Ratliff Stadium is a stadium in Odessa, Texas. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field for the city's two public high schools, Odessa and Permian High Schools.

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Ratliff Stadium

Location	Odessa, Texas
Owner	Ector County Independent School District
Capacity	17,931
Surface	Matrix Turf
Construction
Opened	1982
Construction cost	US$5.6 million
Tenants
Permian High Panthers Odessa High Bronchos Texas–Permian Basin Falcons

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The stadium opened in 1982 and holds 17, 931 people (capacity was reduced from the original 19,302 people when additional handicapped seating and accommodations were added in 2008). It was the stadium used during filming of most of the football action in the 2004 movie Friday Night Lights, an adaptation of a 1990 book about Permian's 1988 football season.

As of 2015, Ratliff Stadium also serves as the home game venue for the University of Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB) Falcons Football team.^[1]

Other events held at Ratliff Stadium have included track and field, soccer, marching band contests, and graduation ceremonies.