Information about Speedball
BD8 9SY, Bradford
Our comment from FitFit UK about Speedball:
Speedball is a popular sports center located in Bradford, United Kingdom, offering a variety of indoor facilities tailored for enthusiasts of football and fitness. Users rave about its:
- Friendly Staff: Many visitors highlight the helpfulness and professionalism of the staff, creating a welcoming atmosphere.
- Indoor Football Facilities: The center boasts well-maintained pitches that are great for playing 5-a-side games. Customers appreciate the quality of the playing surfaces, while some suggest a need for improvement in pitch quality.
- Gym Facilities: The gym is equipped with a range of cardio and weight equipment. Though some equipment could benefit from upgrades, the gym is generally seen as well laid out and quiet, providing a good environment for workouts.
- Sauna and Steam Room: Many users enjoy the sauna and steam room, although there have been a few concerns regarding their functionality. Some guests hope to see these areas reopen to enhance their experience further.
- Clean and Safe Environment: Feedback indicates that the facility is generally clean and well-maintained, contributing to a positive workout experience.
However, some visitors have pointed out areas needing improvement:
- Communication and Pricing Transparency: A few users experienced confusion regarding booking prices and availability. Clear communication about costs would enhance customer satisfaction.
- Equipment and Facility Maintenance: Some gym users have expressed disappointment with the condition of certain equipment and facilities, suggesting that strides should be made to ensure all machines are functional and up to date.
- Pitches Surface Issues: While the rubber material used in some pitches is appreciated for providing grip, it has been a source of discomfort for some users, and it is suggested that alterations might improve players' experiences.
Overall, Speedball presents a solid choice for indoor sports and fitness activities, with a robust community atmosphere and several positive attributes that encourage returning visitors.
Services, Machines and Guided Classes
Speedball: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Great place to book for indoor sport
Fantastic experience: Perfect place to play football and not loud nice and peaceful
Negative experience: Lying about what time they open
Fantastic experience: U guys need to reopen sauna and steam rooms i go elsewhere but i really liked and enjoyed at speedball it’s 4 minutes away from my house. All the staff were good specially Wass
Fantastic experience: Great place
Fantastic experience: Brilliant Gym. I've been going for years before they stopped the women sessions. I loved the fact that they had seperate sessions for women. Full privacy and facilities were available. Can't fault it. I just hope they open women sessions again. Please consider it Speedball
Fantastic experience: Need better pitches . Too much of the rubbery stuff. Abnormally high grip. No good for the knees
Fantastic experience: One of the best places to play football in Bradford, I go there every week with my students, the staff are good and respectable they help us with time and price
Positive experience: Great indoor gym. Mainly for indoor football. They have 3 indoor football pitch and a section for cardio and weights. The cardio and weight equipment could do with an upgrade. Sauna and steam room included and a decent shower room.
Fantastic experience: Good football pitches
Positive experience: Theres alot of loose rubber bits from the football pitches. They get the inside your trainers and become annoying during your match.
Negative experience: I joined for 3 months Due to health issues I needed Steamroom and sauna but It was cold in both Even the showers were cold
Hi Jawad.
Reall sorry to hear this.
Will look into this, to my knowledge we only had a temporary issue with the showers, which was sorted quickly.
The steam room and sauna should have been fine.
Please can you visit today on a complimentary pass and the staff will give you my personal number, if there's any issues still unresolved.
As for the duration that you've missed, we'll look into reimbursement of this.
In Sha' Allah
Fantastic experience:
Thank You Bushra
We extremely appreciate your feedback.
Fantastic experience: Excellent gym, with great customer service.
Fantastic experience: Speedball provides exceptional customer service. The organisation provides a pleasant, warm, and welcoming environment. I would strongly recommend booking the court and gym facilities.
Fantastic experience: Good
Hi
Extremely appreciated your feedback.
Looking forward to seeing you soon..
