Entrance to the Cricket Ground and
Rugby Stadium North and West Stands from Kirkstall Lane.
Headingley Stadium is a
sporting complex in the Leeds
suburb of
Headingley
in West Yorkshire,
England
. It is the home of
Yorkshire County Cricket Club,
rugby league team
Leeds Rhinos and
rugby
union team
Leeds Carnegie
(formerly known as Leeds Tykes).
There are two separate grounds, with a two-sided stand housing
common facilities. Initially, the whole complex was owned by the
Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Company, which is the
parent company of both rugby clubs. Yorkshire County Cricket Club
purchased the cricket ground on 31 December 2005 and, as announced
on 11 October 2006, the whole ground is managed as one jointly
between
Yorkshire
C.C.C. and Leeds Rugby.
This type of joint cricket and football/rugby
stadia were typical in 19th century England, and is how Bramall Lane
and Park Avenue
originally were.
Since 11
January 2006, the stadium has officially been known as the
Headingley Carnegie Stadium as a result of
sponsorship from Leeds Metropolitan University
, whose sports faculty is known as the Carnegie
School of Sport Exercise and Physical Education.
The
Carnegie Floodlit Nines
rugby league nines tournament was
held at Headingley stadium for the first time on Wednesday August
27 2008.
Headingley Rugby Stadium
Headingley's rugby stadium is located at .
Carnegie Stand from St Michaels
Lane
Leeds St. Johns, who were later to become Leeds Rugby League
Football Club then
Leeds Rhinos, moved
to Headingley in 1889 and built Headingley stadium. Since then the
stadium has staged more than 40 international matches and countless
domestic finals. The ground now has a capacity of 20,500 following
repairs at the end of 2008.
It is the second largest stadium in Leeds after
Elland
Road
.
Headingly hosted
rugby league's first
ever
Challenge Cup final in
1897.
In the 1930s, major developments took place on two sides of the
rugby ground. The South Stand was completed in 1931, with some of
the work being carried out by club players, whilst the old wooden
North Stand was burned down during a match against Halifax on 25
March 1931. By the end of 1932, a new North Stand had been
completed.
The record attendance at Headingley was 40,175 for the rugby league
match between Leeds and
Bradford on
21 May 1947. Undersoil heating was installed in 1963 but has since
been removed due to ongoing problems, and
floodlight were installed in 1966. The
1970 Rugby League World
Cup final between Great Britain and Australia was played at the
stadium. New changing rooms were added in 1991.
In July 1998,
Leeds RUFC became part
of the world's first dual-code rugby partnership,
Leeds Rugby
Limited.
In 2001 capacity was increased marginally by extending the
terracing around the corner in between the Western Terraces and the
North Stand.
2006 saw the construction of the Carnegie Stand. Built to replace
the old eastern terrace, it was opened on 1 September 2006 for the
Super League match between
Leeds Rhinos and
Warrington Wolves. The building of this
stand replaced the ageing executive facilities which were
previously situated towards the rear of the Eastern Terraces.
Facilities
North Stand
South Stand
The rugby stadium benefits from many facilities. The South Stand
has its own
bar,
bookmakers and catering facilities. The media
centre is situated on the roof of the South Stand. The North Stand
benefits from a joint bar with the Cricket side 'The Watering Hole'
as well as mobile catering facilities. The new Carnegie Stand has
executive boxes, bars and a restaurant. The Western terraces house
both the club
scoreboard and the
Sky Sports videoboard.
Leeds Rhinos and
Leeds Carnegie share a club shop in between
the North and Carnegie Stands.
Redevelopment
There is current debate over what part of the stadium is to be
redeveloped next. It was the hope of
Leeds
Rhinos to redevelop the North Stand. However being as this was
double sided, it required the co-operation of
Yorkshire Cricket, Yorkshire Cricket
however showed no intention of redeveloping their side of the stand
for some time, instead wanting to redevelop parts of the opposite
side of the ground first. There is also limited scope for
improvement as neither side can expand their stand without
encroaching on the other side. There have been talks since about
redeveloping either the South Stand or the open terraces to the
West of the ground, however this would probably involve demolishing
six houses and re-routing a public right of way. For the 2008 Super
League Final Eliminator against Wigan Warriors, the lower half of
the South Stand was closed for safety reasons and the capacity
reduced. Following a safety inspection repairs to the lower half of
the stand were required and a permanent reduction in capacity of
the stand from 8,000 to 6,000 imposed. These repairs however have
only been given a safety certificate for 2 years and Leeds Rugby
are currently drawing up plans and arranging funding for the stands
replacement.
Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground
Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground (invariably shortened to Headingley) adjoins the rugby stadium through a shared main stand, although the main entrance to the cricket ground is at the opposite Kirkstall Lane end. It has seen Test cricket since 1899 and has a capacity of 17,500.
Headingley Carnegie cricket ground is located at .
Notable sporting moments
In 1902, Yorkshire beat the touring Australians by five wickets,
after dismissing them for 23 in their second innings with
George Herbert Hirst and
Stanley Jackson taking five wickets
each.
Donald Bradman's innings of 334 in
the 1930
Ashes Test included 309 runs on
the first day, and he followed it in the Australians' next test at
Headingley in 1934 with an innings of 304.
Spinner
Hedley Verity took 10 wickets
for 10 runs in 1932 for
Yorkshire v
Nottinghamshire, still
the best bowling analysis ever in first-class cricket. Verity had
also taken all ten against Warwickshire at Headingley in
1931.
