Newport International Sports Village
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Newport International Sports Village is an area of multiple sport facilities, located in the southeast of Newport
, Wales
, near the A48
Southern Distributor Road
. It is known locally as Spytty Park, the name coming from the original Spytty Fields on which it is built.
The village includes the Wales National Velodrome
and a swimming pool. It also has Newport Stadium
, the home of Newport County A.F.C.
. The village has facilities for 5–a-side football
, athletics, badminton
, basketball
, cricket
, hockey
, netball
, table tennis
, tennis
(indoor and outdoor), cycling
, and squash
. There is also an astroturf
pitch beside the Tennis Centre.
Maindee
baths as Newport's senior competition pool. The pool is a 25-metre, 8-lane competition pool with a movable floor. There is also a training pool (20m x 7m) that backs onto the main pool and over 500 seats for spectators in the main pool.
Centre is one of the original buildings in the village. When the pool was built, it was built onto the existing centre. The Tennis Centre holds many sports. It also has cricket nets
in one hall
.
pitches and has been the home of Newport Cricket Club
since 1990. A pavilion
separates the two pitches with a small seating area in the pavilion looking onto one pitch. Cricket nets were installed behind the astroturf in 2003-04 for the summer months. There are also Cricket nets in the Tennis Centre for the winter.
courts and gymnasiums. There was originally 6 squash courts but the decline of squash in Newport has led to some courts being refitted to become gyms.
is used for both hockey
and Football. Many local football teams train there for upcoming games. The astroturf
is also home to a 7-a-side football league. The league has five divisions: the Premier Elite, divisions 1, 2 & 3, and the Conference. Conference games are played on Wednesday and Friday nights, and all other matches take place on Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings.
, which is owned and managed by Newport City Council
, has been upgraded to Nationwide Conference standard in recent years and has a crowd capacity of 4,700. It is used by Newport County A.F.C.
, Llanwern A.F.C. and Newport Harriers Athletic club.
, Welsh Football Trust and Newport City Council
are planning to build a National Football Centre to develop the under-21, women's and younger age-group squads. The development will include four state-of-the-art new pitches, including a top-grade artificial surface. The centre will also provide headquarters for the Welsh Football Trust, the game's development body, with analysis suites, sports science laboratories and coach education facilities also proposed.
Newport
Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent...
, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
, near the A48
A48 road
The A48 is a major trunk road in Great Britain. It runs from the A40 at Highnam west of Gloucester to the A40 at Carmarthen. Before the construction of the M4 motorway and the first Severn Bridge in the mid 1960s it was the principal route into South Wales. For most of its journey through Wales,...
Southern Distributor Road
Southern Distributor Road
The Southern Distributor Road is a principal distributor road in Newport that runs from the Coldra roundabout in the east of Newport to Tredegar Park M4 Junction 28) in the west of Newport and includes City Bridge, a bow-string arch bridge spanning the River Usk...
. It is known locally as Spytty Park, the name coming from the original Spytty Fields on which it is built.
The village includes the Wales National Velodrome
Velodrome
A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights...
and a swimming pool. It also has Newport Stadium
Newport Stadium
Newport Stadium is a football and athletics stadium in Newport, Wales. It is currently the home of Newport County A.F.C., Llanwern F.C. and Newport Harriers Athletic Club. Albion Rovers F.C...
, the home of Newport County A.F.C.
Newport County A.F.C.
Newport County Association Football Club are a professional football club based in the city of Newport, south Wales, who currently play in the Conference National, the highest level of the National League System and fifth highest of the overall English football league system...
. The village has facilities for 5–a-side football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
, athletics, badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, hockey
Hockey
Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
, netball
Netball
Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
, table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
(indoor and outdoor), cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
, and squash
Squash (sport)
Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
. There is also an astroturf
AstroTurf
AstroTurf is a brand of artificial turf. Although the term is a registered trademark, it is sometimes used as a generic description of any kind of artificial turf. The original AstroTurf product was a short pile synthetic turf while the current products incorporate modern features such as...
pitch beside the Tennis Centre.
Wales National Velodrome
The Wales National Velodrome includes a 250-metre Siberian pine track, a function room/dance studio, free weights room, fitness suite, a drug-testing room and a multipurpose indoor sports arena. It has seating for 500 spectators. The velodrome hosts the Head Office of Welsh Cycling.Swimming pool
The swimming pool was built to replace the art decoArt Deco
Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...
Maindee
Maindee
Maindee is a large inner-city area in the city of Newport, South Wales.It lies mostly within the electoral district and community of Victoria, although some areas traditionally associated with Maindee are in the Beechwood ward....
baths as Newport's senior competition pool. The pool is a 25-metre, 8-lane competition pool with a movable floor. There is also a training pool (20m x 7m) that backs onto the main pool and over 500 seats for spectators in the main pool.
Tennis Centre
The TennisTennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
Centre is one of the original buildings in the village. When the pool was built, it was built onto the existing centre. The Tennis Centre holds many sports. It also has cricket nets
Cricket nets
Cricket nets are practice nets used by batsmen and bowlers to warm up and/or improve their cricketing techniques. Cricket nets consist of a cricket pitch which is enclosed by cricket nets on either side, to the rear and optionally the roof. The bowling end of the net is left open...
in one hall
Hall
In architecture, a hall is fundamentally a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age, a mead hall was such a simple building and was the residence of a lord and his retainers...
.
Cricket pitches
The village has two cricketCricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
pitches and has been the home of Newport Cricket Club
Newport Cricket Club
Newport Cricket Club is a cricket club based in the city of Newport, Wales. The club runs 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th XIs in the SWALEC Premier Cricket League and Glamorgan and Monmouthshire League....
since 1990. A pavilion
Pavilion (structure)
In architecture a pavilion has two main meanings.-Free-standing structure:Pavilion may refer to a free-standing structure sited a short distance from a main residence, whose architecture makes it an object of pleasure. Large or small, there is usually a connection with relaxation and pleasure in...
separates the two pitches with a small seating area in the pavilion looking onto one pitch. Cricket nets were installed behind the astroturf in 2003-04 for the summer months. There are also Cricket nets in the Tennis Centre for the winter.
Newport Skate Park
The concrete Skate Park opened in October 2008 at a construction cost of over £200,000. It was designed in consultation with local skate boarders and Newport Youth Council to meet the needs of both beginners and experienced skate boarders.Squash Courts
Near the cricket pavilion are squashSquash (sport)
Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
courts and gymnasiums. There was originally 6 squash courts but the decline of squash in Newport has led to some courts being refitted to become gyms.
Astroturf
The astroturfAstroTurf
AstroTurf is a brand of artificial turf. Although the term is a registered trademark, it is sometimes used as a generic description of any kind of artificial turf. The original AstroTurf product was a short pile synthetic turf while the current products incorporate modern features such as...
is used for both hockey
Hockey
Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
and Football. Many local football teams train there for upcoming games. The astroturf
AstroTurf
AstroTurf is a brand of artificial turf. