We give a run down of the National League stadiums for the 2022/23 season. The National League is the fifth tier of English Football. Thanks for watching!
No other country can compare to the size of the English Footballing system some of these clubs are truly huge for a 5th tier of a country with less than 60 million people
Argentine Football is as huge, with not one linear tier system, but a binary tier system for teams associated to AFA, and teams indirectly associated to the federation via regional leagues, having 1st and second tier unified, 3 additional tiers for associated teams, and 3 separate tiers for non-associated teams, without counting their regional leagues. Most of the teams in fact have their own "stadium", even though the economy of the country does not help the teams as much in that regard. It's good to consider that Argentina, though it is considerably bigger in size, its population is only 45 million, with 1/4 of it living near Buenos Aires. That's an additional feature all by itself, most teams are relatively close to each other and most of the cities have more than 3 teams each, all around the country.
Pleased to see you've finally done the National League. Most clubs in it these days are fully professional and several have been in higher divisions in the past, including Notts County who were founder members of The Football League in 1888 and remained in the League until 2019.
Many "recognisable" names from the past, even if your geography was poor, the names were familiar as Bob Colston read the footie results after the wrestling. Those days when bottom of Div 4 meant applying for re-election to the football league and players figuring on a new career in painting & decorating or a job on the council emptying bins if their club was that rarity that got denied by the other 91 clubs. (sure to have been politicking going on behind closed doors) It was hard on those that took the drop, unfair on those that kept getting turned down, when they were probably good enough. How such closed shops like this and guys applying to join the professional snooker gravy train getting black balled lasted so long, is hard to fathom. I'm all for meritocracy rather than patronage.
Great vid as usual! The National League is non-league by name only these days. Given the size and the financial backing of some of the teams and the fact that lots of players are fully professional. Which is a bit mad when you think about it. People making a decent living playing for the 100+th best team in the country.
You start to understand how big fotball is in England, when many of these tier 5 stadiums are just as good and big as the small stadiums of the top tier of Sweden, my home(there are like 6-7 that is bellow 10 k in attendance, even tough many are in better shape then the english tier 5 ones).
@@ObviouslyKieran There's 42,000 football teams in England, 31,000 in Germany. Germany is a larger country than England. In League 1, (3rd tier in england) there's 4 teams with 30,000 capacity, and most over 10,000 in a 24 club league table. Football is a much bigger sport here than it is in Germany.
@@ObviouslyKieran 3rd liga is third division in germany, national league is fifth division in england (and all stadiums with like 20-40.000 seats are probably just old first division teams that were relegated or smth)
This is one of your best for a few reasons (commentary as usual on point!) 1. Wealdstone- my home town. As a nipper I barely recall going to the market on the ground behind the ABC Cinema. Now a bloody Tesco. Isn’t Grosvenor Vale in Ruislip? 2. Aspirations. I love the small grounds with one stand and portacabins on the other. But your imagination let’s you look as the space around and imagine how Borehamwood increases in capacity as they glide up to the Premier League (thank you Championship Manager) 3. Depression. Quite a few great old stadiums now languishing in a non league environment. I remember Notts County and Oldham in the top flight, amongst other previous league teams like Wrexham. Goes to show how rapid ascent/ descent can be
Maidenhead United's York Road ground is the oldestt ground in the world still used by it's original team. There are older clubs, there are older grounds, but none older than Maidenhead United at York Road.
The Kop was declared unsafe and closed in 2008 - the year Wrexham were relegated from the football league. Soon to be rebuilt to provide a 5,000 seat / safe standing terrace
I enjoy that Meadow Lane is right across the River Trent from The City Ground. If the games are scheduled accordingly, you could catch two games in one afternoon.
Been a Barnet fan all my life! The stadium is called the Hive because our nickname is the Bees, and we played at Undersell Stadium opposite my house until 2012
Thank you for pronouncing 'Yeovil' correctly. The local regional news here can't even get it right. They pronounce it like an American town as in 'Exampleville'.
