Historic Headingley Stadium
Headingley Stadium was built in 1890 for Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Company on fields at the top of Cardigan Road, bought from the Cardigan estate the year before by three local residents. The Stadium comprises a cricket ground to the north on Kirkstall Lane, and a rugby ground to the south on St Michael’s Lane, with a joint stand facing both ways. It became home to Yorkshire Councty Cricket Club and the Leeds rugby club. A century later (in 2005) the Stadium was bought from the original Company by the Cricket Club, and was managed jointly by YCCC and Leeds Rugby (comprising Leeds Rhinos and Yorkshire Carnegie RUFC). In 2020, the union club (originally Headingley FC) left Headingley (as Leeds Tykes). For more info, click here for the clubs, cricket, league and union.
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