Get the catalog of stadiums and venues ESPN tracks for college football, with location, capacity-related flags, and addresses.
Value
A data frame with one row per venue:
| col_name | types | description |
| venue_id | character | ESPN venue id. |
| full_name | character | Venue full name (e.g. Tenney Stadium). |
| city | character | Venue city. |
| state | character | Venue state. |
| zip_code | character | Venue postal code. |
| country | character | Venue country. |
| grass | logical | TRUE if the playing surface is grass. |
| indoor | logical | TRUE if the venue is indoors. |
| venue_ref | character | $ref URL to the venue resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/venues.
The index is $ref-paginated and large (~911 venues). Dereferencing
every venue is hundreds of HTTP calls, so this wrapper caps the walk at
max_results venues (default 200) – raise it to pull more, or set it
high enough to harvest the whole catalog in one (slow) call. Pages are
walked in id order, so the same max_results always returns the same
prefix of the catalog.
See also
Other ESPN CFB Functions:
espn_cfb_award(),
espn_cfb_awards(),
espn_cfb_clear_cache(),
espn_cfb_coach(),
espn_cfb_coach_record(),
espn_cfb_coaches(),
espn_cfb_franchise(),
espn_cfb_franchises(),
espn_cfb_futures(),
espn_cfb_game_broadcasts(),
espn_cfb_game_drive_plays(),
espn_cfb_game_drives(),
espn_cfb_game_leaders(),
espn_cfb_game_odds(),
espn_cfb_game_pbp(),
espn_cfb_game_play(),
espn_cfb_game_player_box(),
espn_cfb_game_player_statistics(),
espn_cfb_game_powerindex(),
espn_cfb_game_predictor(),
espn_cfb_game_probabilities(),
espn_cfb_game_situation(),
espn_cfb_game_status(),
espn_cfb_game_team_leaders(),
espn_cfb_game_team_linescores(),
espn_cfb_game_team_records(),
espn_cfb_game_team_roster(),
espn_cfb_game_team_statistics(),
espn_cfb_game_teams(),
espn_cfb_groups(),
espn_cfb_pbp_v2(),
espn_cfb_player(),
espn_cfb_player_career_stats(),
espn_cfb_player_eventlog(),
espn_cfb_player_gamelog(),
espn_cfb_player_overview(),
espn_cfb_player_seasons(),
espn_cfb_player_splits(),
espn_cfb_player_stats_v3(),
espn_cfb_players(),
espn_cfb_position(),
espn_cfb_positions(),
espn_cfb_powerindex(),
espn_cfb_qbr(),
espn_cfb_rankings(),
espn_cfb_recruits(),
espn_cfb_season_info(),
espn_cfb_season_types(),
espn_cfb_season_weeks(),
espn_cfb_seasons(),
espn_cfb_standings(),
espn_cfb_team(),
espn_cfb_team_ats(),
espn_cfb_team_awards(),
espn_cfb_team_coaches(),
espn_cfb_team_events(),
espn_cfb_team_leaders(),
espn_cfb_team_powerindex(),
espn_cfb_team_ranks(),
espn_cfb_team_record(),
espn_cfb_team_roster(),
espn_cfb_team_schedule(),
espn_cfb_teams(),
espn_cfb_unnest_plays(),
espn_cfb_venue(),
espn_cfb_week_rankings()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(espn_cfb_venues(max_results = 50))
#> ── Venues index from ESPN ──────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:58:18 UTC
#> # A tibble: 50 × 9
#> venue_id full_name city state zip_code country grass indoor venue_ref
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <lgl> <lgl> <chr>
#> 1 36 Tenney Stadium Poug… NY 12601 USA FALSE FALSE http://s…
#> 2 150 Jack Coffey Fie… Bronx NY 10458 USA FALSE FALSE http://s…
#> 3 218 Riccardo Silva … Miami FL 33199 USA FALSE FALSE http://s…
#> 4 347 Camp Randall St… Madi… WI 53711 USA FALSE FALSE http://s…
#> 5 453 Robertson Stadi… Hous… TX 77004 USA FALSE TRUE http://s…
#> 6 477 Los Angeles Mem… Los … CA 90037 USA TRUE FALSE http://s…
#> 7 487 Saint Mary's St… Mora… CA NA USA FALSE FALSE http://s…
#> 8 499 Cotton Bowl Dall… TX 75215 USA TRUE FALSE http://s…
#> 9 538 Dignity Health … Cars… CA 90746 USA TRUE FALSE http://s…
#> 10 587 Rice-Eccles Sta… Salt… UT 84112 USA FALSE FALSE http://s…
#> # ℹ 40 more rows
# }