Mosaic Stadium

About Mosaic Stadium

Mosaic Stadium anchors the REAL District of Regina, Saskatchewan, a 33,350-seat venue where the Saskatchewan Roughriders play CFL football, where the smallest major-league market in North America outside Green Bay sells out with a passion known as Rider Pride, and where a single orange seat among the sea of green stands as a permanent memorial to Indigenous children who never came home.

The Roughriders moved here on Canada Day 2017 from Taylor Field, their home for 106 years just across the way, trading a beloved old grandstand for a modern sunken bowl minutes from downtown. The move kept the Mosaic name, carried over from the old ground, and gave one of Canada’s most fervent fan bases a stadium to match. On game days the REAL District fills with green from morning on.

The Roughriders are community-owned, not privately held, and their fans are legendary across Canada. Regina’s metro population of roughly 263,500 makes it the smallest CFL market and the second-smallest professional sports market in North America, yet the stadium routinely sells out. Roughriders fans travel in such numbers that opposing stadiums across the country turn green on game days.

The stadium’s address tells its own story. In November 2019, 10th Avenue was renamed George Reed Way, and the address was changed to 1734, with “34” honoring the retired jersey number of the greatest Roughrider of all time.

Construction & Design

The design brief started with the wind. Regina sits on open prairie, and to shield fans from it, the architects sank the lower bowl 10 metres below ground level and wrapped a fixed PTFE tension-fabric canopy over the grandstand on three sides, leaving the south end zone open to the sky. The CA$278 million stadium was designed by HKS in joint venture with B+H Architects, and built by PCL Construction, on ground broken June 16, 2014. The City of Regina owns it, and the Regina Exhibition Association Limited (REAL) runs it as the centerpiece of the REAL District, the redevelopment of Regina’s old exhibition grounds into a year-round events precinct.

The building is quietly ambitious. It was engineered from the start to carry a full roof later, if the city ever wants one, and it was the first CFL stadium laid with FieldTurf Revolution 360. Thirty-eight executive suites and two levels of premium seating ring the bowl. The permanent capacity is 33,350, expandable to about 40,000 with temporary stands for a Grey Cup. For fans who spent decades on Taylor Field’s aluminum benches, the jump was enormous: wide concourses, weather protection, and sightlines drawn so the cheapest seat still sees the whole field. It is a big-league building dropped into a small-market city, and it wears that ambition proudly.

The stadium opened in two stages. A soft opening on October 1, 2016 put only the lower bowl in use, capped at 16,500, for a U Sports game between the Regina Rams and the Saskatchewan Huskies. The real launch came on Canada Day, July 1, 2017, when the Roughriders played their first regular-season CFL game there. It replaced Taylor Field, the team’s home for 106 years, a block away.

Getting to Mosaic Stadium

Public Transit

Regina Transit operates free shuttle buses for every Roughriders game and major stadium event.

The free shuttle is the best option on game days. It eliminates parking costs and traffic entirely.

Driving + Parking

The stadium address is 1734 George Reed Way, Regina, SK. Highway 1 (Trans-Canada) and Highway 11 are the primary approaches.

On-site REAL District parking costs CA$30 per vehicle on game days (purchasable in advance online). Additional paid parking on 10th Avenue and south of the Sportplex is first-come, first-served. Tailgating is a long-standing tradition, so arrive early with the barbecue and the green-and-white decorations.

Rideshare

Uber and taxis drop off at Princess Street and McTavish Street, north of the stadium. From downtown Regina, expect CA$8–$15. From the airport, about CA$5–$7 by taxi. Post-game surge pricing is common.

From the Airport

History of Mosaic Stadium

Before there was this Mosaic Stadium, there was Taylor Field, the Roughriders’ home for 106 years and the loudest patch of prairie in Canadian football. It hosted the 101st Grey Cup in 2013 before the wrecking crews came, closing a century of Saskatchewan football on the same block where the new stadium now stands. The Mosaic name simply moved across, carried over from the old ground under The Mosaic Company’s 20-year naming deal.

Taylor Field did not go quietly. Its final marquee act was the 101st Grey Cup in 2013, which the Roughriders won on home soil, sending the old ground out on the highest possible note before the move next door. When the new Mosaic Stadium opened in 2017, it inherited both the name and the weight of that history, a rare thing for a brand-new building.

Key moments in the stadium’s history:

• 2019 NHL Heritage Classic (October 26, 2019): The Winnipeg Jets beat the Calgary Flames 2-1 in overtime before 33,518 fans, the first NHL regular-season outdoor game in a neutral city with no NHL franchise, and the first NHL game in Saskatchewan since 1994.
• Seat of Truth (September 29, 2022): An orange seat was permanently installed among the green, never to be sold or occupied, honoring Indigenous children taken to residential schools who never returned home. The unveiling drew over 12,000 people.
• 109th Grey Cup (November 20, 2022): The Toronto Argonauts defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the first Grey Cup at the new stadium, bringing the championship game back to Regina for the first time since 2013.
• August 31, 2025: A crowd of 34,243 set the venue attendance record.

Few fan bases in North American sport travel like the Roughriders. Because Saskatchewan has no NHL or NBA franchise, the Riders are the whole province’s team, and “Rider Nation” fills sections in every visiting CFL stadium, watermelon helmets and all. That province-wide loyalty is what lets a market of roughly 260,000 punch like a city many times its size, and it is why Mosaic Stadium, for all its modern polish, still feels like the beating heart of Saskatchewan on an autumn Sunday. The green-and-white does not just show up. It takes over.

From Taylor Field’s 106 years to the Seat of Truth to Rider Pride filling every corner of the prairies, Mosaic Stadium is where Saskatchewan football lives, a community-owned venue in the smallest market in the league, where the fans are the owners and the street address is a tribute to its greatest player.

Sources & Further Reading

• Saskatchewan Roughriders: riderville.com. Primary tenant: game-day, tickets, and team history.
• REAL (Regina Exhibition Association): reginaexhibition.com. Stadium operator: events and venue information.
• Canadian Football League: cfl.ca. Grey Cup history and records.
• Mosaic Stadium on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org. Construction, capacity, and event history.