Regards
Negative experience: A fraud gym selling itself under the guise of equality and inclusivity. The gym itself is good, a range of equipment both cardio and weights but the concept of separate slots for gender at this gym is outdated and a misogynistic tool to try and pacify female gym goers. If this gym really cared about supporting women it would take into account their opinions. Women only times are non peak hours before 5pm but still pay the same as men. All gym’s which offer off peak hours charge significantly less. The idea that women don’t work or study is very much prevalent in the approach in which this gym has decided to market itself. You can immediately understand this gym is run my men who only prioritise the needs of their gender, refusing to listen to rational and fair arguments for women to be treated as paying customers for a service. Not just an afterthought for a flimsy marketing strategy of ‘women only sessions’. I am a huge advocate of safe spaces for women and women only gyms. However speedball is like other patriarchal businesses, somewhere you shouldn’t bother wasting your money. Other gyms may not provide women’s only entire gyms but they provide access to all the spaces for women at all times. Women cannot use the weights sections on weekends as men have complained it is distracting when they play football. I would like to know what is so distracting about women working out in a gym environment where people are expected to work out? The fact men have an inability to focus on a game of football they have paid to play with people of their own choice is a discredit to their ability to concentrate on the task at hand. For a local business to be taking money from a minority group ,setting conditions prioritising males is shameful. It’s an absolute disgrace women are charged £20 a month to have limited services with decision making in the hands of men who get to enjoy all the perks of the gym and pay the same amount. This gym does not empower women, the regulations applied reek of ignorance and uneducated male dominance. Women have fought for years to be given the same opportunities as men yet this gym sets back inequality in a matter of seconds with their vapid decision making.
Negative experience: Truly a gym from the dark ages, most of the equipments are broken, if you watch their videos from 2014 they still have the same equipments in the same places. Their stairmill is very dangerous, doesnt stop even if you press stop. The only good thing is the 3 monthly payments, apart from that it all quite mediocre. Toilet's often dirty, sauna and steam don't work properly. They dont even have the card scanner, you have to leave your gym card at the counter, and every gym I've been to have a scanner. Truly from middle ages this gym. Many eliptical machines have missing handles, some machine just don't turn on. Rowing machine is broken. The heavy weight room is in tatters, the ropes are old and broken. You guys need to seriously upgrade the machines. UPDATE: Cant believe you guys would lie through your teeth like that, very shady. I have reported these machines numerous times and they keep saying they have reported it and it will be fixed. It's alright, I'll post some pics in a couple days so everyone can see your lies. There is only 1 rowing machine, and the screen on it does not turn on, or if it does it keeps turning off. Same with a couple of eliptical machines. I've only joined the gym a couple days ago and only been on a couple times but already regretting. Be warned everyone, come for a 1 day pass and check for yourself.
Hi illy Milly
Since it was after midnight when you left your review, it was already too late to notify staff to go & check through everything.
Our Sunday morning staff will be notified, to check on everything you've mentioned, & rectify accordingly.
They will also go through & check the Cardio machines, weight & Resistance Machines.
I personally am abroad till next week, but our manager is in on Monday.
If you feel you can have a word with him please do so, if not please don't hesitate to contact me on our email:
[email protected]
Your membership will be reimbursed, until your happy things are to your level of expectation.
As stated already, we'd like to go through the issues with you that your stating.
We always appreciate any concerns or issues customers have so we can act on them.
For our gym to be successful we need to be made aware of issues, so we can work effectively.
If there's ever any issues, just have a word with the staff, and I'll contact you to expedite these concerns/issues.
Regards
Positive experience: Good well equipped gym with sauna and steam room. Decent football pitches.
Thank you for your review.
Please let us know what we can do to get to 5 stars.
Fantastic experience: Nice sport facility
Thank you for your feedback.
Please let us know what we need to do, to get to a five star feedback from you.
Fantastic experience: Good place
Hi Usman
Extremely appreciate your wonderful feedback.
Positive experience: Decent sized pitches, just hate the feeling of small astroturf bits going in shoes other than that it's a good place to play football
Hi Mohammed.
Unfortunately the rubber bits give the grip on your boots, and is also there to replicate the feeling on being on a outside pitch.
Positive experience: Nice little place for a 5 a side kick about. If you don't fancy that then the gym is nicely set up to look henxh or just stay fit.
Thank you for your feedback.
Please let us know what we need to do, to get to a five star feedback from you.
Negative experience: I called and spoke to Speedball and they booked us in for one of their five aside pitches. This would have been a good time for them to explain costs and also that payment would need to be cash or bank transfer. We arrived and were told that the pitch hire was £55, this sounded like a wind up and there was no offer of a discount for just two people either, or any reduction for the 45 minutes we had the pitch for. There are places in Bradford that charge significantly less, and we would have gone there had it not been for the fact they were closed on boxing day. My suggestion would be to avoid Speedball and look at other venues which provide better customer service and who are up front about costs.
Hi Sascha Mac Donald
I've just read your review, and spoke to the staff regarding your interaction at Speedball.
You rang up around 5-45pm and asked for an 8pm booking.
Our staff gave you the price of £55 for the hourly booking.
You then changed your mind and asked for a 6pm booking instead.
You turned up just after 6pm, and the staff member told you it's £55 for the hour, & you need to pay before you play.
You said something along the lines of, "Your Having a Laugh", there's only two of us, & sort a discount out".
