The Rose Bowl Stadium, is an outdoor athletic place in Pasadena, California. The stadium is the home field of the UCLA Bruins football team during the season and the site of the Rose Bowl Game, a college football bowl game traditionally held on New Year's Day.
It hosted events during the 1932 and 1984 Olympics, and was the venue for the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, as well as five Super Bowl games. From 1999 until 2014, the Rose Bowl served as one of four host stadiums for the national championship game in the Bowl Championship Series. Beginning with the 2014 season, the stadium will serve as one of six stadiums that will serve as semi-final game sites in the College Football Playoff.
The natural grass playing field runs in a north–south configuration and sits at an elevation of 825 feet (251 m) above sea level. At a capacity of 92,542, the Rose Bowl is the 17th-largest stadium in the world, and the 11th-largest stadium in the United States (as well as the 11th-largest American football stadium and NCAA stadium). The stadium is a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Civil Engineering Landmark