Chesterfield's ground which opened 2010/2011 season was built when we were in League 2, with hopes of being league 1 team. We managed it twice (also relegated twice 🙄) and managed to get to the playoffs for the championship before the former owner and his puppet totally mismanaged the club and led to 2 relegations back to back and 2 seasons of just scrapping out of relegation in the national League. I believe we are now the only team in the UK (possibly the world) owned by a charity.
The reason the word 'meadow' pops up in so many football ground names/street names near them is that they are located on what used to be (yes, you guessed it) meadows. The reason being people didn't want to build on and close to rivers that flooded, so the land was still open space in the late 19th century when football really got going.
FYI: as someone from Yeovil, Johnson park is not the local cricket ground, Yeovil CC play at Westlands Sports ground (named after the nearby factory formerly called Westlands) Also Huish Park is named as such because our old ground (which was known as the Huish athletic ground) was based in the Huish part of the town
I'm surprised he didn't mention the old grounds famous slope, it was massive! It's sad Tesco covered up that car park with the crappy 2nd floor so you can't see any of it now.
I am a Scunthorpe fan and I am happish I am seeing my club in two of your videos but I am sad we are relegated but the stadiums are cool and it will be a nice tour for us
Nice - thanks for your work . If I’m not wrong like Tim , Eastleighs’ ground is at Stoneham which has the boundary of Eastleigh Borough Council & Southampton City crossing through it. When the scummers ( I mean southampton fc ) needed to replace The Dell there was plenty of encouragement for the new ground to be in Stoneham also bordered by the M27 . Because they’re southampton they decided to build a new ground in the centre of the industrial part of the city right next to the main Weymouth to London line but without a station for supporters of home or away to conveniently use. Perhaps the Stoneham development impinged too much into Eastleigh Borough which could be an administrative headache so ex Hampshire League now big time Eastleigh remain undisturbed by their soon to be Championship rivals . Sorry if this rambles but thanks for your informative video. Cheers 👍😁
Would love to see Lamport Stadium get onto one of these lists, somehow, even if it might be as part of a theme list like "bankrupt teams", "strange stadium history/trivia" etc. It would also be on any list covering stadiums of a future North American Rugby League (NARL). - Home ground of the Toronto Wolfpack, who played in the U.K.'s Rugby Football League from 2017-2020, including promotion to Super League, signing Sonny Bill Williams and ultimately failing due to Covid19/pandemic induced bankruptcy. - Built on the site of the site of a former prison, the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women. - Across the street from the former Toronto Central Prison and a short walk to the former Provincial Lunatic Asylum (now Centre for Addiction and Mental Health). - A former industrial area turned sea of modern condo towers. - A basic stadium with a great skyline view (facing east).
Notts County is the best one, Halifax, Aldershot and Scunthorpe are really good too. edit: Torquay and Southend are great as well. Some good stadiums in this league.
@@archiewilkinson7498 yes that one is pretty good too. Hard to believe this is the 5th tier of English football. Many of these would fit in fine in top leagues in almost every other European league. It is impressive to me.
True, and another fact: Juventus play in black and white stripes because Notts County do. When they were founded, a member of the new club had some contacts in Nottingham (I think he was a former County player?) and he arranged to get some old Notts kits sent over. They've played Juve in pre-season friendlies as a tribute to the historical links. As a Forest fan I think it's terrible what's happened to them in recent years, they're a unique club and they deserve better.
@@chachar7458 I heard rumours about the kit and Juve, but I never were 100% sure about that. 4-5 years ago, County played the League One playoffs vs. Coventry… Tragic. I’m a Frankfurt supporter, but I love english Football. Especially the lower leagues from League One down to the National League (incl. North & South). Notts County is my favorite Club, but I also like Plymouth Argyle, Southend United and QPR. I was glad to see that Forest got promoted after all those years.
It’s mad that England’s 5th tier is so huge and fully professional, yet some countries like France, Spain & Germany only have 2-3 professional divisions
Nice to see the National League getting some well deserved love. So true about the away supporter scum standing in the uncovered sections (I know from experience - having been to several of these stadiums).
Shame that Wrexham are going to demolish the Kop. Probably the last traditional big Kop in the UK that hadn't been altered/vandalised by the Taylor Report.
