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League Two Stadiums & Stats

League Two
Angelus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In France they have Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. In Germany, 1. Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga.

In England we have four different leagues with names that seem to have been given to them for no other reason than to confuse and confound.

League Two is the third division of the football league and the fourth highest league in the country overall.

Get your head around that one.

We’ll try to explain why it’s so strangely named when we discuss the league’s history, as well as tell you how it works nowadays and what sort of stadiums you can expect to encounter should you go on a tour of League Two grounds.

Keep reading!

Stadium Stats

Stadium Year Opened Capacity Ave Attendance Record Attendance Record Attendance Match
Alexandra Stadium
Crewe Alexandra
1906 10153 5090 20000 Crewe v Tottenham (1960)
Blundell Park
Grimsby Town
1899 9052 6281 31651 Grimsby Town v Wolvers (1937)
Brunton Park
Carlisle United
1909 17949 8000 27500 Carlisle v Birmingham (1957)
Crown Ground
Accrington Stanley
1968 5450 2560 5397 Accrington v Derby (Jan 2019)
Eco-Power Stadium
Doncaster Rovers
2007 15231 7098 15001 Doncaster Rovers v Leeds (2008)
EnviroVent Stadium (Wetherby Road)
Harrogate Town
1920 5000 2747 3048 Harrogate Town v Portsmouth (11/10/2019)
Hayes Lane
Bromley FC
1937 5000 2637 10798 Bromley v Nigeria XI
Highbury Stadium
Fleetwood Town
1939 5327 3430 6150 Fleetwood v Rochdale (1965)
Holker Street
Barrow A.F.C
1909 6500 3978 16874 Barrow v Swansea Town (1954)
JobServe Community Stadium
Colchester United
2008 10105 4177 10064 Colchester Utd v Norwich (2010)
Mazuma Mobile Stadium
Morecambe
2010 6476 4002 5831 Morecambe v Sunderland (April 2022)
Meadow Lane
Notts County
1910 19841 10524 47310 Notts Couty v York City (1955)
Peninsula Stadium (Moor Lane)
Salford City FC
1978 5108 2714 4591 Salford City v Wrexham AFC (03/02/2024)
Plough Lane
AFC Wimbledon
2020 9215 7893 9215 AFC Wimbledon 3-3 Bolton Wanderers (14/8/21)
Poundland Bescot Stadium
Walsall
1990 11300 5618 11049 Walsall v Rotherham 2004
Prenton Park
Tranmere Rovers
1912 16587 6263 24424 Tranmere v Stoke City (1972)
Priestfield Stadium
Gillingham
1893 11582 6226 23002 Gillingham v QPR (1948)
Rodney Parade
Newport County AFC
1877 8700 4336 9836 Newport v Tottenham Hotspur (2018)
SMH Group Stadium
Chesterfield
2010 10504 7893 10108 Chesterfield v Maidenhead (20/04/2024)
Stadium MK
MK Dons
2007 30500 6015 30048 Rugby World Cup Fiji vs Uruguay 2015
The County Ground
Swindon Town
1896 15728 8483 32000 Swindon Town v Arsenal (1972)
Vale Park
Port Vale
1950 15695 6600 49768 Port Vale v Aston Villa (1960)
Valley Parade
Bradford City
1886 24840 15602 39146 Bradford City v Burney (1911)
Whaddon Road
Cheltenham Town
1927 7066 4609 8326 Cheltenham v Reading (1956)

Team Stats

Team Year Founded Nickname Team Owner
Accrington Stanley 1968 Stanley, Accy Stanley Andy Holt
AFC Wimbledon 2002 The Dons, The Wombles The Dons Trust
Barrow AFC 1903 The Bluebirds Paul Hornby (Local Consortium)
Bradford City 1903 The Bantams, The Paraders, The Citizens Stefan Rupp
Bromley FC 1892 The Ravens, The Lillywhites Robin Stanton-Gleaves
Carlisle United 1904 Cumbrians, The Blues Castle Sports Group
Cheltenham Town 1887 The Robins CTFC Investments Ltd & The Robins Trust
Chesterfield 1867 The Spireites Chesterfield Football Club Community Trust
Colchester United 1937 The U's Robbie Cowling
Crewe Alexandra 1877 The Railwaymen, The Alex Charles Grant
Doncaster Rovers 1879 The Rovers, Donny, Vikings Doncaster Rovers Limited
Fleetwood Town 1908 The Cod Army The Willows 96 Holdings Limited
Gillingham 1893 The Gills Brad Galinson
Grimsby Town 1878 The Mariners, Mighty Mariners, Town 1878 Partners, Mike Parker, The Mariners Trust
Harrogate Town 1914 Town, The Sulphurites Irving Weaver
MK Dons 2004 The Dons Fahad Al Ghanim
Morecambe 1920 The Shrimps, Red and White Army (Now Red and Black Army), Seasiders Bond Group Investments
Newport County 1912 The Exiles, The Ironsides, The Port, The County Huw Jenkins, Newport County AFC Supporters Trust
Notts County 1862 The Magpies, County, Notts Alexander and Christoffer Reedtz
Port Vale 1876 The Valiants, The Vale, The Valeites Synsol Holdings Limited
Salford City FC 1940 The Ammies Project 92 Ltd
Swindon Town 1879 The Robins Clem Morfuni
Tranmere Rovers 1884 Super White Army, Rovers Mark & Nicola Palios
Walsall 1888 The Saddlers Trivela Group

