Sheffield FC's ground's entrance is through a pub

@harrierjames7727

5 жыл бұрын

Ish... You can get in through the pub, but there are functioning turnstiles!

@SamL99431

5 жыл бұрын

I went a couple of years ago and didn't enter through the pub..

@ForeverEFC

5 жыл бұрын

I was there 2 weeks ago watching Prescot Cables vs Sheffield and I don’t know anyone who got into the ground through the pub

@qlucas5510

5 жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ

@charitycharity3316

5 жыл бұрын

Its not

I'm in the US, and I am fascinated by English/European football stadia, architecture and history, and I loved this video. Subscribed! Cheers from Chicago.

Why don’t you do the biggest and smallest ground from each League, top 7 tiers

That Dartford ground is beautiful

@Spectrescup

5 жыл бұрын

It really is

@Abc-yt3el

5 жыл бұрын

They used renewable timber you know, not that ordinary timber Renewable, re-new-a-ble.

OK here is another one for you Chester FC . They play at the Deva Stadium. What makes this stadium unique you ask, how about the fact that the stadium is in both England and Wales. Most of the stadium in on the English side of the border, but the main stand is actually on the other side of the border in Wales.

@BostonUnitedFM

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, the stadium is in Wales, but only the building that protrudes from the back of the main stand is in England.

@martyncheung7982

5 жыл бұрын

That's a quality fact. Worth a visit?

@gordonhotchkiss3515

5 жыл бұрын

I checked it out and I was right about the stadium being in both England and Wales, but the rest of the detail that I thought was right were wrong.

@mojoe464

5 жыл бұрын

But Chester play there...

@mattthomas9974

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah you're right, all except the main stand is in Wales. When Chester reformed a few years ago they applied to play in the Welsh Premier but were denied!

1:39 thank you for using the picture from my blog! Love that picture and was a great groundhop!

Great video! Some lovely designs here. Some very nice choices that really show the weirdest and most wonderful in non-league!

You forgot my team, National League Leyton Orient. There's flats built on every corner of the ground.😀

@matthunt2973

5 жыл бұрын

Jason Scotcher is James alabi playing well?? From a Tranmere fan

@timowerner6518

4 жыл бұрын

Now you are in league 2

@haroldinhoo1655

4 жыл бұрын

Wait why have you got a Liverpool profile pic

@lenmorris9674

3 жыл бұрын

Why do you have a Liverpool badge, is Leyton Orient your local club?

@Jamboy0

2 жыл бұрын

@@lenmorris9674 probs

That Great Yarmouth stand is stunning.

I just seen this by interest and it's good to see Newcastle Towns ground with the velodrome. Love that ground.

Nanpean Rovers’ ground is very obscure. Also Farnborough and Weymouth have two cracking stadiums.

Good to see Ilkeston on there. Great video man 👍🏻

Can't believe someone hasn't taken a can or two of paint to that Tesco Trolley park stand. Maybe it was given to them on account that they keep the logo in order to advertise Tesco, otherwise not smarting it up a bit is bloody absurd

@goonerbeagunner4life

5 жыл бұрын

I like it, gives it a bit of character, something to talk about. Otherwise it'd just be a bit of flimsy plastic.

@ReeceLiamAllsop

5 жыл бұрын

It's been like this for nearly ten years funny thing is the local supermarket is a co-op and asda

@russ838

5 жыл бұрын

They shud rename the ground to "Trolley Park"

@tdurb0

5 жыл бұрын

I live 3 miles from there and I’ve walked past it so many times down the trail and haven’t even noticed it!

@JoshAston23

4 жыл бұрын

Every little helps...even when it means advertising a billion pound supermarket to a dozen or so non league supporters

Excellent as always..

loved it thank you for a brilliant video a Stockport County fan

Very interesting video mate!

i great up near the ground of great yarmouth great to see you include it! love the content on the channel by the way very informative about non-league football

@Aj-zt7ze

5 жыл бұрын

I live near it now.

@CivilWarrior123

5 жыл бұрын

A j same!

This was actually such a cool video 👍👍

love this, do a part 2

Cover some of Scotland, some great weird grounds up here and just weird stuff in general!

Top video mate

My home town club (now defunct) Knypersley Victoria also shared with a cricket pitch. They couldn't play any home games on Saturday until the cricket season was over. Their highlight was reaching the FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round and losing to Boston United in the mid 90s. Great video.