Southend United my team are looking at building a new stadium. But we've been looking at doing that for thirty odd years! Hopefully this time it will actually happen. Up the Shrimpers 🦐
Few years time. Southend United will be moving to their new football stadium at Fossetts Way behind Waitrose supermarket. And Roots Hall to be demolished to make way for more new homes and flats being built with a communal garden.
Common “Mr The Wide” you could do some research and find out what uniforms/strip these teams are using this season. The colour of the badge and the stadia seating usually indicates the clubs colours but there are some bizarre outfits out there to be made fun of. I know you could it. You would stand out from your copiers. Show us your Aussie mullet and stand out in the crowd, like Cam Smith.
No other country can compare to the size of the English Footballing system some of these clubs are truly huge for a 5th tier of a country with less than 60 million people
Argentine Football is as huge, with not one linear tier system, but a binary tier system for teams associated to AFA, and teams indirectly associated to the federation via regional leagues, having 1st and second tier unified, 3 additional tiers for associated teams, and 3 separate tiers for non-associated teams, without counting their regional leagues. Most of the teams in fact have their own "stadium", even though the economy of the country does not help the teams as much in that regard. It's good to consider that Argentina, though it is considerably bigger in size, its population is only 45 million, with 1/4 of it living near Buenos Aires. That's an additional feature all by itself, most teams are relatively close to each other and most of the cities have more than 3 teams each, all around the country.
@@DJV_TF yes London and Buenos Aires are the two cities with more football teams than any other in the world
@@DJV_TF argentine might be huge with football but how much corruption is there? Because of what i have learned there is a lot of corruption there.
@@robin97rv yes, why?
@@DJV_TF brasil too in 5th league there is 30k 50k stadions
Pleased to see you've finally done the National League. Most clubs in it these days are fully professional and several have been in higher divisions in the past, including Notts County who were founder members of The Football League in 1888 and remained in the League until 2019.
Many "recognisable" names from the past, even if your geography was poor, the names were familiar as Bob Colston read the footie results after the wrestling. Those days when bottom of Div 4 meant applying for re-election to the football league and players figuring on a new career in painting & decorating or a job on the council emptying bins if their club was that rarity that got denied by the other 91 clubs. (sure to have been politicking going on behind closed doors)
It was hard on those that took the drop, unfair on those that kept getting turned down, when they were probably good enough. How such closed shops like this and guys applying to join the professional snooker gravy train getting black balled lasted so long, is hard to fathom. I'm all for meritocracy rather than patronage.
Notts County were in the top division as recently as the 1991-92 season, with Oldham having been in the top division in 1993-94. Madness.
Great vid as usual! The National League is non-league by name only these days. Given the size and the financial backing of some of the teams and the fact that lots of players are fully professional. Which is a bit mad when you think about it. People making a decent living playing for the 100+th best team in the country.
Please do a video of stadiums in the Argentine Primera Division. I like your videos.
Yes, I agree. The stadiums of Buenos Aires alone would be fantastic.
Bro I’ve been saying this for almost a year
You start to understand how big fotball is in England, when many of these tier 5 stadiums are just as good and big as the small stadiums of the top tier of Sweden, my home(there are like 6-7 that is bellow 10 k in attendance, even tough many are in better shape then the english tier 5 ones).
It's arguably bigger in Germany, there are 3rd Liga teams with 40,000 seater stadiums.
@@ObviouslyKieran There's 42,000 football teams in England, 31,000 in Germany. Germany is a larger country than England.
In League 1, (3rd tier in england) there's 4 teams with 30,000 capacity, and most over 10,000 in a 24 club league table.
Football is a much bigger sport here than it is in Germany.
@@ObviouslyKieran 3rd liga is third division in germany, national league is fifth division in england (and all stadiums with like 20-40.000 seats are probably just old first division teams that were relegated or smth)
@@bogdanmoldovan3516 Darlington are the only team that had a 20k seater stadium excluding teams that dropped down from the EFL.
Part of that is because of the relative population sizes of the two countries as well.
This is one of your best for a few reasons (commentary as usual on point!)
