
Information about Wide Lane Sports Ground
SO50 5PE, Eastleigh
Opening hours
- sunday: 8h-17:45
- monday: 8h-22h
- tuesday: 8h-22h
- wednesday: 8h-22h
- thursday: 8h-22h
- friday: 8h-22h
- saturday: 8h-17:45
Our comment from FitFit UK about Wide Lane Sports Ground:
Wide Lane Sports Ground, located in Eastleigh, United Kingdom, offers a fantastic range of sports facilities. Users have praised the amazing staff and first-rate medical team for their friendliness and accessibility. The complex, which is part of the University of Southampton, includes well-maintained grass pitches, astro pitches, cricket, netball, and tennis courts, making it suitable for a variety of sports activities.
Visitors have highlighted the great sports facilities, including plenty of parking and good changing rooms. Additionally, the easy booking system through the UoS Sports app enhances the experience for users. Many appreciate the availability of free car parking and the overall cleanliness of the venue.
However, some users have encountered a few drawbacks, such as inconsistent pitch conditions during inclement weather, with cancellations at the slightest hint of rain. Furthermore, the lack of food and drink facilities has been a concern, particularly for those who spend extended periods at the venue. A few comments also mention rude staff experiences and the need for better drainage on pitches.
Overall, Wide Lane Sports Ground is regarded as a great place for sports enthusiasts and a solid venue for supporting local teams, with many returning regularly to enjoy the facilities.
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Wide Lane Sports Ground: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Amazing staff.
Fantastic experience: The medical team here are first rate and always friendly and accessible.
Positive experience: Great sports facilities
Fantastic experience: Free Car Parking & good football.
Fantastic experience: A sports complex belonging to the University of Southampton. They have football, cricket, netball, tennis and for sure: many more sports that I’m not even aware of. The reception building has lockers, toilets and drinking water fountains. Booking a slot for any type of play is fairly easy and straightforward via the UoS Sports app.
Negative experience: Terrible system, ever since the old supervisor left the whole place got significantly worse. The new supervisor is inconsiderate and rude. If you're famous, you get to go on whenever but if you're not then they're rude to everyone.
Positive experience: Grass pitches are moderate but they'll cancel any match/training session at the slightest hint of inclement weather. Nowhere near any food places or anywhere helpful really if you plan on spending the day there.
Positive experience: The astro pitch is very good and easy to book but they do have a tendency to cancel sessions when it rains
Fantastic experience: Great place to support your uni team. Go down and meet The Stags and Vixens if you want to get involved with American football.
Negative experience: A few hundred men and women must have attended this facility today! There are no facilities for food and drink with people arriving from an hour's journey or longer and watching or playing for 2hrs! 4 hours with no refreshments isn't acceptable and they would have made a fortune on just basic hot and cold drinks with simple snacks! Avoid or come well prepared if, its a big if, you are informed that there are no refreshments available
Fantastic experience: One of the best places to be at. Amazing facilities that the University has provided with. Friendly support staff makes it even better.
Positive experience: Lots of good quality football pitches. Nice changing rooms. Parking available. First aid available on the day I visited.
Fantastic experience: The grids
Positive experience: Great facility but the Terrace Bar is closed.
Positive experience: Grass fields are in great condition for whatever activity you want to do. Facilities are all in good working order.
Fantastic experience: Played football matches here pitches are adequate nice food and hot drink van on site
Fantastic experience: Lots of fields, pitches and courts.
Negative experience: Has only one hockey pitch and isn't water based. Hockey railings also aren't high enough Hockey Ball frequently gets hit over the fence and can potentially kill the Tennis players. The Hockey pitch dugouts have been blown away by the storm and no effort to fix it has been shown. American football goals aren't high enough either. Football pitches lack floodlights. This place is located nowhere near the main campus.
Fantastic experience: Good facilities and friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Good facility
Positive experience: The astro pitches are good. The entry and exit barriers and lights are terrifyingly haphazard. There's not much else.
Positive experience: Great pitch. Booking can be slightly tedious
Fantastic experience: Great surface and facilities
Fantastic experience: Excellent quality ground
Fantastic experience: Never been before. Such a good use of space!!!
