Sports Grounds/Stadiums you've been to

[Nalis]

On the theme of the grounds thread with City in the Leicester forum, what (and how many) grounds /stadiums have been to regarding any sports? Any notable ones for you?

 

Rules are probably actually watching a match at the stadium and probably at any semi-professional level at level, bar top level amateur sports such as Gaelic hurling and Gaelic football.

 

Possibly too many for a list but been to probably around a hundred covering a range of sports. Outside of football, Millenium Stadium and Croke Park are impressive. As a snooker geek I absolutely loved the Crucible, difficult to describe but you could feel the atmosphere despite no crowd noise on shots.

Edited 9 October 2019 by Nalis
Typo, hundred not hundreds lol

[StanSP]

not listing the football ones again 

 

Vicente Calderon (I missed this off so one football stadium can be included )

Lords
The Oval
Trent Bridge

Old Trafford (cricket)
The County Ground (Northamptonshire)
Silverstone

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium

Welford Road
Goldington Road (Bedford Blues)
Spurs (NFL)
 

Edited 8 October 2019 by StanSP

[urban.spaceman]

Filbert Street

King Power Stadium

Welford Road

Old Wembley

New Wembley

Pride Park

Villa Park

Ewood Park

Ninian Park

Meadow Lane (pre-season friendly 1998)

Twickenham

Millennium Stadium (Six Nations England/Wales match - completely accidentally)

North Harbour Stadium (Auckland, New Zealand, RWC 2011 - South Africa 87 - 0 Namibia)

Eden Park (Auckland again - 2 England RWC matches and 1 cricket match NZ vs ZA)

Molepolole Stadium, Botswana

[Kopic]

Stelios Kyriakides - the home of the mighty FC Pafos in Cyprus. Cost us about a quid to get in, turned out to be quite a big game and we found a load of knives in the toilets.

[PAULCFC]

All the usual,but went to the oval for Surrey v Somerset in the 80's.Must have been about 14,ticket on the gate and Somerset had Bottham,Richards and Garner in their squad.So at that time you could wait down the steps at the Oval to get the autographs.So Viv and Joel came down the stairs and couldn't have been more friendly,really nice blokes!Then botham came down,i don't know wether it was the time when he was in the news about something,,but no autographs or anything.

Edited 8 October 2019 by PAULCFC

[Finnegan]

How many hipster points do I get for Valbruna Stadium, Rovinj? 

[Mike the Metal Ed]

All the football grounds mentioned in the other thread, plus various others I can't be bothered to list

 

Ice Hockey:
Bell Centre (Canadiens v Maple Leafs)

 

Baseball:
Turner Field (Braves v Phillies)

Sapporo Dome (Nippon-Ham Fighters v Rakuten Golden Eagles)

 

Cricket:
Grace Road

Old Trafford

(all Leicestershire CCC matches)

 

Motorsport:
Mallory Park

 

Various arenas for pro wrestling, including Georgia Dome, New Orleans Superdome, Korakuen Hall and Nippon Budokan

 

 

[PAULCFC]

Abbey Lawn...Bourne Town...my second club!And julian joachim has signed as player coach!

Darts;

Ally Pally

Wolverhampton Civic Hall,and the new one.

Birmingham

Nottingham

Shefield

Stadium MK

Rugby;

Twickenham

Wales's ground

Murrayfield

Landsdowne Road

Italy's ground

parc de prance

 

Edited 8 October 2019 by PAULCFC

[Stadt]

14 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

How many hipster points do I get for Valbruna Stadium, Rovinj? 

You've already got an insurmountable lead at the top of the hipster FT table. I'm almost as bad as you these days though, still not drinking the Russian caravan loose leaf yet 

Edited 8 October 2019 by Stadt

[Rain King]

AFL

 

MCG

Marvel Stadium (Was called Colonial Stadium when I went) 

 

RFL

Olympic Park Stadium for Melbourne Knights. 

[The whole world smiles]

Abroad football

San Siro

Stadio olympico (Rome)

Olympic stadium (Berlin)

Allianz area (Munich)

Rhineenergiestadium (cologne)

Camp Nou

Telia Parker (Copenhagen)

Celtic Park

 

Boxing

Madison Square Gardens 

O2

Millennium Stadium

MEN arena

Notingham arena

Coperbox

Wembley stadium

Wembley arena

 

Cricket

Grace road

Trent bridge

 

Ice hockey 

Barclays center (New York)

 

 

 

 

[HybridFox]

Not including football.

 

Cricket

Grace Road

Trent Bridge

The Oval

Old Trafford

Edgbaston

 

Rugby

Welford Road

Madjeski Stadium

Ibrox

Villa Park

Ricoh Arena

 

Boxing

Wembley Stadium

O2 Arena

Morningside Arena (Also for basketball and pool!)

Bramall Lane

SSE Hydro

 

Tennis

Wimbledon

Nottingham Open

 

Badminton

Wembley Arena

 

Athletics 

London Stadium

Hampden Park

 

Hockey

Lee Valley

 

Paralympic Sports

Olympic Park

ExCel 

[Voll Blau]

Done 10 of the 18 county cricket main grounds. Would love to do all of them before I croak, but all of the awkward ones down south (if you live in the East Midlands) are among the eight I haven't done yet.

[Stuntman_Mike]

Football: NEC Nijmegen, Hertha Berlin, Slovan Bratislava, Steaua Bucharest, Sydney FC, FC Copenhagen, Rangers, Celtic, Queen of the South, Nizhny Novgorod

 

(Sevilla, FC Copenhagen, Atletico Madrid, Club Brugge) - all with City though.

