Information about Sir Stanley Matthews Sports Centre

Staffordshire University, 80 Leek Rd
ST4 2YJ, Stoke-On-Trent
+441782294124

Opening hours

  • sunday: 9h-18h
  • monday: 7h-22h
  • tuesday: 7h-22h
  • wednesday: 7h-22h
  • thursday: 7h-22h
  • friday: 7h-22h
  • saturday: 9h-18h

Our comment from FitFit UK about Sir Stanley Matthews Sports Centre:

The Sir Stanley Matthews Sports Centre, located in Stoke-On-Trent, United Kingdom, is a fantastic facility that offers a wide range of opportunities for both students and the general public. Many users have praised the centre for its:

  • Vibrant and modern environment
  • Clean and tidy facilities
  • Extensive range of well-maintained gym equipment
  • Friendly and helpful staff
  • Affordable membership prices
  • Access to various sporting activities including badminton and football
  • Great location on the University campus

Visitors have found it to be a superb place for graduation preparation and staying in shape, with many highlighting the excellent gym that includes a variety of strength training equipment and facilities for cross-training. Furthermore, the facility is recognized for its cleanliness and welcoming atmosphere.

However, there are some areas for improvement noted by users, such as:

  • Parking enforcement issues leading to potential fines
  • Possible overcrowding during peak hours
  • Limited stretching area in the gym
  • Occasional complaints about the quality of carpets

Overall, the Sir Stanley Matthews Sports Centre is seen as an essential hub for fitness and sports, making it the perfect place for students and locals alike to pursue their athletic goals while enjoying a fantastic range of amenities.

Sir Stanley Matthews Sports Centre: Opinions

4.4/5 (79 Opinions)
Anil Charania 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great for graduation Prep

Andrew Brookes 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Very clean and tidy

ashwin blesson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: They have a good badminton court. Good lighting and friendly front desk.

Carl Baker 1 year ago

Positive experience: Good place and cheap

Nathan Lindor 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing facility

Dan Phillips 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym Great equipment Well maintained Helpful staff Plenty of availability

Ogunniyi Diekola 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good place to keep the body in shape

Isobel Finney 2 years ago

Positive experience: Were able to get what we wanted

Peter Cassidy 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean and lovely... Good staff

Andrew Foster 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Superb facilities situated on the University campus

Daniel Ward 2 years ago

Negative experience: Crep bar which was expensive very poor choice

graham bale 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place,part of stafford,University, very smart modern accessible, sports centre and access to university

fayemi lanre 2 years ago

Positive experience: Well equipped gym.

Ian Jenkinson 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good place to access the River Trent restoration. An exemplar for nature regeneration and conservation

Bukola Motunrayo Olujobi 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent place to play ball

Anastasia T 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Geeat

Thomas Mutonono 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely place for educational purposes, keep up the good work.

Peter Masheter 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Absolutely fantastic place for any kind of sporting activities- indoor or out !!

Binta Amin-Ruprecht 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best as always

Sebastian 2 years ago

Positive experience: Decent gym. Can get pretty busy at peak times since its free for students living on campus.

Sean Dobson 2 years ago

Positive experience: Been coming here since the dawn of man when it started off as the polytechnic college across the road the staff are very friendly and helpful cant say enough and the gym is not to shabby lol.

Adam Bailey 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Pitches are in great condition, lighting is also good

Bryan Oguttu 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: A good place to work out Properly equipped

Ryan Clews 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing facilities welcoming staff and really cheap memberships for the gym. Also the biggest I've been with plenty of equipment. Would definitely recommend

Martin Alderton 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Gown hire goes on here

Susan Lowery 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very clean and people very friendly

Jamie L 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place, that are clean and have an abundance of equipment.

NATALIE Gray 3 years ago

Positive experience: Car park and toilets available in the sports complex. Plenty of space to h the football txh a bit patchy. Overall an ok experience! Now to get home!!

Alan Addison 3 years ago

Positive experience: Only in there for an hour to watch momentum cheer do their showcase

MUHAMMAD WaSeeq 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I visited that place. The place is very nice, the view just behind that building is awesome.

Pete Edwards 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: A great sports centre offering lots of activities

Tony Gater 3 years ago

Positive experience: Went there to get covid booster only

Jayden Beddall 4 years ago

Positive experience: Actually a really good gym on campus. Loads of deadlifting pads, the most I've saw out if the 4 gyms I've been to, 2 squat racks. There is a larger range of equipment I've seen in this gym than any other gym despite its size. I only come from a small town so the gyms don't include incline bench presses (the gym group and pure gym) and some don't even have bumper plates (pure gym). Staff were always nice too and the price is the cheapest you can get so excellent value for money.

sic parvis magna 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Ottima palestra, vi sono presenti una miriade di macchinari e pesi. Durante questo periodo non era necessario indossare la mascherina durante gli allenamenti, era solo richiesto di pulire gli attrezzi con delle salviette disinfettanti fortnite in ogni stanza.

