Marston's Stadium

Marston's Stadium is the home of Hinckley United an English football club, from Hinckley, Leicestershire. The club currently plays in the Conference North. Situated within the De Montfort Park Complex. De Montfort Park covers convert|22|acre|ha|0 and includes 3 full size pitches, 2 three-quarter size pitches, 3 half size pitches and an all weather surface pitch. The flagship of the complex is the Marston Stadium, a 4329 capacity purpose built football ground, also comprising gymnasium, sports injury clinic and a social club too. The Stadium opened in March 2005 when Stalybridge Celtic were the first team to play Hinckley United on the ground, in front of a crowd of over 2000.__TOC__

The Main Stand

The Main Stand is covered seated spectating with a capacity of 630 seats. The complex houses the changing rooms, gymnasium, lounge, boardroom and offices of the football club. VP's Club Bar and Sponsors Lounge are located at the top of the Main Stand, overlooking the pitch

The East Terrace

The East Terrace Stand is covered standing spectating with a capacity of 970. This stand is adjoined to the Social Club, Lacey's Bar.

The Tom Powers Stand

The Tom Powers Stand is covered standing spectating with a capacity of 1095. It is named by the landowners who original sold the land to Hinckley United enabling them to build the ground.

The West Stand

Currently the West Side is hard standing for 586 spectators. Once finance is in place this stand is planned to be a 400-seat covered end incorporating changing rooms for the Juniors and All-Weather pitch. The changing rooms have been completed and the next phase will be to cover and seat the hard standing area.

Segregation

Should the need arise for segregation then away fans will be allocated the West end of the ground. The segregated capacity at the west end is 850 plus 80 seats in the Main Stand. The Away Turnstiles are only operable when segregation is in place.

Other uses

Leicester City reserves play their home games at the Marston Stadium.

The Marston's Stadium is used by the Leicestershire FA for finals of their regional competitions, and staged International Youth games in 2006. England U19's used the facilities for training in 2006 as preparation for a match against the Czech Republic at Northampton's Sixfields Stadium. In April 2007 the Stadium was used by the English FA as a semi final venue for the National FA Sunday Cup.

Record attendance

3231 vs Leicester City, 12 July 2008, Pre-season Friendly.cite news|url=http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/LatestNews/0,,10274~1343157,00.html|title=LCFC.com match report|date=2008-07-12|publisher=LCFC official site|accessdate=2008-07-20]

3079 vs Leicester City, 17 July 2007, Pre-season Friendly

2889 vs Nuneaton Borough, 26 December 2006, Conference North Division

2278 vs Nuneaton Borough, 10 December 2005, Conference North Division

2029 vs Stalybridge Celtic, 5 March 2005, Conference North Division

References

Hinckley United Links

* [http://www.hinckleyunitedfc.org Hinckley United Official Website]
* [http://www.hinckleyunitedfc.co.uk Hinckley United Independent Website]
* [http://www.marstonstadium.co.uk The Marston Stadium Website]