Information about Wide Lane Sports Ground

Sport and Wellbeing, University of Southampton, Wide Lane
SO50 5PE, Eastleigh
+442380592119

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
Wide Lane Sports Grounds were opened in 2005 by UoS Alumnus and Sports Broadcaster, John Inverdale. The University has invested £4.3 million in the re-development of the 76 acre facility in partnership with Eastleigh Borough Council and the Football Foundation Facilities: 2 Floodlit Synthetic turf pitches 8 Floodlit tennis courts (2 non-floodlit also available at Avenue Campus) Large pavilion with conference rooms and bar Team Southampton Gym* - a dedicated Strength and Conditioning facility Sports Performance Centre Grass Pitches

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.

Services, Machines and Guided Classes

Strength And Condition
Tea
Tennis Court

Wide Lane Sports Ground: Opinions

4.2/5 (80 Opinions)
Paul Hopkins 10 months ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing staff.

Simon Giles 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: The medical team here are first rate and always friendly and accessible.

Mike Punt 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great sports facilities

Kev Bennett 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Free Car Parking & good football.

Milan Tharaka Siyambalapitiya 1 year ago

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.

Oskar Polaczyk 1 year ago

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.

Mike Price 1 year ago

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.

chris lacy 1 year ago

Positive experience: The astro pitch is very good and easy to book but they do have a tendency to cancel sessions when it rains

Sarah Cunningham 1 year ago

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.

Keith 1 year ago

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

Ravi Singh Pokhariya 2 years ago

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.

bernard duggan 2 years ago

Positive experience: Lots of good quality football pitches. Nice changing rooms. Parking available. First aid available on the day I visited.

Tom Robinson 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: The grids

Steve 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great facility but the Terrace Bar is closed.

Tinashe Chatindiara 3 years ago

Positive experience: Grass fields are in great condition for whatever activity you want to do. Facilities are all in good working order.

Cairnsfitness Cairnsfitness 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Played football matches here pitches are adequate nice food and hot drink van on site

Wade Wilson 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lots of fields, pitches and courts.

Kevin Wang 3 years ago

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.

Elliot Larkin 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good facilities and friendly staff

Paul Selby 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good facility

Jamie Macleod 4 years ago

Positive experience: The astro pitches are good. The entry and exit barriers and lights are terrifyingly haphazard. There's not much else.

Lloyd Thomas 4 years ago

Positive experience: Great pitch. Booking can be slightly tedious

Rob Carroll 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great surface and facilities

muhammad faisal 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent quality ground

Matthew Welland 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Never been before. Such a good use of space!!!

Y Li 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: use it occasionally, friendly staff there, well maintained site

C G Ellison 4 years ago

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.

Michal Kowalski 5 years ago

Positive experience: Its ok

Kieren Dipple 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Dog walking

Steven Ayres 5 years ago

Positive experience: Narrow

Mark Collyer 5 years ago

Negative experience: Not as wide as advertised.

Klaudia Osmalek 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well lit. Free parking

Wide Lane Sports Ground
Wide Lane Sports Ground

Thank you for your review Klaudia

Jonathan Bailey 6 years ago

Positive experience: Brilliant facilities clean and tidy

david shaw 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great venue

David Peck 6 years ago

Positive experience: The pavilion and hard courts are better than the cricket pitch squares. Lots of space.

Elaina B 6 years ago

Positive experience: Visited to watch a match, great venue, have request entry via intercom on the barriet

Flo Southwell 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very helpful to NCS group!

Raj Wagh 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Park n ride. Good security n setting

Wide Lane Sports Ground
Wide Lane Sports Ground

Thank you for your review Raj

Simon Pickett 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well kept venue

malcolm colman 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Just got the bus here to the cricket ground. Looks in good condition though.

Steve Saunders 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great sports facility with new all weather pitches

Alharbi Turki 6 years ago

Positive experience: مكان رائع وملاعب ممتازة وموقف سيارات جيد

Peruano Extraviado 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: The southampton uni grounds have great sporta facilities and is good value for money

Wide Lane Sports Ground
Wide Lane Sports Ground

Thank you for your review Peruano

Tristan P-J Lester 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Play there most weeks. Good pitches

Richard Harris 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good facility.

Joshua Ball 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing facilities!

Harrison Brown 6 years ago

Positive experience: Nice venue, cheap drinks

Annette Lanchester-Harding 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: plenty of parking. hot drinks

Chris Blake 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great venue

Dawn Stansbridge 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good place to sit and watch football

Chris Lugg 6 years ago

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.

Wide Lane Sports Ground
Wide Lane Sports Ground

Thank you for your review Chris. Our grounds staff will be pleased to hear this, we hope you enjoyed your team building day.

steven morris 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Went for a walk was great

Steve Rumbell 6 years ago

Positive experience: Ok

Geoff Buckwell 6 years ago

Positive experience: Superb playing surface - teams enjoyed playing there. One minus point - coffee vending machine out of order!

Jim Boyne 7 years ago

Positive experience: Good pitches and changing area

Abukhoree Yusuh 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Cool

Marc Collins 7 years ago

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

Thomas Dawson 7 years ago

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

lyle percival 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic

Mark Tucker 7 years ago

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

Len Hall 7 years ago

Positive experience: Very good sports center

Ray Effah 7 years ago

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

hid0582758 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great plave frwindly staff

Olly Wright 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities. Can book in advance.

Jake Maddocks 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great AstroTurf pitches, rugby field, changing rooms, baseball pitch, football pitches and lighting.

Dan moss 7 years ago

Positive experience: very friendly and helpful reception for our sports fixture

Will Doyle 7 years ago

Positive experience: Basically always flooded

I Nwachuku 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good 4G astroturf - lots of football pitches with ample parking - good for the plane spotters too

Kyle Gentleman 8 years ago

Positive experience: Lots of good quality pitches/facilities

Alistair Craven 8 years ago

Positive experience: Great pitchs for tournaments and good amenities had a good day for Southampton FC Cup

Oli “Olibob” Tennent 8 years ago

Positive experience: Toilets are a bit manky

Jay Grinyer (coastalcake) 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great experience and lovely staff with a great service.

Elliott Teed 8 years ago

Positive experience: Decent tennis courts and sports area, though quite far out of the city for students to travel

Jason Liu 8 years ago

Positive experience: Great location for business meetings with the university

Michelle Gajewski 8 years ago

Positive experience: Probably the only thing the university has to brag about.

Adam Durston-Hillyer 8 years ago

Positive experience: Decent Astro pitches

zubair hazni 8 years ago

Positive experience: Good

Ethu Crorie 9 years ago

Positive experience: Great facilities.

Angus B. Clark 9 years ago

Positive experience: Good for training, but needs better drainage due to waterlogged pitches occuring often.

Andrew Curtis 9 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great for youth football and home ground for my boys team.

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