1. Wealdstone- my home town. As a nipper I barely recall going to the market on the ground behind the ABC Cinema. Now a bloody Tesco. Isn’t Grosvenor Vale in Ruislip?
2. Aspirations. I love the small grounds with one stand and portacabins on the other. But your imagination let’s you look as the space around and imagine how Borehamwood increases in capacity as they glide up to the Premier League (thank you Championship Manager)
3. Depression. Quite a few great old stadiums now languishing in a non league environment. I remember Notts County and Oldham in the top flight, amongst other previous league teams like Wrexham. Goes to show how rapid ascent/ descent can be
U want some
Finally! We get a fifth tier video. Keep up the good work!
Maidenhead United's York Road ground is the oldestt ground in the world still used by it's original team. There are older clubs, there are older grounds, but none older than Maidenhead United at York Road.
I didn't know that! Brilliant bit of footie knowledge.
For me, the English version of Torquay will always be the home of the marvellously half-assed TV hotel Fawlty Towers. Another great video!
Excellent video pal. The distinct macron Wrexham stand you referenced is similar to the stand at Fleetwood.
Bromley Boys - book written by the late Dave Roberts about following Bromley in the late ‘60s.
Also a movie was made based on the book.
More detail would be great. Wrexham is a 3 sided ground with the Kop end closed many years. Hopefully getting new 5000 safe standing end soon.
The Kop was declared unsafe and closed in 2008 - the year Wrexham were relegated from the football league.
Soon to be rebuilt to provide a 5,000 seat / safe standing terrace
I enjoy that Meadow Lane is right across the River Trent from The City Ground. If the games are scheduled accordingly, you could catch two games in one afternoon.
It's not allowed if both teams are scheduled to play at home on the same Saturday one has to move to either Friday night or Sunday
Been a Barnet fan all my life! The stadium is called the Hive because our nickname is the Bees, and we played at Undersell Stadium opposite my house until 2012
Pretty sure Spurs Womens team play there
@@PHDiaz-vv7yo they did, but they moved to Orient for 22/23
Thank you for this video. GO WREXHAM!!!
Thank you Ryan Reynolds
Like millions of fans of English soccer, I have never been to England. This video is the next best thing! Really enjoyed it!
it’s called football, not soccer
@@madeleineleahy7 Yanks and fans of both codes of rugby call it soccer, probably to wind you up.
Its crazy that the 5th league of English football has better stadiums that the 1st league of Croatian football
Lmao dude I love your humour. Hope you do stadiums for other smaller leagues. Like Belgian, Netherlands, Danish, Czech
It’s going to be a long way back Oldham good luck would love to see you come straight back
Thank you for pronouncing 'Yeovil' correctly. The local regional news here can't even get it right. They pronounce it like an American town as in 'Exampleville'.
Chesterfield's ground which opened 2010/2011 season was built when we were in League 2, with hopes of being league 1 team. We managed it twice (also relegated twice 🙄) and managed to get to the playoffs for the championship before the former owner and his puppet totally mismanaged the club and led to 2 relegations back to back and 2 seasons of just scrapping out of relegation in the national League. I believe we are now the only team in the UK (possibly the world) owned by a charity.
Crazy how many stadiums are in England! Can you give do the Scotland/Wales/N. Ireland stadiums too? Uh, I guess all of Ireland just to be safe. 😇
I wish there were more channels like yours
The reason the word 'meadow' pops up in so many football ground names/street names near them is that they are located on what used to be (yes, you guessed it) meadows. The reason being people didn't want to build on and close to rivers that flooded, so the land was still open space in the late 19th century when football really got going.
FYI: as someone from Yeovil, Johnson park is not the local cricket ground, Yeovil CC play at Westlands Sports ground (named after the nearby factory formerly called Westlands)
Also Huish Park is named as such because our old ground (which was known as the Huish athletic ground) was based in the Huish part of the town
I'm surprised he didn't mention the old grounds famous slope, it was massive! It's sad Tesco covered up that car park with the crappy 2nd floor so you can't see any of it now.
