List of Yorkshire County Cricket Club grounds

Yorkshire County Cricket Club was established on 8 January 1863; prior to that an informal county organisation had existed before, and had occasionally appeared in first-class cricket, typically playing as Sheffield. It has since played first-class cricket from 1863, List A cricket from 1963 and Twenty20 cricket from 2003, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Great Horton Road in Bradford played host to the club's inaugural home first-class fixture in 1863 against Nottinghamshire, while a century later its first home List A fixture was played at Acklam Park in Middlesbrough against the same opponents, and forty years later the club's first home Twenty20 fixture was played at Headingley against Derbyshire. Yorkshire have played home matches at 21 grounds, but today play the majority of their home fixtures at Headingley, which also holds Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket matches. The club's original home ground at Bramall Lane also held one Test match in 1902.

The 23 grounds that Yorkshire have used for home matches since 1863 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.

Grounds

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Yorkshire County Cricket Club in first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches.

Name	Location	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	Refs
		First-class			List A			Twenty20
Great Horton Road	Bradford	22 June 1863 v Nottinghamshire	10 August 1874 v Lancashire	8	–	–	0	–	–	0	[1] [2]
Bramall Lane	Sheffield	27 July 1863 v Surrey	4 August 1973 v Lancashire	393	20 July 1969 v Derbyshire	24 June 1973 v Leicestershire	5	–	–	0	[3] [4] [5] [n 1]
Swatter's Carr	Middlesbrough	19 September 1863 v Kent	2 September 1867 v Lancashire	2	–	–	0	–	–	0	[6] [7]
Dewsbury and Savile Ground	Dewsbury	25 July 1867 v Cambridgeshire	17 May 1933 v Essex	53	–	–	0	–	–	0	[8] [9]
Recreation Ground	Holbeck	9 July 1868 v Lancashire	26 August 1886 v Derbyshire	3	–	–	0	–	–	0	[10] [11] [n 2]
Woodhouse Hill Ground	Hunslet	only match: 12 July 1869 v Cambridgeshire		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[12] [13] [n 3]
Fartown Ground	Huddersfield	28 August 1873 v Nottinghamshire	17 August 1955 v Gloucestershire	72	1 June 1969 v Sussex	9 May 1982 v Worcestershire	9	–	–	0	[14] [15] [16] [n 4]
North Marine Road Ground	Scarborough	7 September 1874 v Middlesex	3 September 2023 v Derbyshire	263	30 July 1969 v Nottinghamshire	3 August 2023 v Lancashire	100	10 July 2011 v Durham	30 June 2013 v Durham	3	[17] [18] [19] [20] [n 5]
College Grove Ground Pavilion End	Wakefield	only match: 13 June 1878 v Sussex		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[21] [22]
Argyle Street	Hull	only match: 12 June 1879 v Surrey		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[23] [24] [n 6]
Park Avenue	Bradford	13 June 1881 v Kent	20 June 1996 v Leicestershire	307	31 August 1969 v Northamptonshire	23 June 1996 v Leicestershire	48	–	–	0	[25] [26] [27] [n 7]
Linthorpe Road West Ground	Middlesbrough	only match: 20 July 1882 v Australians		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[28] [29]
Hall Park Ground	Horsforth	only match: 20 July 1885 v MB Hawke's XI		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[30] [31]
Thrum Hall	Halifax	30 July 1888 v Gloucestershire	10 June 1897 v Kent	4	–	–	0	–	–	0	[32] [33]
Wigginton Road	York	only match: 9 June 1890 v Kent		1	–	–	0	–	–	0	[34] [35]
Headingley	Leeds	24 August 1891 v Kent	26 September 2023 v Worcestershire	485	29 June 1969 v Worcestershire	6 May 2019 v Durham	275	14 June 2003 v Derbyshire	22 June 2023 v Birmingham Bears	110	[36] [37] [38] [39] [n 8]
St George's Road	Harrogate	16 August 1894 v Leicestershire	18 July 1996 v Hampshire	91	25 April 1970 v Surrey	30 June 1973 v Durham	4	–	–	0	[40] [41] [42] [n 9]
The Circle	Hull	10 July 1899 v Somerset	6 July 1974 v Worcestershire	88	22 June 1969 v Essex	10 June 1990 v Surrey	19	–	–	0	[43] [44] [45] [n 10]
Acklam Park	Middlesbrough	28 July 1956 v Glamorgan	6 June 1996 v Surrey	45	22 May 1963 v Nottinghamshire	2 July 1995 v Gloucestershire	24	–	–	0	[46] [47] [48]
Savile Park	Castleford	–	–	0	only match: 25 May 1967 v Cambridgeshire		1	–	–	0	[49] [50] [n 11]
Abbeydale Park	Sheffield	22 May 1974 v Warwickshire	9 May 1996 v Derbyshire	41	10 June 1982 v Zimbabweans	12 May 1996 v Derbyshire	12	–	–	0	[51] [52] [53]
Shaw Lane	Barnsley	only match: 25 August 1862 v All England Eleven		1	21 May 1975 v Nottinghamshire	13 May 1978 v Surrey	4	–	–	0	[54] [55] [56]
Clifton Park	York	17 June 2019 v Warwickshire	17 June 2019 v Warwickshire	1	3 August 2021 v Warwickshire	17 August 2023 v Hampshire	6	–	–	0	[57] [58] [59]
Riverside Ground	Chester-Le-Street	–	–	0	–	–	0	24 August 2021 v Sussex	24 August 2021 v Sussex	1	[60] [61]

Notes

1. Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground after 1863 are recorded in the table.
2. Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
3. Only the first-class match played by Yorkshire at the ground is recorded in the table.
4. Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
5. Only the first-class and List A matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
6. Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
7. Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
8. Only the first-class and List A matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
9. Only the first-class and List A matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
10. Only the first-class matches played by Yorkshire at the ground are recorded in the table.
11. The Marylebone Cricket Club played a List A match here against the touring Zimbabweans in 2000. Only the List A match played by Yorkshire at the ground is recorded in the table.

References

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3. "Bramall Lane, Sheffield". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
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6. "Swatter's Carr, Middlesbrough". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
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10. "Recreation Ground, Holbeck". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
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12. "Woodhouse Hill Ground, Hunslet". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
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14. "Fartown, Huddersfield". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
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36. "Headingley, Leeds". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
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40. "St George's Road, Harrogate". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
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43. "The Circle, Hull". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
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49. "Savile Park, Castleford". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
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51. "Abbeydale Park, Sheffield". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
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54. "First-Class Matches played at Shaw Lane, Barnsley (1)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
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60. "Riverside Ground, Chester-Le-Street". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
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