Manchester sport, ground by ground

Manchester United Football Club (Old Trafford)

Grounds and venuesPublished

The entry for the city’s largest ground is not about football. It is a hospitality and conference pitch, written for an events buyer, and that tells you what a venue index was for.

Kept as published, nickname and all. The museum and tour that the same ground sells to visitors show up again in the archive’s special offers, and the business of selling a stadium on its non-matchdays is a running subject in Business.

An open brass pocket compass on a white surface
A pocket compass. Pitch orientation is settled with one of these long before the first stand is drawn. Photo: Richard Nevell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Labelled the ‘Theatre of Dreams’, Old Trafford is one of the most spectacular sporting venues in the world. A stadium which sees breathtaking football on the pitch also boasts greatness off it with world-class hospitality and the finest non-matchday conference and events setting.

So whether you arrange to hold a party in one of the many suites, immerse yourself in the club’s history by taking a stadium tour or guarantee yourself tickets to a big game by taking in match day hospitality, you’ll see exactly why Old Trafford is an award-winning, world-class venue.

Capacity and access details are quoted from the source named in the piece; grounds are rebuilt and relicensed.