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Protective Stadium is a football stadium owned and operated by the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. [2] [3] Since its opening in 2021, the stadium has been named for Protective Life, a financial service holding company based in Birmingham, which pays $1 million per year as part of a 15-year naming rights deal. [4]
A new stadium, Protective Stadium, has been the home of the Blazers starting from the 2021 season. The new stadium's capacity is over 47,000. [2] The UAB football program was terminated after the 2014 season but was reinstated shortly thereafter. [3] [4] The team went on hiatus for two seasons before returning in 2017. UAB won both its first ...
The new stadium -- part of a convention center redevelopment project -- could open in 2021. UAB football returned from a two-year hiatus in 2017.
The following is an incomplete list of current American football stadiums in the USA ranked by capacity. All stadiums in the list are located in the United States . The list contains the home stadiums of all 32 professional teams playing in the NFL as well as the largest stadiums used by college football teams in the NCAA .
Protective Stadium. UAB began its football program in the early 1990s. Jim Hilyer was the first head coach of the Blazers, coaching from 1991 to 1994. Beginning with the first NCAA sanctioned Division III football team in 1991, UAB joined Division I-AA in 1993 and moved to Division I-A in 1996, joining Conference USA in 1999.
Super Bowl champion Trent Dilfer was hired to coach UAB in November. Here's how the Super Bowl champion ended up in Alabama coaching college football.
A radio appearance by UAB's Trent Dilfer and a social media post from Tulane coach Jon Sumrall shed some light on college football's NIL landscape.
The 2024 UAB Blazers football team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the American Athletic Conference (AAC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Blazers were led by Trent Dilfer in his second year as the head coach.