Sportcity
A single site holding a football stadium, a velodrome, a squash centre and an athletics arena is the whole of the city’s bidding case in one postcode, and this record is where the archive makes that case directly.
The visit and event figures are the archive’s own, kept as published, as is the note on what the site was originally built for. The individual venues inside it have their own records in the venues index.
Sportcity is the largest concentration of sporting venues in Europe. Originally developed for the Commonwealth Games in 2002, it is now the home of Manchester City Football Club, Manchester Velodrome, the National Squash Centre and Manchester Regional Arena. Sportcity hosts over 400 events each year and attracts 4.5 million visits.
Sportcity has successfully developed world-class sports and events venues providing facilities for elite and professional athletes as well as developing a strong community programme.
Capacity and access details are quoted from the source named in the piece; grounds are rebuilt and relicensed.