The Staff member had to justify how the price is concluded, & said we normally have 10 players and it's £5-50 each.
You still had time to change your mind & not play, if you thought it's too expensive as you were under no obligation to play.
We charge by the hour, and not per person.
Just for clarity, all our prices are clearly stated on our website.
We also send text messages to our teams confirming the price again, & also letting the teams know to arrive 15 minutes prior to their game commencing, & to clear the payment, & have their team ready to go on, so there's no time wasted in between.
As unfortunately our staff member is fairly new, were not used to having just two people turn up.
He said he'd ask the manager, who was in another part of the building.
Manager assumed it's a full team, as the staff member forgot to mention there's only two of you.
The manager said that's our usual price we charge.
This is where the breakdown of communication occurred unfortunately.
Deepest apologies on our behalf, If the manager or myself were there, we'd let you on & would've knocked the charge on the head, as there wasn't a booking on there, & you've turned up.
It wouldn't have been a big deal to be honest, as the court would've been empty.
Having said that, this would have been at our discretion & is not company policy.
If you can pop in tomorrow at 3pm,I'll be there personally to give you a full refund.
If not one of my colleagues have been instructed to give you a refund.
Deepest apologies once again for this unfortunate misunderstanding on our part.
If you look at our reviews, extortion is not something we do.
Look forward to seeing you.
Yours Remorsefully
Bash@Speedball
Fantastic experience: Really nice place, friendly staff all under one roof
Extremely appreciate your wonderful feedback.
Positive experience: Weights, indoor Football, sauna and steam room nice and clean. A good friendly atmosphere.
Thank you for your feedback.
Please let us know what we need to do, to get to a five star feedback from you.
Positive experience: Great service always could do with sprucing up a little
Thank you for your feedback.
We've taken your comments on board, & have acted accordingly.
Fantastic experience: One stop place to have a thrilling indoor 5 a side game. Friendly staff always around to help, and snacks and drinks available to buy at your convenience!
We appreciate your feedback and are glad that we meet you're customer needs!
Fantastic experience: Brilliant gym
Thank you for your wonderful feedback.
Fantastic experience: Good pitches friendly staff decent price
Thank you for your wonderful feedback.
Fantastic experience: It's a really good place to play football. The only thing that's wrong is theres no AC
Thank you for your wonderful feedback.
Fantastic experience: A super nice place to play indoor football.
Thank you Moses for your kind words.
Fantastic experience: Playing football and meeting with colleagues and others. It usually is an hour of intense running ♀️ around with football ⚽️. Always looking forward to it.
Thank you for your wonderful feedback.
Fantastic experience: The team at Speedball are very accommodating and provided us an exceptional service. The pitches are extremely well mainrained with adequate lighting. Few of our team players travel once a week from Oldham to play!! Thanks to Bash, for allowing us a time frame if we ever turn up slightly late. We will always play at speedball after trying a few places. Highly recoomended to everyone - 5 stars all around.
Positive experience: The people running it are really nice people, they treat you well. The place is busy and for me a good place to play in. The only reason I don't give five stars is that the netting needs to be fixed at the side of the goals so that the ball doesn't squeeze in at the side. Also need to use fish eye lens on the cameras to cover the full pitch like frame 2 do.
Salaam Abdul Quddus.
We've managed to sort the issue at the bottom of the goals, so there's no chance of Football going through there, which causes confusion as to whether a goals been scored or not..
Try us again sometime..
Fantastic experience: Very nice gym
Thank you for your wonderful feedback.
Fantastic experience: Good for team football
Thanks for your honest opinion.
It's extremely appreciated.
Positive experience: Speedball has always been average. From the quality of the pitches to the service they provide. This has been the case for many years and there hasn't been any changes or anything to suggest things will get better. The pitches are heavily filled with those small black beads which can cause slips if you do t have the right footwear.
Hi Rizwan.
Thank you for your feedback.
We've made a lot of changes to our facilities.
The black rubber pellets are imperative to the game, and give you grip & the authenticity of the game.
We notify all teams before hand if wearing the right footwear, & also give examples of the type you need to play.
Please come down & try us again.
Fantastic experience: Good for all age of people mostly for youngsters
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Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and reasonably priced.
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Fantastic experience: Best service great prices☺️☺️
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Fantastic experience: Small gym which has all equipment in place
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Positive experience: Girls keeping fit, getting exercise and making friends is always a good combination!
Thank you for your feedback.
Please let us know what we need to do, to get to a five star feedback from you.
Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and very friendly staff !!
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Fantastic experience: Very good. I like the staff
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Fantastic experience: Good place to have a kick about
Positive experience: The Gym Facilities, Parking and Staff are really good but the pitches need some improvement!
