New Central Park is a village ground just off Bath Street in Kelty, Fife, KY4 0AG, and it has been home to Kelty Hearts since 1979. The club was formed in 1975, climbed out of the juniors and reached the SPFL in 2021. For a visiting supporter it is one of the easier away days in the lower leagues: the pitch is almost on top of you, and you can be from the car park to the terrace in a couple of minutes.
If you are driving, leave the M90 at junction 4 and follow the A909 into Kelty. At the crossroads go up Main Street and take the second right into Bath Street. The track into the ground is on the left after about a hundred yards. The nearest station is Cowdenbeath, a little under three miles away. Parking fills on the bigger days. Home supporters generally use the Bath Street car park by the doctors’ surgery and the Main Street car park. Visiting cars and buses are better aimed at the Kelty Community Centre car park on Main Street, beside the school-side gate.
Turnstiles are split. Home fans come in from Bath Street, at the south end of the site. Away fans are normally sent to the north turnstiles, reached from the community centre side. When a game is segregated, visiting supporters are asked to use the North Terrace behind the goal and the North Enclosure along the touchline. Not every fixture is split, so read the club’s matchday note before you travel and then follow the stewards. The social club, which holds about a hundred, usually opens at noon on a home Saturday and has taken both sets of supporters in the past.
The club lists the capacity at 2,181, of which 353 are seats, with four disability bays in the seated stand. Some older guides quote a slightly higher figure. The only seats are on the school side, the west touchline, in a covered stand put up in 2018. Opposite it, on the east side, two covered standing enclosures run along the touchline and between them hold around a thousand. Behind each goal is a raised open terrace. The north terrace sits in front of the north goal and is the usual away end. The south terrace sits in front of the south goal and is home. On either bank you are close enough to hear the goalkeeper.
The playing surface is 3G artificial, about 100 yards by 60, and it was relaid ahead of the 2026/27 season. Floodlights have been here since 2015 and have since been upgraded to LED. There is no vast concourse. The club shop faces the hospitality lounge, pies are sold from the huts, and the social club shows the early kick-offs. Kelty’s colours are maroon and white. The competitive ground record is 2,161, against Dunfermline Athletic in August 2022. A 2012 testimonial drew about 2,300.
The north terrace is the spot if you want the goal and the away songs. The north enclosure gives you cover if the Fife rain arrives, which it often does. The school-side seats are the dry, slightly calmer option, and the place to head if you need a disability bay. Whatever you pick, you will not be watching from the back of a car park. New Central Park is small, loud enough when it fills, and about as near to the action as Scottish football still gets.