COLUMBIA, Mo. — With tickets limited to Mizzou season ticket holders, MU students and visiting fans, attendance at Memorial Stadium for Saturday's season opener against No. 2 Alabama will top out at 11,700, MU officials confirmed Thursday.
Mizzou has sold all available tickets for Saturday's 6 p.m. game under its socially distanced redesigned seating plan, which puts the stadium's temporary capacity close to 19 percent of its normal capacity of 61,620. At one point MU projected 25-percent capacity for home games this year.
With a maximum of 11,700 expected for Saturday, that will mark the first time Mizzou announces an attendance less than 20,000 since the 1959 season, when 15,000 was the attendance for a Nov.