 

Baseball: Tampa Bay Rays

 

Basketball: Leicester Riders

 

Aussie Rules: Brisbane Lions

 

Ice Hockey: Sheffield Steelers 

 

Cricket: Grace Road, Trent Bridge (T20), Old Trafford (Arctic Monkey's gig)

 

Snooker: The Crucible 

 

 

 

[Fox in the North]

Football
 

Filbert Street

King Power Stadium

Stamford Bridge

Old Trafford

Hillsborough

Etihad Stadium

Goodison 

Old Wembley

New Wembley

KC Stadium

Elland Road

John Smiths Stadium

Valley Parade

 

Stade de Costiere

Stade de la Mosson

Mestalla

Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes

Estadio do Dragao

 

Other Sports

 

Welford Road 

Grace Road 

 

 

[isaidno]

Outside of uk football 

 

Aviva stadium

Camp Nou

Bernabaeu

San Siro 

Olympic stadium Berlin

Espanyol

 

New York Mets stadium 

 

Melbourne cricket ground 

 

The crucible

 

Trent Bridge 

Australia, Malaysia, Italy, Hungary, Spain, Monaco, Canada F1 races

 

Le Mans

 

Speedway Gp Prague 

 

 

 

 

[TiffToff88]

Football (Non UK):

Camp Nou - Barcelona Vs Real Madrid, 2002 - a bizarre game in which the game had to be delayed when 2 protesters ran onto the pitch and handcuffed themselves to the goalposts 

Jan Breydel Stadium - Club Bruge Vs Leicester

Gerhard Hanappi Stadium (Vienna) - Red Star Belgrade Vs Leicester

 

Rugby:

Welford Road

Parc des Princes

 

Cricket:

Grace Road

Edgbaston

Trent Bridge

The Oval

Lords

Old Trafford

 

Snooker:

The Crucible

[Donk]

I like F1 and have been to Silverstone 3 times, monza and to the old Magny Cours.

 

Two races id like to attend on the calendar are Canada Gilles Villeneuve and Interlagos in Brazil.

 

Done plenty of cricket at county ground derbyshire, trent bridge, rose bowl hampshire, headingley and grace road

 

Went to wimbledon once but didnt enjoy it as much as hoped. Only saw a couple of sets all day rained heavily. Pat Rafter played.

 

Been to darts at lakeside when gary anderson was BDO

 

Also been to snooker at York Barbican which was great.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Estádio do Dragão

Allianz Arena

 

Grace Road

Trent Bridge

Edgbaston

Lords

The Oval

Headingley

North Marine Road Ground

The Gabba

 

AT&T Park

 

Woburn Golf Club

 

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Bucket list 

 

Antigua for the cricket

Cape town for the cricket

Anywhere stateside for the NFL

Japan for the baseball

 

[Donk]

Not sure it counts as "stadiums" but been to a lot of golf too.

 

Wentworth, welsh open at celtic manor, 4 opens at Carnoustie, royal liverpool, birkdake and lytham st annes

 

On PGA tour ive been to Valero Texas open at San Antonio (lovely course) and to the Houston Open at Redstone GC.... not sure its played anymore though

[Filbert_Ross]

Benfica 

Lazio 

Partizan Belgrade

Atletico Madrid (old)

Real Madrid 

Dinamo Zagreb’s for Croatia v Macedonia

Barca (Tour)

Hertha (Tour)

with Leicester - Porto & Sevilla 

 

Old Trafford cricket - Liam Gallagher 

Trent Bridge 

 

wanna go Ross County’s Victoria Park one day. 

[KrefelderFox666]

Grounds I haven't already visited with Leicester.

 

Football:

 

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Stade de Gerland Lyon (old)

Olympiastadion Berlin

BorussiaPark Monchengladbach

Merkur Spiel Arena Dusseldorf - Also NFL Europe

Rheinstadion Dusseldorf (old) - Also NFL Europe

Auf Schalke

Grotenburg Krefeld

Aviva Stadium Dublin

Millenium Stadium Cardiff (also Rugby)

 

Rugby:

 

The Rec Bath

Welford Road

Twickenham Stadium

Franklin Gardens Northampton

Kingsholm Gloucester

Murrayfield Edinburgh

 

Ice Hockey:

 

KonigPalast Krefeld

Rheinlandhalle Krefeld (old)

ISS Dome Dusseldorf

Lanxess Arena Koln

Mercedes Benz Arena Berlin

Barclaycard Arena Hamburg

Scania Arena Duisburg

Ice Rink Coventry

 

Cricket:

 

Grace Road Leicester

Edgbaston

 

Darts:

 

Coventry Jaguar Arena (in the Ricoh)

Wolverhampton Civic Hall

Wembley Arena

 

Tennis:

 

Wimbledon

 

Hockey:

 

Lee Valley Olympic Park

 

I think that is everything...

[peach0000]

Avoiding the ones I’ve been to watching Leicester some of the crazier ones for me are;

Stade velodrome (England v Russia)

spartak stadium (England v Colombia)

yankee stadium (some baseball match)

toulouses stadium (Spain v Croatia)

 

best of the ones I’ve been to!

 

[Voll Blau]

Any of the lads who've done Ashes Tests in Australia, which ground would be top of your list over there and why?

[ozleicester]

4 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Any of the lads who've done Ashes Tests in Australia, which ground would be top of your list over there and why?

1 - MCG

2 - SCG

3 - either Adelaide or the new Perth stadium