Football Facility Tours

Guests to campus on home football weekends have special opportunities to get a sneak peek inside some of the areas usually reserved for Notre Dame football players and coaches only. Both the Friday Tunnel Tour and Saturday’s LaBar Practice Field Open House are free and open to the public. Come get a taste of just what it’s like to wear the gold helmets and call yourself a Notre Dame football player.

Friday Tunnel Tour

10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. on Football Fridays (except during team walk-throughs)

Since 1931, every Notre Dame football team has walked down the same tunnel, to the same field before every home football game. On Fridays of football weekends, Game Day Operations and Athletics is proud to give every Irish fan the opportunity to walk the same fabled walk every Irish player has taken for the past 80 years. Come experience the North Tunnel of Notre Dame Stadium, take pictures with the field in the background, and feel the echoes waiting to be awoke. Free and open to the public.

Saturday LaBar Practice Field Open House

10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. on Football Saturdays

Due to the great generosity of the LaBar family, Notre Dame Football opened a brand new outdoor practice facility prior to the 2008 season. With three neighboring fields (two FieldTurf, one natural grass), LaBar Fields are the gem of college football practice facilities. Come visit where the Irish football team prepares each week and view the nationwide benchmark for football practice facilities.

The LaBar Practice Fields are located just south of the Gugliemino Football Complex.