Fantastic experience: use it occasionally, friendly staff there, well maintained site
Positive experience: To be fair it's covid so it's closed but I had need to enter the building. The sports hall had a leak in it so it was unusable. The rest of the building, that I saw, was okay but a bit tired. Plenty of parking and disabled parking directly in front of the building (and plenty more close by) Disabled entrance too so accessibility is good. Maned reception and the person was friendly.
Positive experience: Its ok
Fantastic experience: Dog walking
Positive experience: Narrow
Negative experience: Not as wide as advertised.
Fantastic experience: Well lit. Free parking
Thank you for your review Klaudia
Positive experience: Brilliant facilities clean and tidy
Fantastic experience: Great venue
Positive experience: The pavilion and hard courts are better than the cricket pitch squares. Lots of space.
Positive experience: Visited to watch a match, great venue, have request entry via intercom on the barriet
Fantastic experience: Very helpful to NCS group!
Fantastic experience: Park n ride. Good security n setting
Thank you for your review Raj
Fantastic experience: Well kept venue
Fantastic experience: Just got the bus here to the cricket ground. Looks in good condition though.
Fantastic experience: Great sports facility with new all weather pitches
Positive experience: مكان رائع وملاعب ممتازة وموقف سيارات جيد
Fantastic experience: The southampton uni grounds have great sporta facilities and is good value for money
Thank you for your review Peruano
Fantastic experience: Play there most weeks. Good pitches
Positive experience: Good facility.
Fantastic experience: Amazing facilities!
Positive experience: Nice venue, cheap drinks
Fantastic experience: plenty of parking. hot drinks
Fantastic experience: Great venue
Positive experience: Good place to sit and watch football
Fantastic experience: I attended a team building skills day here, run by the army and university... the facilities are second to none... brilliant in my opinion. There was plenty of parking, not particularly easy to get in and out of as on a busy road, site seemed secure. It is very big, so easy to get lost, worth leaving a bit of extra time to find where you are ment to be if you are unsure as I was.
Thank you for your review Chris. Our grounds staff will be pleased to hear this, we hope you enjoyed your team building day.
Fantastic experience: Went for a walk was great
Positive experience: Ok
Positive experience: Superb playing surface - teams enjoyed playing there. One minus point - coffee vending machine out of order!
Positive experience: Good pitches and changing area
Fantastic experience: Cool
Positive experience: The pitch is great. Football is great. Let me tell you what isn't...... The different coloured lines. The side line on the left is white. The right side is red. There's this other line not quite in the middle. It's so confusing. No moulded studs. It's a 4g pitch so why can't I wear moulded studs. Such a shame
Fantastic experience: Home of the mighty Southampton STAGS Afc. Great facilities with a 4g football, lacrosse and American football pitch. Beware if your an away team though that you are unlikely to leave with a win
Fantastic experience: Fantastic
Positive experience: Good sports facility, book early if you need pitches etc as it is part of the university they get first divs and they do a lot of sport
Positive experience: Very good sports center
Positive experience: Good luck with the infamous wide Lane pitches. Passing a ball around is predictable to say the least. Nice facilities and good for most sports
Fantastic experience: Great plave frwindly staff
Fantastic experience: Great facilities. Can book in advance.
Fantastic experience: Great AstroTurf pitches, rugby field, changing rooms, baseball pitch, football pitches and lighting.
Positive experience: very friendly and helpful reception for our sports fixture
Positive experience: Basically always flooded
Fantastic experience: Good 4G astroturf - lots of football pitches with ample parking - good for the plane spotters too
Positive experience: Lots of good quality pitches/facilities
Positive experience: Great pitchs for tournaments and good amenities had a good day for Southampton FC Cup
Positive experience: Toilets are a bit manky
Fantastic experience: Great experience and lovely staff with a great service.
Positive experience: Decent tennis courts and sports area, though quite far out of the city for students to travel
Positive experience: Great location for business meetings with the university
Positive experience: Probably the only thing the university has to brag about.
Positive experience: Decent Astro pitches
Positive experience: Good
Positive experience: Great facilities.
Positive experience: Good for training, but needs better drainage due to waterlogged pitches occuring often.
Fantastic experience: Great for youth football and home ground for my boys team.
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