Home of Weston-super-Mare AFC
Since 2004
Capacity 3,500
★★★★★
★★★★★
Our 45 wedding anniversary party,staff lovely and hard working. Toilets smelly, main room scruffy, seats dirty, once we dressed the tables and room it was great. Recommdations to the male manager explain charges at booking better, explain deposit extra to charge at point of booking, and get your head out of the clouds and show a little more respect to clients like the staff do.
2 months ago
A good looking stadium for what you pay to get into. Parking was free when I visited however not sure what this may be for league fixtures. Food is decently prices for the portions you receive HOWEVER with no takeaway box how am I meant to juggle a box of chips and a burger at the same time? Aside from this you wont have a bad time visiting here as a neutral or away fan. Leaving the ground after a game is relatively traffic free.
6 years ago
History (from Wikipedia)
Ground[edit]
Weston-super-Mare A.F.C. play their home games at Optima Stadium on Winterstoke Road, where the club moved to in August 2004. They previously played at Woodspring Park a short distance away. The move marked the third time in the past 40 years that Weston-super-Mare have changed venues. The capacity of Optima Stadium is 3,500 in which 2,000 is covered and 350 are seated.[22]
Woodspring Park had been built almost entirely by supporters and boasted a clubhouse costing £100,000.[3] The Park had been the home of Weston-super-Mare since 1983 and had floodlights installed in 1986.[3] The ground nearly had a greyhound track around the pitch, an idea which chairman Paul Bliss shot down.[8] Weston-super-Mare sold this ground to a residential home builder when it became apparent the club was going to move the short distance to the Optima Stadium. The last home fixture was played in April 2004.[22]
The ground for what is now Optima Stadium was formerly a sporting complex owned by Westland Aircraft known as Westland Sports Ground. It was home to cricket and football in addition to social buildings. Difficult financial times forced Westland to reconsider their place in town and put the ground up for sale. The club purchased it for £270,000 in 2001.[22] The Stadium opened 14 August 2004, with its first match against Conference South opponents Hornchurch drawing 500 people to the game.
The record attendance for this ground 2,949 in a match in the FA Cup against Doncaster Rovers on 18 November 2014.
Weston-super-Mare A.F.C. play their home games at Optima Stadium on Winterstoke Road, where the club moved to in August 2004. They previously played at Woodspring Park a short distance away. The move marked the third time in the past 40 years that Weston-super-Mare have changed venues. The capacity of Optima Stadium is 3,500 in which 2,000 is covered and 350 are seated.[22]
Woodspring Park had been built almost entirely by supporters and boasted a clubhouse costing £100,000.[3] The Park had been the home of Weston-super-Mare since 1983 and had floodlights installed in 1986.[3] The ground nearly had a greyhound track around the pitch, an idea which chairman Paul Bliss shot down.[8] Weston-super-Mare sold this ground to a residential home builder when it became apparent the club was going to move the short distance to the Optima Stadium. The last home fixture was played in April 2004.[22]
The ground for what is now Optima Stadium was formerly a sporting complex owned by Westland Aircraft known as Westland Sports Ground. It was home to cricket and football in addition to social buildings. Difficult financial times forced Westland to reconsider their place in town and put the ground up for sale. The club purchased it for £270,000 in 2001.[22] The Stadium opened 14 August 2004, with its first match against Conference South opponents Hornchurch drawing 500 people to the game.
The record attendance for this ground 2,949 in a match in the FA Cup against Doncaster Rovers on 18 November 2014.
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