Huntington Stadium
York, North Yorkshire, England
Huntington Stadium, York, England — opened 1989, 189 rugby league games hosted, home of None (demolished; York City Knights now play at York Community Stadium).
Sourcing caveat: No source found states the ground's spectator capacity, so that field is omitted rather than estimated.
Ground facts
| Opened | 1989 |
| Home club | None (demolished; York City Knights now play at York Community Stadium) |
| Closed | 2014 |
| Demolished | after 2015 |
| Site today | Redeveloped; a community archaeology project recorded a Roman marching-camp site there in 2015 ahead of construction of York Community Stadium (now LNER Community Stadium), which opened in December 2020 and is the current home of York City Knights. |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 189 |
| Top recorded crowd | 4,977 |
| First rugby league match | Ryedale-York 26-36 Hull Kingston Rovers, January 1990 (Wikipedia gives the club's first match there as this fixture, shortly after the venue's October 1989 completion) |
| Last rugby league match | York City Knights 24-32 Hunslet Hawks, 2014 Championship 1 Play-Off Semi-Final |
| Years used | 1989–2013 |
| Location | York, North Yorkshire |
Name history
- Ryedale Stadium — 1989-1990s, financed by Ryedale District Council
- Huntington Stadium — later name, used through closure in 2014
Rugby league history
Huntington Stadium, on Jockey Lane on the northern edge of York, was built by Ryedale District Council and completed in October 1989, initially known as Ryedale Stadium. It became the home of York Wasps and, after that club's later reformation, York City Knights, hosting rugby league in the city for a quarter of a century. Its last recorded match was a 2014 Championship 1 play-off semi-final in which the Knights lost 32-24 to Hunslet Hawks. The ground was subsequently demolished, with an archaeological survey of a Roman marching-camp site on the land carried out in 2015 before the site was redeveloped into the York Community Stadium complex, which opened in December 2020 as the Knights' new home.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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