@BostonUnitedFM

5 жыл бұрын

I was at that Boston game! October 1997, Boston won 1-0

My hometown is Great Yarmouth (born and bred)...and I've sat in that beautiful, listed grandstand at Great Yarmouth Town F.C. many times...(I can remember seeing the stand and ground packed to the rafters when we played VS Rugby in the F.A.Vase semi final back in 1983...)

@lewis72

5 жыл бұрын

I was in GY just earlier today. Is that stand open now ? Last time I actually visited it, it was still chained off. I used to run there back in the '8os when I was at GYDAC.

@garethfreeman3436

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm sure it is open now@@lewis72...there was certainly people sitting in there when I last went a couple of years ago...you're right though...it was chained off a few years back as it didn't meet fire regulations and didn't get a fire certificate but that's been rectified now.

@lewis72

5 жыл бұрын

@@garethfreeman3436 Oh, that's excellent. It would have been summer 2012 the last time I actually went to try to get into that stand. Even then, it brought back memories of my running days in the '80s when we all used to pile up in that stand, still with our spike running shoes on digging in the wood !

@duncanlapping9561

5 жыл бұрын

Gary Freeman - I was at VS Rugby game too and sitting in the stand - great memories of Great Yarmouth

@CivilWarrior123

5 жыл бұрын

Gary Freeman Same town :0

Decent vid bossman

Chorley maybe with the huge hill opposite the main stand?

Great stuff, you should do the most scenic grounds..

That #1 ground design with the cricket pitch wasn't that uncommon in days gone by. My Dad worked as a groundsman at Northants County Cricket Ground in the 1970s, and had to convert the pitch between sports a couple of times as it was shared with Northampton Town. Like the ground featured here, only three sides had stands, so an open field meant players would sometimes just boot the ball as hard as possible off the open side to waste time if protecting a lead. The other funny thing was that the ground was put on the far side from the Pavilion to protect the windows, meaning the players had to walk about 100 yards just to get to the pitch! One of the old football stands still remains at the cricket ground, albeit in a different location now.

@TOTN17

5 жыл бұрын

its not uncommon in the a-league for teams to play in oval stadiums

@Snookbone

5 жыл бұрын

@@TOTN17 good point yeah. When the second most popular sport is designed to be played on a similar field to the most popular, ovals must abound in Oz!

@TOTN17

5 жыл бұрын

@@Snookbone there is a few through the wellington phoenix the new zealand side in the comp is currently the only team that permentally plays on a oval with melbourne victory playing its bigger matches at docklands due to the capicaty

Watching this again I can't help agree with this. A lot of non league football posters don't have a clue about non league football. They say they like it but don't understand it. A great list!

#6 is my favorite on the list. Very cool looking venue.

In Norway there is a team in the fifth tier that plays in a ground that doubles as a racehorse track (for trot/harness racing).

Wealdstone FC (Conference South champions) ground, The Vale, has a concrete World War 2 anti-aircraft gun platform in one corner. It was used to protect the nearby RAF base at Northolt.

@SBiswas1967

4 жыл бұрын

I live in Greenford.

How did I not notice Teversal's Tesco stand when we visited last season, certainly give them EXTRA marks for ingenuity

Take a look at Cowdenbeath FC's ground, they share with some race cars. Yes there is a race track around the pitch and the cars actually arrive 20 odd mins before FT and you can hear them getting ready before the whistle, give it a look!

I used to play for Teversal Colts as a kid, the trolley stands weren't there then, but we did have the main stand. Pretty good for kids football. As a Miner's Welfare, it also had a great cricket pitch, changing rooms and bar with function room.

Wingate & Finchley's stadium is called Maurice Rebak stadium. Harry Abrahams is the old name

The Dripping Pan has flint walls on top of the grass banks which are listed structures. It has beach huts, a fresh pasta stall and an ice-cream kiosk. Fabulous!

