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{{Short description|Stadium in Washington, D.C.}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox venue
| stadium_name = Cooper Field
| logo_image = Georgetown_Hoyas_logo.svg
| logo_upright = 0.15
| image = Cooper Field and Rafik B. Hariri Building.jpg
| caption = Cooper Field in 2022, with the [[McDonough School of Business|business school]] to the right
| location = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| coordinates = {{coord|38.908016|-77.07532|type:landmark_region:US-DC|display=inline,title|format=dms}}
| opened = {{start date and age|2005}}
| owner = [[Georgetown University]]
| surface = [[Artificial turf]]
| construction_cost = $22 million
| architect = Hughes Group Architects
| former_names = {{unbulleted list | Harbin Field (2002–2004) | Multi-Sport Field (2005–2015) }}
| tenants = [[Georgetown Hoyas]] ([[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]]) teams:
{{hlist | [[Georgetown Hoyas football|Football]] | [[Georgetown Hoyas men's lacrosse|Men's lacrosse]] | [[Georgetown Hoyas women's lacrosse|Women's lacrosse]] }}
| seating_capacity = 4,418
| website = {{URL|https://guhoyas.com/sports/2018/6/6/facilities-gu-cooper-field-html.aspx|guhoyas.com/cooperfield}}
}}
'''Cooper Field''',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.guhoyas.com/facilities/gu-cooper-field.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606031248/http://www.guhoyas.com/facilities/gu-cooper-field.html |archive-date=2017-06-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> formerly known as '''Harbin Field''' and '''Multi-Sport Field''', is a 4,418-seat [[multi-purpose stadium]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], on the campus of [[Georgetown University]]. The field was originally used for intramurals and was adopted for soccer in 1994 as Harbin Field. The name was changed to "Multi-Sport Field", a placeholder pending final construction, to reflect the football team's use of the field starting in 2003. In 2015, Georgetown changed the name to Cooper Field in honor of a $50 million gift from [[Georgetown Hoyas football|Georgetown football]] parents Peter and Susan Cooper which funded athletic leadership programs at Georgetown and construction upgrades to the field.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Clarke|first1=Liz|title=Georgetown athletics will receive $50 million gift from California couple|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/georgetown-athletics-will-receive-50-million-gift-from-california-couple/2015/10/06/4aabe678-6c5c-11e5-aa5b-f78a98956699_story.html|access-date=10 October 2015|work=Newspaper|publisher=Washington Post|date=6 October 2015}}</ref>

== Unfinished construction ==
[[File:Cooper Field.jpg|thumb|left|Cooper Field and its surroundings]]

The field has been awaiting further construction since 2005, when work was halted on completing permanent bleachers and other facilities. As a result, it remains the smallest stadium in all of [[Division I (NCAA)|NCAA Division I]] Football Bowl Subdivision or Football Championship subdivisions.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/sports/ncaafootball/georgetown-trying-to-get-football-program-righted.html |title= Obstacles Nothing New for Georgetown Football |first= Tom |last= Flynn |date= November 15, 2012 |access-date= July 11, 2014 |work= The New York Times}}</ref>

During the 2018 and 2019 seasons, attendance was reduced to 1,800 pending ongoing construction.

Several of the school athletics teams play home games there, including the [[Georgetown Hoyas football|Hoyas football team]], the men's and [[Georgetown Hoyas women's lacrosse|women's lacrosse]] teams, the women's field hockey team, and the [[Georgetown University Rugby Football Club]]. The professional [[Chesapeake Bayhawks|Washington Bayhawks]] of [[Major League Lacrosse]] used the field for most of their games during the 2007 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.insidelacrosse.com/threads/mll-stadiums-2007.76398/|title=MLL Stadiums 2007|publisher=Inside Lacrosse|date=March 5, 2007}}</ref> Lights were installed on the field in early 2009. The surface is artificial, made of [[FieldTurf]].

==See also==
* [[List of NCAA Division I FCS football stadiums]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{official website}}

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