In 1948, Australia scored 404 for three on the last day to beat
England.
Arthur Morris scored 182 and
Bradman scored 173 not out.
In the 1977 Ashes test,
Geoff Boycott
scored his hundredth first-class
hundred.
In 1981, Headingley provided the stage for perhaps the most
dramatic comeback in Test cricket, when
England beat
Australia by 18 runs. The
bookies quoted odds of 500-1 against an England victory after they
followed on 227 runs behind and then
collapsed to 135 for seven in their second innings.
Ian Botham scored 149
not
out, and then
Bob Willis took eight
for 43 with the ball, and England won. Two members of the
Australian team had taken the 500-1 odds. This was only the second
time in the entire history of Test cricket that a side had
followed-on and won; something which would not occur again until
2001.
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In the Test of 1991,
Graham Gooch
scored a match-winning 154 not out, carrying his bat throughout
England's second innings of 252, against the
West Indies including
Malcolm Marshall,
Curtley Ambrose and
Courtney Walsh.
In a game they had to win to stay in the
1999 Cricket World Cup, the eventual
cup-winners Australia chased down
South Africa's 271 for
seven after being 48 for three.
Steve
Waugh, who had been dropped by
Herschelle Gibbs as he attempted to throw
the ball up in celebration, scored 120 not out.
In 2000, England dismissed the West Indies for 61 to win by an
innings, with
Andrew Caddick taking
four wickets in an over. This would be repeated seven years later
in 2007, as
Ryan Sidebottom took
eight wickets for 86 in two innings as England subjected the
Windies to their worst Test defeat ever, an innings and 283
runs.
In August 2001, England successfully chased 315 to beat Australia,
with
Mark Butcher scoring an unbeaten
173 as England won by six wickets.
However in August 2009 in the 4th test of
The
Ashes series, Australia beat England in 2½ days by an innings
an 80 runs. Australia took twenty wickets with an attack without a
spin bowler. England's middle order batsmen (
Ravi Bopara,
Ian Bell
and
Paul Collingwood) scored 16
runs between them in two innings.
Headingley - West Stand
Headingley - East Stand
Owning the ground
In December 2005
Yorkshire
County Cricket Club obtained a loan of £9 million from
Leeds City Council towards the cost of
purchasing the cricket ground for £12 million. Shortly afterwards,
98.37% of members who participated in a vote backed the deal. On 11
January 2006, the club announced plans to rebuild the stand next to
the rugby ground with 3,000 extra seats, taking capacity to 20,000.
The club also announced plans to redevelop the Winter Shed (North)
stand on 25 August 2006 providing a £12.5 million pavilion
complex.
Future Developments
Yorkshire County Cricket
Club have shown keen interest in redeveloping the northern side
of the ground. This is a major inconvenience to
Leeds Rugby Limited as they wish to
redevelop their North Stand, which backs onto the Cricket Ground,
any redevelopment of this stand can not go ahead until
Yorkshire Cricket are also willing to
redevelop their side of the cricket pitch. If Headingley is to
retain
Test Ground Status it is
likely that further improvements will need to be made to the
ground. Any future development is likely to increase the capacity
of the ground as well as providing new corporate and banqueting
facilities.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
and Leeds
Metropolitan University have recently unveiled their plan for the new
Headingley Carnegie Pavilion, which will replace 'The Shed' to the
northern side of the Cricket Ground (which dating from the early
1970s is the oldest surviving part of the cricket ground).
The new structure will be of a modernist design.
Headingley Carnegie Pavilion
The new pavilion will replace 'The Winter Shed' and 'The Media
Centre' at the Kirkstall Lane end of the ground. According to
Yorkshire County Cricket
Club the current media centre is obsolete and does not meet the
requirements of modern broadcasters. The changing facilities will
also be replaced by 'state of the art' changing facilities,
designed specifically for Cricket, while the executive boxes will
be replaced by new facilities that will provide the modern expected
level of service. Yorkshire County Cricket Clubs offices will also
be relocated into the pavilion. The new pavilion will boast
environmental credentials such as having a
ground source heat pump and
Solar hot water heating.
Gallery
Rugby Ground
Image:Western terraces.jpg|Western TerracesImage:North
stand.jpg|North StandImage:Headingley floodlight.jpg|
Floodlight Column 'C'
Cricket Ground
Image:Headingley 2001.jpg|England v Australia 4th
Test, 2001
See also
References
- Leeds Metropolitan University - Latest News -
Headingley Carnegie Stadium - 11/01/06
-
http://www.leedscarnegie.co.uk/news_7A260CCE0E064A0AB5C1CC4FD5D713A9.htm
- 9th Super Six Match: Australia v South Africa at
Leeds, 13 Jun 1999
- 4th Test: England v Australia at Leeds, 16-20 Aug
2001
- BBC SPORT | Cricket | Counties | Yorkshire |
Members approve Headingley buyout
- BBC SPORT | Cricket | Counties | Yorkshire | New
stand and name for Headingley
- Come in to the new Headingley Carnegie Stadium! :
News : The Yorkshire County Cricket Club
- The Carnegie Pavilion Development
-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/panoramas/headingley_cricket_ground_360.shtml
-
http://www.yorkshireccc.com/grounds/the_carnegie_pavilion_development/the_proposed_development/index.html
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