Leigh Sports Village

Leigh Sports Village Stadium
Sport Village or LSV
	Interior of the stadium, May 2008
Full name	Leigh Sports Village Stadium
Address	United Kingdom
Location	Leigh, Greater Manchester, England WN7 4GX
Coordinates	53°29′28″N 2°31′44″W / 53.491°N 2.529°W
Owner	Leigh Sports Village Company Ltd; Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council;
Operator	Leigh Sports Village Company Ltd
Capacity	12,000
Record attendance	12,005 ; Widnes Vikings vs Castleford Tigers; 10 August 2014
Surface	Desso GrassMaster
Construction
Built	2007–2008
Opened	28 December 2008
Construction cost	£17.5m
Main contractors	Hall Construction
Tenants
	Rugby League; Leigh Leopards (2008–present); Football; Leigh Genesis (2009–2010); Blackburn Rovers Reserves (2009–2015); Manchester United Reserves (2014–present) ; Manchester United W.F.C. (2018–present)

Leigh Sports Village is a multi-use sports,^[5] retail and housing development in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. The centrepiece of the development is a 12,000-capacity stadium which is home to professional rugby league team Leigh Leopards, Manchester United's Under-21 and Academy teams, and Manchester United W.F.C. The complex also plays host to amateur rugby league club Leigh East and amateur athletics club Leigh Harriers, who both occupy dedicated facilities on the site. Other facilities on site include the Leigh campus of Wigan and Leigh College, Leigh Sports Centre, which includes a gym, multi-use sports hall and swimming pool, a Holiday Inn Express hotel, a Morrisons supermarket and the Whistling Wren pub. During 2022, it hosted matches in the UEFA Women's Euro 2022.

^ "Leigh Sports Village".
^ ^a ^b Hall gets the go-ahead for Leigh stadium^{[permanent dead link]}, Contract Journal. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
^ "Widnes Vikings 6–28 Castleford Tigers". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
^ "Stadium | Leigh Sports Village". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
^ "Leigh Sports Village – Wigan Council". Archived from the original on 22 November 2008.

[1] "Leigh Sports Village".

[contract-2] Hall gets the go-ahead for Leigh stadium^{[permanent dead link]}, Contract Journal. Retrieved 5 January 2009.

[attendance-3] "Widnes Vikings 6–28 Castleford Tigers". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2019.

[4] "Stadium | Leigh Sports Village". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2008.

[facilities-5] "Leigh Sports Village – Wigan Council". Archived from the original on 22 November 2008.

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