Been to a few of these with Nantwich Town before, but my favourite has to be Ilkeston, the ground just has so much about it, I do miss going there

I have ran the line at Newcastle Town's ground lovely little arena with the cycle track round the edge

Stour aye we

Ludlow Town ground is a very clever idea. The main stand has seating etc looking onto a grass pitch. The back of this same stand has seating etc looking onto another pitch which is 3G. This clever idea enables just one smart stand with changing rooms and hospitality facilities etc to serve 2 pitches with different surfaces.

having played at newcastle towns ground i was hoping it would pop up on here and yes its more than useful having a banked side and a cycle track to add to the steepness they must save a beer a game not needing a ball boy

I been to several non league grounds in the midlands, inc stourbridge, tamworth, moor green( now merged to solihull), and two clubs in the same area, halesowen town and halesowen harriers.

I can think of a couple grounds that double as cricket pitches, Mickleover sports in tier 7? Heanor town in the 10th?

Another!!!

2:20 in rugby league in Australia, most Sydney grounds have a grass hill to sit or stand on

@edwardgranger742

4 жыл бұрын

best one by far is WIN stadium for wollongong wolves and St George. got to love the main grandstant overlooking the grass hill and the ocean

Ilkeston is like 5 mins away from me, I used to play for the youth team

Good video. Subscribed (To help you to 10K)

Causeway Lane, Matlock also has a cricket double up. I've played cricket there.

Woo! Go Lewes!

New subscriber Mate. Massively enjoyed this video, also most of your previous videos. Keep it up Mate👍

I've played at Teversals Ground, former Clipstone FC player. I didn't even notice they was a tesco thing.

First club I ever played for was Teversal at carnarvon street, I think the tesco trolley shelters were donated

Ilkeston and teversal are my locals, they’re class grounds for non league x

No 4 looks like the stand at the central sports ground at Catterick, now sadly gone and covered in a car park and retail outlets. Anyone else remember it?

Stour's local rivals up the rd lye town is pretty unique aswell sharing the ground with lye cricket club

Love those Tesco shelters. We got Stourbridge in the cup,may ask some of their fans what they think of their ground.

@kieracartwright5349

5 жыл бұрын

It's unique & pretty loud in the shed end specialy under lights but it has been improved alot in the last 10/12 years or so

Saw great yarmouth on here Im watching

@CivilWarrior123

5 жыл бұрын

Bradley Miller same!

You should do a Scottish non league video am Scottish and I know the stadiums are not great in comparison but I played for linlithgow rose a Scottish junior team prob the same as the top non league division and their stadium was descent. I know this is a English football channel but would be interesting and would be quite funny if anything as some of the stadiums are really quite quirky and some are dismal but would be really interesting

@guttercleanfamily9111

5 жыл бұрын

@wull how

@mojoe464

5 жыл бұрын

But the national league and the N/S would probably rank above Scottish non league football and probably SL2

@guttercleanfamily9111

5 жыл бұрын

@@mojoe464 mostly likely mate. We had a few boys that moved down to teams like York. And also few boys that we signed from non league in England. Think it would be interesting to see a video on the Scottish non league stadiums though. However I know most stadiums are not great in comparison to English non league. There are a few really funny looking stadiums really quirky designs and even low most are shit think it would be something that would be very interesting

@kieracartwright5349

5 жыл бұрын

@@MartinJames389 my bezzie said what about berwick rangers & ashfield glasgow with the speedway track on the outside

In Glasgow there is ashfield park that doubles a a motorbike speedway arena

do intreting stadiums of any sport in the uk ..odsal stadium (bradford bulls) a former quarry also used as wembly stadium for the kings speach

@kieracartwright5349

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the speedway aswell

@burnleyfan11965

4 жыл бұрын

@@kieracartwright5349 The Shay at Halifax had speedway til the mid 80s as well. They were a league club then

5:53 Northampton's old ground was on the cricket club's pitch.

@burnleyfan11965

4 жыл бұрын

The good old County Ground. Been to that one

That Coventry stadium style is pretty common in Portugal. Clubs would only build the main stand for the season tickets owners and let everybody else just stand around the pitch

Good vid, but suprised not to see Hitchin Town on here with its wooden terraces

Grantham towns ground is pretty interesting because at the south end they have a huge grass bank to block the prevailing wind and stop people watching a free game. Problem is the grass bank only blocks the wind to a height of a few metres so on goal kicks it can be... interesting! There's plenty of none league keepers who've been made to look very silly by that grass bank!

here in australia it's very very common for the local football (aussie rules) club to share a ground with the local cricket club becuae both sports use the same size and shape field

@mikedowns8293

4 жыл бұрын

Love the Aussie Culture of sitting with a pint on the grassy bank areas at stadia. Saw Perth FC beat Sydney FC 2018-19 sat there. 3-1 I think, Le Fondre bagging for the away side.

