contest.

IAAF World Relays

In 2014, Thomas Robinson Stadium served as the host of the inaugural IAAF World Relays, a relay athletics meet organized by the IAAF. A new Mondo track was installed for the competition. The Stadium also hosted the 2015 and 2017 IAAF World Relays, and had hosted the 2024 World Athletics Relays.

References

http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/bis-news-updates/National_Stadium_will_provide_economic_opportunities_for_The_Bahamas_printer.shtml ... capacity to be expanded to accommodate 23,000 seats
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/news/123/ARTICLE/20122/2009-07-24.html{{dead link. (January 2018)
http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=52345.html ...The stadium in Nassau was named after him in 1981
Lee, Hank. (October 26, 2023). "The Bahamas Bowl Will Be Played in Charlotte This Year. Here's Why". WCNC.
(14 November 2023). "Famous Toastery Named Title Sponsor of ESPN Events’ Charlotte Bowl Game". [[ESPN]].
"Stadium renovations on target for the World Relays".

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