I am a Scunthorpe fan and I am happish I am seeing my club in two of your videos but I am sad we are relegated but the stadiums are cool and it will be a nice tour for us
Love your humour mate!
Halifax Town is my club and I’ve worked at the stadium for both match days and general shifts during the week 👍⚽️🏉
up the shaymen!
Nice video. Hope you do National League north and National League south when you get time.
would be cool if u covered german 3. liga stadiums and/or basketball bundesliga at some point! :)
Nice - thanks for your work . If I’m not wrong like Tim , Eastleighs’ ground is at Stoneham which has the boundary of Eastleigh Borough Council & Southampton City crossing through it. When the scummers ( I mean southampton fc ) needed to replace The Dell there was plenty of encouragement for the new ground to be in Stoneham also bordered by the M27 . Because they’re southampton they decided to build a new ground in the centre of the industrial part of the city right next to the main Weymouth to London line but without a station for supporters of home or away to conveniently use. Perhaps the Stoneham development impinged too much into Eastleigh Borough which could be an administrative headache so ex Hampshire League now big time Eastleigh remain undisturbed by their soon to be Championship rivals . Sorry if this rambles but thanks for your informative video. Cheers 👍😁
Nice one dude thr Yeovil Ovel Brilliant 🤣🇬🇧✌️
Would love to see Lamport Stadium get onto one of these lists, somehow, even if it might be as part of a theme list like "bankrupt teams", "strange stadium history/trivia" etc. It would also be on any list covering stadiums of a future North American Rugby League (NARL).
- Home ground of the Toronto Wolfpack, who played in the U.K.'s Rugby Football League from 2017-2020, including promotion to Super League, signing Sonny Bill Williams and ultimately failing due to Covid19/pandemic induced bankruptcy.
- Built on the site of the site of a former prison, the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women.
- Across the street from the former Toronto Central Prison and a short walk to the former Provincial Lunatic Asylum (now Centre for Addiction and Mental Health).
- A former industrial area turned sea of modern condo towers.
- A basic stadium with a great skyline view (facing east).
I miss Toronto Wolfack :( I support London Broncos but I used to enjoy having a Canadian team in the Super League
It's also the Argos Current Practice Facility
Can you do a college hockey arena series I would really love to see it
Yay! My team finally makes into a video!
can you please do a video on top 14 Rugby and PRO 2D
Damn son!! 😂😂 Great video
Please Do a video about The Finnish Veikkausliiga Stadiums
kinda impressed of the non league stadiums tbh
Pitching in northern Premier League stadiums please
can you make a video of the keuken kampioen stadions?
Notts County is the best one, Halifax, Aldershot and Scunthorpe are really good too.
edit: Torquay and Southend are great as well. Some good stadiums in this league.
Oldham ?
@@archiewilkinson7498 yes that one is pretty good too. Hard to believe this is the 5th tier of English football. Many of these would fit in fine in top leagues in almost every other European league. It is impressive to me.
as a gateshead season ticket holder, i can assure you that you still get a very good view despite the race track
Please do the Swedish fotballstadiums Allsvenskan Top league season 2022
Nice to know: Notts County is the oldest professional Football Club in England. ☝🏼
I would highly recommend a Video of the Chilean League 😉
True, and another fact: Juventus play in black and white stripes because Notts County do. When they were founded, a member of the new club had some contacts in Nottingham (I think he was a former County player?) and he arranged to get some old Notts kits sent over. They've played Juve in pre-season friendlies as a tribute to the historical links. As a Forest fan I think it's terrible what's happened to them in recent years, they're a unique club and they deserve better.
@@chachar7458
I heard rumours about the kit and Juve, but I never were 100% sure about that.
4-5 years ago, County played the League One playoffs vs. Coventry… Tragic.
I’m a Frankfurt supporter, but I love english Football. Especially the lower leagues from League One down to the National League (incl. North & South). Notts County is my favorite Club, but I also like Plymouth Argyle, Southend United and QPR.
I was glad to see that Forest got promoted after all those years.
@@MrMillhouse72 up the Shrimpers 🦐
Oldest in the world in fact.