Ticket Prices

Stadium Season Ticket Price (Adult) Season Ticket Price (Conc) Season Ticket Price (Junior) Match Ticket Price (Adult) Match Ticket Price (Conc)
Accrington Stanley £330 - £330 £262 - £262 £79 - £149 £22 - £22 £15 - £15
AFC Wimbledon £395 - £595 £275 - £430 £70 - £165 £23 - £35 £16 - £25
Barrow AFC £315 - £370 £255 - £295 £90 - £105 £18 - £20 £15 - £17
Bradford City £349 - £349 £306 - £306 £35 - £222 £20 - £20 £18 - £18
Bromley FC £350 - £350 £280 - £280 £70 - £140 £20 - £20 £15 - £15
Carlisle United £420 - £483 £357 - £420 £23 - £153 £20 - £23 £17 - £20
Cheltenham Town €333 - €481 €241 - €333 €40 - €100 €18 - €26 €13 - €18
Chesterfield £375 - £470 £295 - £405 £103 - £160 £20 - £24 £16 - £20
Colchester United £355 - £488 £248 - £385 £28.50 - £240 £24.75 - £33.75 £19.15 - £27
Crewe Alexandra £360 - £460 £360 - £460 £0 - £100 £25 - £27 £19.5 - £21
Doncaster Rovers £275 - £345 £205 - £275 £20 - £172 £20 - £21 £16 - £17
Fleetwood Town £189 - £329 £149 - £269 £50 - £70 £23 - £28 £18 - £23
Gillingham £365 - £465 £350 - £395 £60 - £250 £22 - £25 £19 - £19
Grimsby Town £420 - £475 £300 - £325 £125 - £185 £22 - £24 £15 - £17
Harrogate Town £384 - £435 £314 - £355 £40 - £186 £22 - £25 £17 - £20
MK Dons £386.4 - £579.6 £289.8 - £434.7 £16.1 - £144.9 £24 - £28 £18 - £21
Morecambe £249 - £469 £249 - £469 £50 - £255 £20 - £25 £15 - £20
Newport County £325 - £405 £305 - £315 £32 - £190 £21 - £24 £19 - £20
Notts County £347 - £422 £249 - £271 £21.5 - £70 £22 - £24 £16 - £18
Port Vale £365 - £380 £280 - £295 £30 - £165 £25 - £26 £20 - £21
Salford City FC £242 - £308 £200 - £250 £25 - £100 £15 - £22 £12 - £19
Swindon Town £408 - £429 £308 - £319 £44 - £148.5 £21 - £24 £18 - £20
Tranmere Rovers £440 - £440 £340 - £340 £60 - £117 £23 - £26 £18 - £21
Walsall £399 - £499 £299 - £399 £23 - £138 £21 - £26 £18 - £20

League Two Stadiums

Blundell Park Grimsby Town FC
MapsMan at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

League Two is in a funny place in the English league system. It isn’t close enough to the top for teams to gain promotion and then set about completely revamping their stadium but nor is it so close to the bottom that clubs can have a small capacity and not care that much. As such the types of stadiums you’ll find if you have a look around it are all pretty similar, being as they’re neither the mega-stadia of the Premier League nor the tin-pot one horse buildings you’re more like to find in the National League.

That’s not to suggest that they’re all identical to each other and lack personality, of course. Far from it in fact. There is a real wealth of interesting stadiums to be found in the Football League’s bottom division, with some club’s having fallen from grace, bringing their comparatively large ground with them and others punching above their weight, offering a small and close-knit ground for your appreciation.

The lower reaches of the football league also don’t have to comply with the Football Associations rules for all-seated stadia, meaning that most of them will have at least some section of the ground that is terraced. If you go to League Two clubs with an expectation that comes from having spent a life watching Premier League games then you are sure to be snobbishly disappointed by what you discover. If you head along waiting for a world of individual stadiums full of bags of personality, however, then you’ll be in for a treat.

