BC Place could see biggest Lions playoff crowd in 13 years this weekend
It wasn’t easy, but the BC Lions accomplished their goal of hosting a playoff game at BC Place.
Despite being in danger of missing the playoffs in September with a 5-7 record, the Lions ripped off six straight wins to end the season. BC needed a win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders last week to clinch second place in the West Division, and they got that thanks to a fourth-quarter touchdown pass by Nathan Rourke.
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The Lions will host the Stampeders on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 2:30 p.m. at BC Place.
The upper bowl has been opened for the game, and tickets up in that section can be purchased for as little as $25.
A quick look at Ticketmaster shows that tickets are in short supply in the lower bowl. Upper bowl seats are available on one side of the stadium.
“Tickets are moving well,” a Lions spokesperson told Daily Hive.
Not many tickets left in the lower bowl (Ticketmaster)
Based on the recent uptick in attendance, the Lions have a chance to have their largest home playoff crowd since 2012.
BC has hosted just three home playoff games since winning the Grey Cup in 2011. While they’re unlikely to see 43,216 tickets sold like they did for the West Final against the Stamps in 2012, they could conceivably surpass the reported crowd of 30,149 fans that witnessed the Lions defeat Calgary in the 2023 West Semi-Final.
The other playoff game BC hosted in that time frame was back in 2016, when only 19,176 fans watched Jonathan Jennings and the Lions come from behind to beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 32-31.
BC nearly hit the 30,000-fan threshold the last time they hosted Calgary on Oct. 16, when 28,308 fans watched them beat the Stampeders.
Rourke and the Lions are trying to snap the longest Grey Cup drought in the CFL, as every other team in the league has made it to the championship final at least once since 2011.