Sections 501 to 536, and the one end that uses letters
The section number tells you the level before it tells you anything else. Level 5, the premium deck, runs 501 to 536 — thirty-six sections, complete and unbroken, with no gap anywhere in the range. The same rule holds above and below it: Cusack 313 and Hogan 333 are Level 3, Davin 724 is Level 7. Read the leading digit and you know which deck you are on before you have worked out which stand you are in.
Hill 16 breaks the pattern completely. Formally the Dineen Stand, it is divided into Sections A, B and C — lettered rather than numbered, and sitting on different floor levels, so there is no leading digit to read and the rule that governs the rest of the ground simply does not apply at that end.
Turnstiles are lettered as well, and they are not sections. The Cusack A2 gate sits between the Block C and Block D turnstiles — letters that identify a way in, not a place to sit. The two systems are easy to conflate, and doing so puts you on the wrong side of the ground, so it is worth reading your ticket for which of the two it is naming.
Cusack, Hogan and Davin are fully seated, each with a lower and an upper tier. Hill 16 and the Nally Terrace are terraced and standing only — which is the structural fact underneath the capacity question further down this page.
One thing has to be said plainly: the GAA publish no per-stand section list in text anywhere. The interactive stadium plan is an HTML5 canvas, and its only text is the line telling you your browser cannot render it. Everything above was recovered from a premium level plan and a facilities page rather than from a seating plan, because no seating plan in readable form exists. That absence is worth knowing before trusting a section map elsewhere: every other site publishes one, and none of them can be reading it off the GAA.
If the leading-digit rule is new to you, the conventions most grounds share covers the conventions grounds tend to share.
No away end, because the sport does not have them
Gaelic games do not segregate supporters, so Croke Park has no away section — not an unpublished one, not a variable one, none. There is no away allocation, no segregated approach to the ground, and no rule about the colours you arrive in. Supporters of both counties sit and stand among each other, wherever their tickets happen to put them.
This catches people out because football conventions do not transfer. A visiting supporter at a Premier League ground is allocated specific blocks, enters through a specific turnstile and is often told what not to wear. At an All-Ireland none of that applies. Mixed support is the norm the sport is built around rather than a concession it makes, which is why the question this page answers for every other ground has no answer here — and why the absence is a fact about Gaelic games rather than a gap in the research.
€18 for the stadium, €24 for the roof
The Croke Park Stadium Tour is €18.00 for an adult, €12.00 for a child aged 3 to 12, and €14.50 for a student or senior with valid ID. A family ticket starts at €48.00. It is an access-all-areas route taking in the dressing rooms and a pitch viewpoint, and admission to the GAA Museum is included afterwards rather than sold separately.
The Kellogg's Skyline Tour is a separate product and priced separately: €24.00 for an adult and €22.00 for a student or senior. It is booked online in advance only, the minimum age is 12, and you are asked to arrive ten minutes before departure. The route runs 17 storeys up to what Croke Park call Dublin's highest open-viewing platform, across six named viewing points. Croke Park sell and price it separately from the Stadium Tour, and it is booked through its own page rather than as an add-on to one.
Both book through bookings.gaamuseum.ie, and both depart from the Cusack Stand, reached from St Joseph's Avenue off Clonliffe Road.
Neither tour publishes a duration. Not on the tours index, not on the stadium tour page, and not on the Skyline page — three official pages that price the products precisely and never say how long either takes. That is unusual enough to state rather than fill in: the honest answer to how long a Croke Park tour lasts is that the GAA do not say.
Neither tour publishes a duration, so what to check before you book covers the questions to ask instead.
No car park at the ground, and five nearby that publish a price
There is no onsite car park for general spectators on a matchday. That is the whole of the answer at the ground itself, and it is worth stating plainly because the alternative — five separate off-site options at five different prices — is easy to mistake for the stadium having parking of its own.
For a match, everything published is off-site. O'Connell Schools' on the North Circular Road is the closest supervised option at 300 spaces: €10.00 for championship matches and concerts, €8.00 for league games and €5.00 for school finals, with no booking required. It opens two hours before an event and closes one hour after.
In the city centre, Park Rite is €5.00 on event days on production of a match ticket. Q-Park Clerys is €6.00 between 9am and 8pm or €8.00 for up to 24 hours, and must be booked. Jervis Shopping Centre is €3.00 an hour or €13.00 a day. The Mater Hospital car park is bookable in advance only. The National Museum of Ireland has seven designated blue badge spaces.
One restriction applies regardless of where you park: coaches may not drop off or pick up on the main arterial routes, and Croke Park state that this is enforced by the Garda Traffic Corps on event days.
82,300 against 82,006, in the same GAA document
The GAA state Croke Park's capacity as 82,300, and this page leads with that figure. The same organisation's 2025 annual congress report also prints 82,006 under the heading "Overall Capacity" — in the same document, 294 below the number in its own text.
No reason is given for the gap, and none is offered here. Several explanations are available and every one of them is a guess: the two standing terraces, media positions, accessible platforms. Hill 16 and the Nally Terrace are indeed standing rather than seated, and neither carries a published standing capacity of its own — which makes the terraces the most tempting explanation and is exactly the reason to resist it. The GAA publish no breakdown reconciling the two figures, so attributing the 294 to anything would be this site inventing an answer the source does not contain.
What can be said is narrower and firmer. Both figures are the GAA's own rather than a third party's summary of them, they appear in one document rather than in two published years apart, and the organisation does not acknowledge the difference anywhere in it. A ground this size carrying an unexplained 294-seat discrepancy inside a single official report is the finding.
A governing body contradicting itself inside one document is the sharpest version of a familiar problem; a ground does not have one capacity covers the ordinary version.
St Joseph's Avenue, and where the pin comes from
The entrance the tours use is on St Joseph's Avenue off Clonliffe Road. The GAA publish no coordinate on any page cited here, so the pin below comes from OpenStreetMap rather than from them — object way/564099741, which OSM classifies as leisure/stadium. That check is the point rather than a formality: the same query returns the National Handball Centre next door as its second result, and a pin on that would have looked just as convincing while being the wrong building.
View Croke Park on OpenStreetMap
53.36036, -6.25098
Test yourself
Croke Park's section numbers start with the level. Which end breaks the rule?
Show the answer
Hill 16. Formally the Dineen Stand, it is lettered A, B and C across different floor levels, so there is no leading digit to read.
Croke Park, services and facilities, read — source
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Croke Park, accessibility, accepted · Croke Park, interactive stadium plan, accepted · Croke Park, Kellogg's Skyline Tour, accepted · Croke Park, Level 5 premium plan, accepted · Croke Park, match and concert parking, accepted · Croke Park, services and facilities, accepted · Croke Park, stadium tour, accepted · GAA, 2025 annual congress report, accepted