  • Alexandra Stadium
  • Blundell Park
  • Brunton Park
  • Crown Ground
  • Eco-Power Stadium
  • EnviroVent Stadium (Wetherby Road)
  • Hayes Lane
  • Highbury Stadium
  • Holker Street
  • JobServe Community Stadium
  • Mazuma Mobile Stadium
  • Meadow Lane
  • Peninsula Stadium (Moor Lane)
  • Plough Lane
  • Poundland Bescot Stadium
  • Prenton Park
  • Priestfield Stadium
  • Rodney Parade
  • SMH Group Stadium
  • Stadium MK
  • The County Ground
  • Vale Park
  • Valley Parade
  • Whaddon Road

About The League

Grimsby Town vs Southport
Steve. via Flickr

Unlike the Premier League but exactly like the other divisions in England’s Football League, League Two is competed by 24 different teams. Much like with all of the major leagues around Europe, each team plays each other twice, with one game coming at home and one away from home. The team that wins any given match is awarded three points, if the two teams draw then they share a point and the team that loses gets precisely nothing.

At the end of the season all of the points that the team had amassed during the league campaign get added together and teams are given a final place in the league standings. The three teams that finish closest to the top of the table gain automatic promotion to League One. The teams that finish between fourth and seventh, meanwhile, fight to the death. Ok that’s not true, but they do enter a play-off system, the winner of which is also promoted. The four teams that finished closest to the bottom of the League One table replace them.

There is also a system of relegation from out of League Two into what is called the National League, formerly the Conference. This happens to the bottom two clubs, with their replacements being the team that won the National League and the winner of the second to fifth placed play-off system from the lower division. It’s entirely possible we’ve made that seem more confusing than it actually is, but read it a few times and you’ll soon get to grips with it.

League Two History

Confused Football FanRight then, the weird name thing. You’ll have to stick with us for this one. Before the invention of the Premier League the names of the Football League’s divisions were quite easy to understand. The top-tier league was called Division One, the second one was called Division Two, the third was Division Three and the fourth was Division Four. Simple, no? Then the teams in Division One got greedy and wanted to keep all of the television money that was fresh on the scene to themselves, so as one they resigned from the Football League, took their ball and went home.

The Premier League’s formation in 1992 shook things up immensely, with new names needed for the Football League’s remaining divisions in order to avoid mass confusion. How little did they know what would come next… The Second Division was eventually renamed as The Championship, the Third Division became League One and the fourth Division became League Two. If we seem a little bit obsessed over the names of the leagues in England then it’s only because they’re really weird and it all makes little to no sense. Especially when you bear in mind that for a while the second-tier league was named Division One, the third-tier was Division Two and so on!

Anyway, let’s talk briefly about the origins of League Two. Between 1921 and 1958 two separate leagues played matches but they jointly formed one division. The Football League Third Division South and the Football League Third Division North both existed as their own separate entities with, as their name suggests, clubs playing in each depending on their geographical location in the country. In 1958 this geographical separation was completely abolished, with the top twelve teams from each forming the Third Division and the bottom twelve becoming the Fourth Division.

The invention of the Premier League caused problems, but things carried on roughly as they were until 2004 when another re-branding of the lower divisions of the Football League was necessary. That was when League Two as it currently is was formed, with its history as the Third Division seen as belonging to a different entity. At the time of writing it is known as Sky Bet League Two because of sponsorship.

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League Two Stadiums

Alexandra Stadium
Crewe Alexandra
Blundell Park
Grimsby Town
Brunton Park
Carlisle United
Crown Ground
Accrington Stanley
Eco-Power Stadium
Doncaster Rovers
EnviroVent Stadium (Wetherby Road)
Harrogate Town
Hayes Lane
Bromley FC
Highbury Stadium
Fleetwood Town
Holker Street
Barrow A.F.C
JobServe Community Stadium
Colchester United
Mazuma Mobile Stadium
Morecambe
Meadow Lane
Notts County
Peninsula Stadium (Moor Lane)
Salford City FC
Plough Lane
AFC Wimbledon
Poundland Bescot Stadium
Walsall
Prenton Park
Tranmere Rovers
Priestfield Stadium
Gillingham
Rodney Parade
Newport County AFC
SMH Group Stadium
Chesterfield
Stadium MK
MK Dons
The County Ground
Swindon Town
Vale Park
Port Vale
Valley Parade
Bradford City
Whaddon Road
Cheltenham Town

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