Foley Field
The $45 million renovation of Foley Field that began in 2024 and concluded in 2025 has continued to elevate both the player and fan experience at UGA’s baseball facility, often referred to as the Wrigley Field of the SEC.
With an updated capacity of 3,633, the ballpark has a neighborhood feel that rivals any of its league counterparts in terms of fan experience and entertainment. Fans can feel like their right on top of the action with excellent sight lines throughout the facility. There’s even a field level premium area behind home plate that stretches to each dugout.
The Player Development features include:
*A new pitching lab and hitting tunnels with the latest technology,
*A weight room, nutrition station and coaches’ office
*The entire playing field along with foul territory now features a new AstroTurf surface.
*The two-year project began in 2024 when the Bulldogs enjoyed a new locker room and team meeting room plus the facility added stadium LED lights.
Overall, fans have new seating options, enhanced experiences throughout the venues plus multiple new premium spaces. The stadium area is covered seating except for a new, small section down the third base line past the Bulldog dugout.
The large-scale measures of the 2015 revival of the facility included the following: Redesigning the stadium’s main entrance, additional restrooms and concession areas, an expanded press box, club-level and field-level seating, improvements to the dugouts, Georgia’s locker room and team lounge, training room and batting cages. In 2013, improvements to Foley Field included the right field area formerly known as “Kudzu Hill,” (now the Garden Club Terrace), the installation of a new high-definition video scoreboard and new trees behind the outfield fence.Foley Field has served as a memorable postseason advantage for the Bulldogs. Georgia is 29-13 in the NCAA postseason in Athens including 18-3 in elimination games. Bulldog fans have witnessed Georgia clinch trips to the College World Series in 2001, 2006 and 2008. Also, the Bulldogs won an NCAA Regional at Foley Field in 2004 and eventually advanced to the CWS that year too.
Georgia's latest NCAA Regional win at Foley Field came in 2024 and then it played host to an NCAA Super Regional.
It is located by the right field fence and features Parker, Copas and Powell. Members of the Parker, Copas and Powell families, along with J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Greg McGarity were in attendance at the dedication ceremony. Then, they all cheered on the Bulldogs to a 12-4 win over No. 21 Alabama.
After World War II, the Diamond Dogs played on a field with no name located on “Ag. Hill,” where Stegeman Coliseum is today. When construction for the Coliseum began in 1962, Georgia moved to its freshman field, which is next to where the Butts-Mehre building is now. In 1966, Georgia moved to its current location, and two years later, it was named Foley Field. On May 5, 1990, a $3.5 million refurbished Foley Field was dedicated. The next major upgrades came in 2015 and the most recent project was completed over a two-year span from 2024-25.
| Top 10 Crowds at Foley Field (since 1990 renovation) |
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| Crowd | Date | UGA Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,461 | 3/21/09 | #3 #25 Miss. State | W, 4-0 |
| 4,302 | 6/12/06 | #6 #15 South Carolina | W, 11-6 |
| 4,290 | 6/02/01 | #7 #10 Florida State | W, 8-7(10) |
| 4,212 | 6/03/01 | #7 #10 Florida State | L, 11-6 |
| 4,183 | 4/23/24 | #17 #4 Clemson | W, 4-3 (15) |
| 4,128 | 4/5/16 | NR #12 Clemson | L, 11-6 |
| 4,092 | 4/4/08 | #1 #2 LSU | W, 10-8 |
| 4,077 | 4/14/09 | #1 #10 Georgia Tech | L, 11-6 |
| 4,058 | 2/21/01 | #15 #1 Georgia Tech | L, 10-8 |
| 4,027 | 5/3/24 | #18 #13 Vanderbilt | W, 10-0 |
(since 1990 renovation)
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