Matlock Town - Riber Castle overlooking the ground and part shared with cricket.

One stadium you should look at is Cowdenbeath F.C. in Scotland the pitch is in the middle of a race track

Another pleaseeeeeee

There were about 6,000 of us in the memorial ground about 40 years ago for the Welsh Cup Final vs Cardiff City.

A question to fellow subs. Will Salford city have to move if they get promoted. I’m a big Salford fan ( before the money. ). And I think moor lane ( yes I still call it that. ). To not up to scratch.

@Chubby126

5 жыл бұрын

Jacob Stameiro I only ask because there’s a ready made replacement which I go to as well. Aj bell stadium. Salford reds rugby league.

I am a league of Ireland fan and these stadiums look state of the art compares to our top division clubs.

Sir! you must look into the rise and fall of Sittingbourne FC - The original ground was sold to Sainsburys for £6m. A new stadium was built with a potential capacity of 35000 (yes, thirty five thousand)...After much shenanigins its now a greyhound racing track

I would love to combine #2 & #3 in to one massive stadium

Bridlington Town afc has a stand called the "bus shelter" which is literally 3 bus shelters bolted together,

@mikedowns8293

4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant ! Lea. ..love it

The pan siro! COYR! 🔴⚫

Good to see dartford on there

Lewis have such a good stadium Nat just saying that because I live there Top of the league We are in the 7th teir

I don't know if it's because I grew up near st helens in Swansea (cricket stadium which was used for some local football matches) but don't think that sharing with cricket is that unique The velodrome one was really weird

@MartinJames389

5 жыл бұрын

It isn't. Bramall Lane used to be 3-sided because it was also a cricket ground. Yorkshire played there and it even staged Test Matches (2, I think).

@ofs82

5 жыл бұрын

Northampton Town used to share with a county cricket team until the 90s too.

Beavis and Butthead would like Coventry's ground, on the basis of it's name.😂

Heanor Town FC shares with a cricket club too

I’ve been to lewes and dartford!

Slightly off ground topic, but how about a feature on a few of the less regular teams in the final FA Cup qualifying round.

Weston super mare fc- Stand behind the goal is very unique!

Holmesdale before they removed their stand is a shout. Proper old school.

St. Albans City FC had a tree growing in the middle of the terrace behind one of the goals up until 1999

Great Yarmouth tiwn I live near there

For pitches west Auckland fc because the pitch is like a hill it sloops down a lot

Big up Newcastle town🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️⚽️

You forgot to mention the fact that Wingates main stand is double sided. One side faces the football stadium and the other side faces the rugby pitch. I once went to a game where the football and rugby were going on at the same time and it was interesting sitting in the same stand as other people watching a different sport to them.

@MartinJames389

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's Finchley RFC. I've played rugby there and both games were going on simultaneously then, too. I think it's pretty regular, though I played there only once.

Stourbridge number 1! My local non league ground. Good choice

Sandygate road, Hallam fc is also shared with a cricket pitch and it is the oldest ground in the world still being used.

@tonyobadinage6647

5 жыл бұрын

Oldest cricket ground or oldest football ground still used? Maidenhead United are recognised as having the oldest football ground in continuous use as a football ground.

@exiledbluemaxonian

2 жыл бұрын

Also Hallam's has one heck of a slope on it, must catch out away teams

Dartfords little ground is unmatched for game day atmosphere also.

Pickering Town is still situated on a cricket pitch.

Pickering Town also share a pitch with the towns cricket team

Matlock Town is also a cricket pitch. Not true about Ilkeston fc ground there is room for a full sided stand just did not have the cash at the time.

@charitycharity3316

5 жыл бұрын

This is correct they planned full length but as normal Ilkeston spent all the money plenty of room around

Newcastle town is my local team, so weird to see them on a youtube video

Northampton and Sheffield United used to share their ground with cricket pitches.

Interesting

How about a top 10 of the smallest non league stadiums?? You've done the 10 biggest, which I've added to a playlist of my favourite videos of this channel, so how about the ten 10 smallest?? 👍

old wycombe wanderers ground on the slope was pretty dire