List of Yorkshire County Cricket Club grounds

Yorkshire County Cricket Club was established on 8 January 1863; prior to that an informal county organisation had existed before, and had occasionally appeared in first-class cricket, typically playing as Sheffield. It has since played first-class cricket from 1863, List A cricket from 1963 and Twenty20 cricket from 2003, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Great Horton Road in Bradford played host to the clubs inaugural home first-class fixture in 1863 against Nottinghamshire, while a century later its first home List A fixture was played at Acklam Park in Middlesbrough against the same opponents, and forty years later the clubs first home Twenty20 fixture was played at Headingley against Derbyshire. Yorkshire have played home matches at 21 grounds, but today play the majority of their home fixtures at Headingley, which also holds Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket matches. The clubs original home ground at Bramall Lane also held one Test match in 1902.

The 21 grounds that Yorkshire have used for home matches since 1863 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.

Grounds

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Yorkshire County Cricket Club in first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches.

Name	Location	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	Refs
		First-class			List A			Twenty20
Great Horton Road	Bradford	22 June 1863 v Nottinghamshire	10 August 1874 v Lancashire	7000800000000000000♠8	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[1][2]
Bramall Lane	Sheffield	27 July 1863 v Surrey	4 August 1973 v Lancashire	7002393000000000000♠393	20 July 1969 v Derbyshire	24 June 1973 v Leicestershire	7000500000000000000♠5	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[3][4][5][n 1]
Swatter's Carr	Middlesbrough	19 September 1863 v Kent	2 September 1867 v Lancashire	7000200000000000000♠2	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[6][7]
Dewsbury and Savile Ground	Dewsbury	25 July 1867 v Cambridgeshire	17 May 1933 v Essex	7001530000000000000♠53	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[8][9]
Recreation Ground	Holbeck	9 July 1868 v Lancashire	26 August 1886 v Derbyshire	7000300000000000000♠3	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[10][11][n 2]
Woodhouse Hill Ground	Hunslet	only match: 12 July 1869 v Cambridgeshire		7000100000000000000♠1	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[12][13][n 3]
Fartown Ground	Huddersfield	28 August 1873 v Nottinghamshire	17 August 1955 v Gloucestershire	7001720000000000000♠72	1 June 1969 v Sussex	9 May 1982 v Worcestershire	7000900000000000000♠9	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[14][15][16][n 4]
North Marine Road Ground	Scarborough	7 September 1874 v Middlesex	15 August 2014 v Sussex	7002242000000000000♠242	30 July 1969 v Nottinghamshire	13 August 2014 v Derbyshire	7001900000000000000♠90	10 July 2011 v Durham	30 June 2013 v Durham	7000300000000000000♠3	[17][18][19][20][n 5]
College Grove Ground	Wakefield	only match: 13 June 1878 v Sussex		7000100000000000000♠1	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[21][22]
Argyle Street	Hull	only match: 12 June 1879 v Surrey		7000100000000000000♠1	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[23][24][n 6]
Park Avenue	Bradford	13 June 1881 v Kent	20 June 1996 v Leicestershire	7002307000000000000♠307	31 August 1969 v Northamptonshire	23 June 1996 v Leicestershire	7001480000000000000♠48	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[25][26][27][n 7]
Linthorpe Road West Ground	Middlesbrough	only match: 20 July 1882 v Australians		7000100000000000000♠1	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[28][29]
Hall Park Ground	Horsforth	only match: 20 July 1885 v MB Hawke's XI		7000100000000000000♠1	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[30][31]
Thrum Hall	Halifax	30 July 1888 v Gloucestershire	10 June 1897 v Kent	7000400000000000000♠4	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[32][33]
Wigginton Road	York	only match: 9 June 1890 v Kent		7000100000000000000♠1	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[34][35]
Headingley	Leeds	13 June 1881 v Kent	23 September 2014 v Somerset	7002438000000000000♠438	29 June 1969 v Worcestershire	28 August 2014 v Durham	7002257000000000000♠257	14 June 2003 v Derbyshire	25 July 2014 v Nottinghamshire	7001540000000000000♠54	[36][37][38][39][n 8]
St George's Road	Harrogate	16 August 1894 v Leicestershire	18 July 1996 v Hampshire	7001910000000000000♠91	25 April 1970 v Surrey	30 June 1973 v Durham	7000400000000000000♠4	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[40][41][42][n 9]
The Circle	Hull	10 July 1899 v Somerset	6 July 1974 v Worcestershire	7001880000000000000♠88	22 June 1969 v Essex	10 June 1990 v Surrey	7001190000000000000♠19	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[43][44][45][n 10]
Acklam Park	Middlesbrough	28 July 1956 v Glamorgan	6 June 1996 v Surrey	7001450000000000000♠45	22 May 1963 v Nottinghamshire	2 July 1995 v Gloucestershire	7001240000000000000♠24	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[46][47][48]
Savile Park	Castleford	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	only match: 25 May 1967 v Cambridgeshire		7000100000000000000♠1	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[49][50][n 11]
Abbeydale Park	Sheffield	22 May 1974 v Warwickshire	9 May 1996 v Derbyshire	7001410000000000000♠41	10 June 1982 v Zimbabweans	12 May 1996 v Derbyshire	7001120000000000000♠12	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[51][52][53]
Shaw Lane	Barnsley	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	21 May 1975 v Nottinghamshire	13 May 1978 v Surrey	7000400000000000000♠4	–	–	5000000000000000000♠0	[54][55]

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