Durham Women are working with Durham Cricket to develop a new state-of-the-art facility for elite women’s football and cricket alongside current community sports.
Plans include what would be the UK’s first new stadium designed around the needs of the female athlete and fan. Both organisations have wider ambitions to create a
women’s sports hub at the Chester-le-Street Riverside Complex.
Durham are one of two independently owner women’s football teams in England that have no affiliation with a men’s team. The site would become the football clubs’ base with facilities for day-to-day training, a performance centre and administration offices. They would also be available for community use. There are also proposals to buld a 150-room hotel to create opportunities for residential sports events.
The development would link with Durham Cricket with the elite training spaces having the
potential to be used as a shared facility.
“This is a fantastic prospect to create a women’s sports hub for Chester-le-Street and the wider region,” Lee Sanders, Director at Durham Women’s FC, said. “Proposals for the site would allow for a new state-of-the-art facility specifically for women’s football and wider women’s sport, making it the first of its kind in the UK.”