Fantastic experience: ⚽️
Fantastic experience: My only gym I go to .
Positive experience: Lovely and very helpful staff there, the gym is also quite ok although when it's quite busy it's hard to use the equipment you want but it's less busy in afternoon, love the car park, and extra space to park outside, would prefer facilities being a bit cleaner that's all
Fantastic experience: Great place great people
Fantastic experience: Nice lads, clean & tidy.
Fantastic experience: Very Good points are. It is indoor so suitable for all weathers Both Female & Male staff appointed Both Female & Male couches appointed Very familiar atmosphere Girls are totally free and boys have to pay very short amount of £3 Very Clean
Negative experience: Dislocated my knee
Fantastic experience: Excellent place
Fantastic experience: The facilities offered are of very high standards
Fantastic experience: Great place to mind your own business or work in a team
Positive experience: Equipment and facilities are fine. The place could do with a cleaner as it smells rather unhygienic
Positive experience: Speedball = Home
Fantastic experience: Great 5 aside pitches. Would recommend
Positive experience: Internally it's very warm in the summer and very cold in winter, apart from that it's reasonably priced but availability for 5a-side footy is very limited due to the popularity of this place. If you have a booking, don't give it up!!!!
Fantastic experience: Amazing place if your looking to play football as there was a lot of space to play football
Positive experience: Nice place for indoor 5 aside. Very considerate of Ramadan too.
Positive experience: very nice staff and a great pitch to have a kickabout with your mates, place is nice and clean.
Fantastic experience: The gym is calm and well equipped with a wide variety of machines for strength and cardio exercises. You can get benefit of the sauna and steam bath. There are three football courts as well with hourly reservation. The gym is for ladies only morning till 4pm and from 4pm till 12am for men only.
Positive experience: Good steam room and gym nice enough staff ✌️
Fantastic experience: Nice place for workout
Fantastic experience: One of the best 5 a side football venues in Bradford. Never used the gym, but from what I've seen it looks like a top quality gym too. Best thing about the place is the abundant parking, on site and on street.
Fantastic experience: Excellent place Good prices and friendly staff
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and well maintained pitches.
Negative experience: Need to open from 12 as it opens 2 late gym ok need more machines
Fantastic experience: Brilliant staff service and facilities
Fantastic experience: very good facilities and helpful staff
Positive experience: Good venue to let the kids run around and burn off some excess Xmas energy having a kick about with their mates
Fantastic experience: Great staff
Positive experience: Great experience
Positive experience: It's okey not all that
Positive experience: مكان جيد للعب كرة القدم وخدمة جيدة
Fantastic experience: Good place to play football with friends
Positive experience: Was treat with more respect this time.
Fantastic experience: Jolly good
Positive experience: Nice astroturf football 5 or 7aside football pitches and gyms, good customer service and friendly environment
Positive experience: Only 3 pitches and are not that good. Best place in Bradford is frame 2
Fantastic experience: Great service and nicest environment. Everyone will help you
Fantastic experience: Football courts are really good, Nd they have good customer service
Positive experience: Excellent gym, realy value for price.
Positive experience: Friendly staff. Great pitches. One thing that I've realised over the summer though is that they need proper air conditioning as it's been very hot in the building recently but other than that, I've been happy with the service. Usually paying less than a fiver per player in a 5 aside game but depending on the time of day, it can also be £3 so pretty cheap too.
Fantastic experience:
Fantastic experience: Good pitches that are well maintained. Quite warm in summer but manageable.
Fantastic experience: very nice football pich
Fantastic experience: very nice football pitch and huge. awesome service and very friendly staff
Negative experience: ONLY this gym is good for suna and steam room to come and relax in the evening but otherwise it's A BIG NO TO THE GYM AS YOU CAN USE IT AFTER 4PM AND LADIES IN THE MORNING IT SHOULD BE MIXED MEN AND WOMEN together
Positive experience: Love the steam room and sauna
Positive experience: Regular 5 aside place good pitch's although the surface is a bit patchy in some areas
Positive experience: Very good indoor footy venue. Decent gym but shower facilities could be improved.
Fantastic experience: Excellent football pitches
Fantastic experience: The lads here are brilliant, fully kitted out gym, sauna and steam room & not to forget the numerous indoor football pitchs. Prices are the best aswell.
Fantastic experience: Good 5 a side football pitches
Fantastic experience: Nice pitches to play football
Fantastic experience: A member of the gym since 2011, can't ask for anything else under one roof. The price and location is great for me because I only live close by, the hours are great and staff and people who use speedball gym are very friendly and welcoming.
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