Alabama football does not plan on announcing attendance for Saturday’s A-Day open practice, a representative for UA athletics told AL.com on Saturday. The A-Day event will be an open practice, not a game or scrimmage as in past seasons.

UA has traditionally announced an attendance figure for A-Day. Last season, 72,358 fans showed up for Kalen DeBoer’s first A-Day, according to Alabama.

The high water mark for the event came in 2007, when over 92,000 were on hand for Nick Saban’s Bryant-Denny Stadium debut. A-Day continued to be a large event for fans throughout Saban’s tenure.

The Crimson Tide already held its three spring practice scrimmages, with the final one happening Thursday. A-Day will be the Tide’s final spring football session.

“We’ll have more of a practice, a full practice like we would have any day,” DeBoer said of the format change in March. “It allows us to kind of have a controlled setting, control the reps that certain guys get. We understand the significance. Everyone loves football here. We want to give that day and make it available, show off our guys, go do their thing.”

DeBoer had already changed the A-Day format in 2024. The Crimson Tide did not divide into two teams as in years past, instead, it was the offense vs. the defense, with both sides able to score points.

The head coach expressed his excitement for the modified event earlier on Saturday, speaking at a ceremony to honor Alabama’s 2024 team captains.

“Thank you all for being here,” DeBoer said to fans near Denny Chimes on campus at UA. “With the A-Day celebration and everything, just an exciting day for you, exciting day for me, and of course our guys feel a chance to showcase their ability everything they’ve been working on here the last couple months.”

A-Day will not be televised for the first time since at least the 2006 season. However, admission at the stadium remains free.