Ryan Hackett 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities for strength training. I'm only a beginner but it has everything I need and more.

Chloe Lomas 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Has plenty of gym equipment to go around, free water to top up your bottles and is very cheap.

Sekti Wicaksono 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym in a Campus

A Mitchell 5 years ago

Negative experience: They now use a private parking enforcement company to charge facility users to park here. £70 breach of contract fines for going over the time you've paid for. No reimbursements of parking charges are offered for those paying to use their facilities, with charges applying 24/7.

Johanna Grötzbach 5 years ago

Positive experience: The girls lockers are nice and clean, so are the showers. They also get nice and warm once you’ve run them a couple of times. The gym itself has most of the equipment required, and a good CrossFit room. The only things I don’t like are, that the area with mats for stretching or doing other workouts is very small, and that I am missing one or two machines. Altogether I enjoyed the time spent at the gym.

That Spaceman 5 years ago

Positive experience: Staffordshire University run sports centre. Mediocre, gym is adequate for amateur gym goers, professionals may not be impressed and will probably want to go else where. The main hall is OK, but not overally huge!

Alban Biba 5 years ago

Positive experience: Good options for students

AA G. 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: After browsing the internet to see what the gym looked like I judged the book by its cover and thought this will not do for me, however I decided to have a physical look since they don't really have a proper website and I was impressed by the functional training room which is something I love using....I have now been going to it most days of the week and doing nice long sessions...so if you are not big on machines but love Olympic bars, kettlebells, jumping boxes etc....then this is for you. They do have machines but not enough to go around during peak times.......Enjoy!

Joshua Love 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Started attending as a university student, very good machines and not too packed, also alot of helpful staff!

Suez Phidd 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Granddaughter enrollment for univercity

Tom Campbell 6 years ago

Positive experience: Pretty good fitness center.

Shenade 6 years ago

Negative experience: Tjf

Yozzer Hughes 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good range of facilities and has good staff.

Frankie Carter 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good gym

Jake Humphreys 6 years ago

Negative experience: Carpets were below par, 10/10 would exam again

Coffee With Kays 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Welcoming, friendly, was there for a third year dissertation testing. Good staff and I like the interior decor of the uni.

Gabriel Radvan 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place for doing sport

Muhammed Saidykhan 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities

Nigel Brookes 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Ok

John Meltzer 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Quality place

Amanda Toguri 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility

John Brentnall 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Perfect place

Peter 6 years ago

Positive experience: I love this place! This is an essential utility in life. My big need is satisfied. I love the treadmills—because if it rains or the weather is otherwise awful, which often is, one must run on a treadmill. Gave one star less because of the lack of steam room.

Josh Griffin 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place, lucky enough to sign up this year to the Sir Stanley Matthews gym, staff are very friendly and well suited to the job, looking forward to spending a lot of time here!

Mark Bradbury 7 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly staff good equipment

Claire Mills 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: 3g pitch and sports centre always clean and tidy. Friendly staff. Great parking

Anthony Goldstraw 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good lay out

Edward Twigge 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: No clue. Is this staffs uni?

Sue Ammann 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities

dave o hara 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place to work out

ArchangelLoki 7 years ago

Positive experience: I was here for exams and there's no warmth beyond a handful of portable heaters

David Maguire 7 years ago

Positive experience: It's ok

Gus Safo 7 years ago

Positive experience: Cool and friendly environment.

Asan 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic gym, excellent equipment and friendly and helpful staff. 10 out of 10

Phil King 8 years ago

Positive experience: Nice clean sports hall and viewing area. Toilets rather far from the hall and viewing area could do with some seats.

Erwan CHABAUD 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great and clean gym, nice equipment and the staff is cool.

Frederick Kell 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Part of Stafford University complex well kitted out and clean

Maxie Gee 8 years ago

Positive experience: Good student membership price. Extensive selection of equipment.

James Taylor 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym with good equipment, plenty of classes to take

Josh Trathowen 8 years ago

Positive experience: A clean & modern sports training venue.

Monstercat 14 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Greate place to work out

Jon Gotham 9 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing selection of brand new gym equipment in a clean vibrant setting. Helpful staff.

Ben Robbins 9 years ago

Positive experience: Play football here, nice pitches although they feel a bit heavy to run on when it's been dry.

Haris Naeem 9 years ago

Positive experience: Its got great football facilities

Ray Jay 9 years ago

Positive experience: Uni sport gym for students however can be by locals for a bit of extra fee. Good machines

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