A-Z Of Sporting Venues - Real or Fictional

[herringthorpe]

Any sport, any venue, anywhere in the whole wide world or the universe or ex-venues!

A AGGBOROUGH Stadium - Kidderminster Harriers football ground which opened in 1884 and holds just less than 6,500.

 

[Lindum]

B - Bernabeu (Estadio Santiago Bernabeu). Home stadium of Real Madrid since its completion in 1947.

 

[mikemiller]

Never beeen to either of the above.
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C CARROW Road , home of Norwich City F.C. ...

or CLIFTON Lane , home of Rotherham Rugby Union F.C and Rotherham Town Cricket Club. Also was originally home of Rotherham Town F.C., one of the clubs who merged together to form what is now the Millers.

 

[RufcChappellRoanFanCraig]

D. Derwent Park. Home of Workington Town Rugby League.
Workington Comets Speedway used it for home meetings. But now they have their own new track, Northside.

 

[Lindum]

E - Edgbaston. Cricket ground in Birmingham, home to Warwickshire CCC and T20 side, Birmingham Bears.

 

[RufcChappellRoanFanCraig]

F Feethams former home of Darlington.

 

[mikemiller]

Been to Egdbaston and Feethams, both several times. Never visited Workington at all.
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G Goldstone Ground ( for a "double") - was the home of Brighton and Hove Albion F.C. from 1902 to 1997. I went there several times and never saw us lose! The site is now a retail park.

 

[sixpence]

H - HEADINGLEY Stadium, Leeds. The home of the rugby league club.

I spent many Boxing Days there, in my (much) younger days, with my Dad watching the local derby with our team Wakefield Trinity.

Also HEADINGLEY cricket ground very close by.

 

[RufcChappellRoanFanCraig]

I Ibrox. Home of the Scottish team, Rangers.

 

[Lindum]

H - HEADINGLEY Stadium, Leeds. The home of the rugby league club.

I spent many Boxing Days there, in my (much) younger days, with my Dad watching the local derby with our team Wakefield Trinity.

Also HEADINGLEY cricket ground very close by.

Been to the cricket but never the rugby.

 

[Lindum]

J - Johan Cruyff Arena. Amsterdam stadium and since its completion in 1996 the home of Ajax.

 

[mikemiller]

Been to Headingley many times to watch cricket, and also have been in the rugby ground (there wasn't a match on at the time though). Never been to Ibrox, or visited Amsterdam either.
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K Kingsmeadow - currently home of Chelsea Women's football club. Previously home to Kingstonian FC and AFC Wimbledon. Been there several times.

 

[RufcChappellRoanFanCraig]

L. Leeds Road. Former home of Huddersfield Town. (I don't like them !)

 

[mikemiller]

Been to Leeds Road several times -classic game in the 60's when we won 3-0 sticks in the mind. We haven't done much there since.

... or ...London Road - home of Peterborough United FC . Been there several times - bit of a mixed bag of results. I remember one of our promotion seasons when the last game of the season ended in a 1-1 draw there. We couldn't quite catch up Millwall. Both sets of players and coaching staff did a lap of honour at the end. The Millers fans sang "Deep Fat Fryer" to Barry Fry, and he laughed and waved back.
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M Millmoor (of course!) - Former home of Rotherham United F.C. ... so many happy memories... and a few bad ones too! I'm only a few hundered yards form the Tivoli End whilst typing this message!

 

[Lindum]

N - Nou Camp. Home of Barcelona FC since it opened in 1957.

 

[RufcChappellRoanFanCraig]

O- Old Trafford. Home of the biggest (lol !) club in the world, Manchester United.

 

[herringthorpe]

P PANATHENAIC Stadium in Athens. Built in the sixth century and been refurbished many times and hosted the first modern olympics in 1870 and last hosted in 2004.

Seen it from the outside, never been in.

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[RufcChappellRoanFanCraig]

I give up on Q. Is there somewhere called Queens whatever ?. No this has got me !

 

[Lindum]

I give up on Q. Is there somewhere called Queens whatever ?. No this has got me !

What about Enfield's football ground, Queen Elizabeth II Stadium?
There's also the Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre in Australia which oddly also used to be called the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Sports Centre.

 

[herringthorpe]

R RATE Field - where Chicago White Sox have their home baseball games although it's record attendance was in 2016 for a Chance The Rapper Concert when 47,754 people turned up.