The Den
London (South Bermondsey), London, England
The Den, London (South Bermondsey), England — opened 4 August 1993, 1 rugby league games hosted, home of Millwall F.C. (football); no rugby league club has ever been a tenant — a single neutral-venue Super League fixture between two clubs with no London connection.
Sourcing caveat: A separate Wikipedia page ("2015 Catalans Dragons season") appeared in initial research to attribute this same fixture to Wigan's own DW Stadium — but this is contradicted by three mutually-consistent sources (Rugby League Project, the dedicated "The Den" Wikipedia article, and the 2015 Wigan Warriors season article, all explicitly naming The Den as a neutral venue) and independently reconfirmed here via a direct Rugby League Project fetch, so we treat the DW Stadium attribution as a likely data-extraction error rather than a genuine second source.
Ground facts
| Opened | 4 August 1993 (Opened with a friendly against Sporting CP, replacing the separate, older "Old Den" (1910-1993) nearby.) |
| Home club | Millwall F.C. (football); no rugby league club has ever been a tenant — a single neutral-venue Super League fixture between two clubs with no London connection |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 1 |
| Top recorded crowd | 8,101 |
| Capacity | 20,146 all-seated, typically restricted to approximately 18,100 for segregation/safety purposes |
| Test matches hosted | 1 |
| Surface | SISGrass hybrid turf |
| First rugby league match | 5 September 2015 — Wigan Warriors 42-16 Catalans Dragons, Super League 2015 Super 8s (attendance 8,101, our recorded top and only crowd) — independently re-verified via a direct fetch of Rugby League Project's own venue results page |
| Years used | 2015 |
| Location | London (South Bermondsey), London |
Name history
- The New Den — an informal name at opening, since dropped
- The Den — the standing name today
Rugby league history
This was a neutral-venue Super League fixture — neither Wigan nor Catalans is a London club — evidently staged as a promotional exercise to bring top-flight rugby league to the capital beyond London Broncos' own fixtures, reported by Wigan's own club channels under the heading "London Calling." No further rugby league fixture has been played here before or since.
The long-standing home of Millwall F.C. (football).
Historic Test matches, Cup & Grand Finals hosted
- 5 September 2015 — Wigan Warriors 42-16 Catalans Dragons (8,101)
Pre-dates the site's structured match-by-match records for these competitions, so listed here as sourced facts rather than linked match pages.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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