Nantporth
Bangor, United Kingdom
Formerly: Normal Site Playing Fields, Nantporth Stadium, The Book People Stadium, Bangor University Stadium, VSM Stadium, The EUROGOLD Stadium
The Bangor arena on Holyhead Road went up as the Normal Site Playing Fields before running through a string of sponsors' titles — the Book People Stadium, Bangor University Stadium, the VSM Stadium, the EUROGOLD Stadium — while locals kept calling it Nantporth.
It was never a club's own build. Bangor City Council owns the site and commissioned the work; Watkin Jones and Morbaine Ltd set up a company, Deiniol Developments, purely to put the stadium up. Ground was broken in August 2011 and the job was finished by January 2012 — five months, start to finish.
The opening, on 24 January 2012, came with a match rather than a ceremony alone: Caernarfon Wanderers were the visitors, in the North Wales Coast FA Challenge Cup. That set the tone for a venue that has spent its short life passing between tenants. Bangor City FC held it for a decade from the opening. In 2022 Llandudno FC moved in for a single season. Since 2023 it has been home to Bangor 1876 FC.
Of the 3,000 the ground holds, 1,158 are seats — a figure unchanged since the doors first opened. The rest stand. The surface is artificial, third generation, which is what keeps the pitch usable through a Gwynedd winter and lets the game flow when a grass field would have cut up. A move to a fourth-generation surface is planned for 2025.
Who plays here
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Bangor
117 matches
Recent matches here
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Sep | Bangor — Ballymena United | 2:2 |
| 29 Aug | Bangor — Carrick Rangers | 0:4 |
| 15 Aug | Bangor — Cliftonville FC | 0:3 |
| 16 Jul | Bangor — Ards | 2:0 |
| 4 Jul | Bangor — Newington Youth | 2:1 |
| 25 Apr | Bangor — Portadown | 2:4 |
| 18 Apr | Bangor — Carrick Rangers | 0:3 |
| 11 Apr | Bangor — Glenavon FC | 0:0 |