I gotta get me some Dorking Wanderers merch.
I thought I'd never hear the words picturesque and Halifax mentioned within the same segment.
It’s mad that England’s 5th tier is so huge and fully professional, yet some countries like France, Spain & Germany only have 2-3 professional divisions
What’s ur point lol
National League North and South next?
Hurts to see my Oldham here, love the video tho
seems like alot of big teams in the conference now
At least you have a team, I'm a Bury fan, still breaks my heart.
Please do NAL Stadiums
6:07 is Maidenhead Utd's nickname the Hymens? 😆
Background music name?
Can't wait for the season to start, come on you Dags!
Same here. Should be a good one.
May I add that meadow park boreham wood is also home to the fictional team called walford town fc from eastenders bbc soap opera
Please do the national league north and south
Sarebbe bello se facessi la stessa cosa con la national league nord e sud (sarebbe il 6 gradini inglese)
So good... I'm gonna need a cigarette at this.
Please do wnba arenas next
You disappoint me Tim!
🎵 Oh Boundary Park
The Place to be
It's the home of the blue and tangerine! 🎵
Nice to see the National League getting some well deserved love. So true about the away supporter scum standing in the uncovered sections (I know from experience - having been to several of these stadiums).
well, away scum should not have it easy
Do the VFL grounds
Boreham Wood's ground has an abandoned bowls club next to it. Just letting you know.
The hell is Gateshead's logo? That man looks like he's about to whack me with his hershey bars and fly away
It's the Angel of the North, a local landmark. It looks a lot better than their dog's dinner of a badge, though...
Do national league north
I want more tress in stadiums
I'm a torquay fan and fun fact , there isa school behind the stadium which is a bit weird
Yeovil town went from the championship in 2013/14 to the National League
They're going to be relegated again
CHL arenas. Usports stadium. What about Canada ???
Nice humour 🙂
Thank you. How about National League North and South….😁
Does this guy do AFL and NRL stadiums in Australia?
He's done the NRL
@@sheluhcharlemayne Good I'll look it up.
Check this stadium please : Estadio Universitario Alberto "Chivo" Córdoba
Easy to see which is the best here
Shame that Wrexham are going to demolish the Kop. Probably the last traditional big Kop in the UK that hadn't been altered/vandalised by the Taylor Report.
I was in there when Wales played the USSR back in the 80's.
ICE STATION ZEBRA, THE FILM IN THE ARTIC
Do the Canadian premier league
Torquay💛
Southend United my team are looking at building a new stadium. But we've been looking at doing that for thirty odd years! Hopefully this time it will actually happen. Up the Shrimpers 🦐
1:54 bars
Few years time. Southend United will be moving to their new football stadium at Fossetts Way behind Waitrose supermarket. And Roots Hall to be demolished to make way for more new homes and flats being built with a communal garden.
please do the AHL!!
I’m a Wealdstone fan. Still like your video though 😀
Maidenhead United's York Road ground is the oldest continously used football stadium in the world
Poor Tim. He's a bit of a sandwich short of a picnic. Hopefully he'll come around sometime.
Fucksake Tim, how could you get that wrong?!
Gonna see Bramley-Moore on here in a few years…
Who are Wealdstone United? I only know Wealdstone FC.
A "Damson" joke? Makes me wonder if one day we'll see a collaboration better Wide World and Five Points Vids.
that would be the dream
Maidenhead utd, York road. The world's oldest continuously used ground! Up the mags
Dammm son
Common “Mr The Wide” you could do some research and find out what uniforms/strip these teams are using this season. The colour of the badge and the stadia seating usually indicates the clubs colours but there are some bizarre outfits out there to be made fun of. I know you could it. You would stand out from your copiers. Show us your Aussie mullet and stand out in the crowd, like Cam Smith.
National league north please!!!
The grounds in the south are better
great job england has a lot of stadiums and not including rugby
@3:16 You missed the perfect opportunity to say.
"They got a good ground for their pound."
I'll see myself out.
It's glanford Park not sands venue
10:22 Grosvenor is pronounced “grove-nur” lol
Indonesian Liga 1 plissss...
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