Headingley Carnegie Stadium

As a regular visitor of Headingley Stadium I have to say the staff here are always friendly and helpful, asways happy to answer your questions or help. The stadium is always clean the only downside is the North Stand which I feel is due a makeover. Has been the same ever since I started going maybe just having work done to it once. Plenty of places to have something to eat or drink before the match or during the cricket.

The football team may not be riding as high as years gone by, but there are numerous other sports in the area that boast better success. One such club is the Leeds Rhinos. They’ve won it all and look set to continue to do so. Therefore, it’s a very tempting offer to go and watch some of the countries finest at the headingley Carnegie Stadium.
Situated out of the city towards the heart of studentsville, the stadium is a bit of a mare to get to. Especially when the international cricket comes to the area. However, the very fact that is does bring such massive games like the Ashes and One-​Day series, has to speak for itself.
It is an odd concept. The rugby pitch sitting next to the cricket field but it works. You’ll also find more bars and pubs than you can shake a stick at, so your pre match entertainment is very well catered for. If you’ve never been to a live sporting event then I can highly recommend trying out a good game of rugby league as well. It’s much more family orientated than football, less intimidating and is a quick, fast, lively sport.
The stadium itself is also great for concerts and a host of different activities and events. We should be proud of bringing top sporting action to the city and there is no doubt this stadium does just that.

I realise it’s a bit of an odd point of view, but I’m not reviewing the stadium itself — but the other elements of Carnegie that are available!
Firstly, the restaurant/​café area. The seating space is humungous — there must be over 30 tables available to sit on — so it is certainly spacious. I imagine this will be to cater for the large crowds they have during the many sports events held here, so you are likely to be able to get a seat most times but even with all that space, but I would hazard a guess that during a match break it might be busy! Having come here for a meeting I’ve sampled their cappuccinos too, which really aren’t bad, but if you want a coffee in Headingley it’s not worth coming here over the more indie haunts nearby.
The stadium also has conference rooms that are really useful for business meetings, launch events, training space and meetings. The rooms are spacious and I know that the Lewis Jones suite is kitted out with projectors, screens and a speaker stand where you can hook up your laptop to the equipment!
All in all Carnegie offers more than the casual eye would suspect.

My dad is a huge rugby league fan, so I’ve been visiting Headingley for years now. Recently though, my regular attendance has become more sporadic and it was only a few weeks ago that I paid a visit to watch my first game of this year’s Super League season — I’d been slacking.
Headingley hosts the biggest attendances in the Super League, year in, year out — so it’s no surprise that the ground has gone under some major improvements. Unfortunately, however, for the rugby league purists — some of these changes are less welcome than others.
Of course, my dad likes being able to get a pint swiftly from one of the zillions of bars now available to him on the new fancy football stadia-​like concourses and he enjoyed flashing his ticket in front of a bar code scanner, at least until the novelty wore off. He doesn’t like, however, how he can’t swap ends at half-​time so him and the few thousand others behind the sticks can will their men over the try line with a wall of noise.
The new stand at Leeds has stopped all this and the ground is fast becoming a replica of the identi-​kit stadiums which have popped up in football over recent years. Some character remains, please build on that not instead of, bigwigs!