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Test Park sports ground

Our multi-million-pound outdoor sports complex hosts practical teaching activities and a range of other recreational and competitive sporting opportunities.

About Test Park

Test Park hosts the majority of Sport at Solent football, rugby, and American football training sessions and fixtures. We welcome spectators for football fixtures or, for something different, our American football teams, Solent Redhawks and Solent Thrashers. 

Test Park also provides a vital resource for the practical training elements our students on our football degree programmes have to undertake.

Sport at Solent places a large emphasis on community engagement and the facility is also regularly used by local football clubs and training academies.

Please note, Test Park is a cashless building.

Take a virtual tour of Test Park

Virtual tour

Equipment

  • 3G all-weather floodlit (MUGA) pitch for 6 or 11-a-side football and American football.
  • FA level floodlit football pitch and stadium with seating for 100 and total capacity for 1,260 spectators.
  • Floodlit rugby training pitch.
  • Two good quality grass park football pitches.
  • Fully-equipped teaching room.
  • Six large dressing rooms with showers and toilets.
  • Floodlit parking.
  • PA system for Wessex League football matches.
  • Licensed bar and catering.
  • TV with hook-up for laptops in the teaching room.
  • Three HDMI TVs with Sky in the bar lounge.
  • Audio sound system with microphone.

Courses that use Test Park

  • BSc (Hons) Football Studies
  • BA (Hons) Sport Coaching and Physical Education (Top-Up)
  • MSc Football Performance
  • MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine in Football

This facility is available to hire

Our 3D all-weather pitch and the grass pitches can be hired for six- or 11-a-side football.

Find out more about external hire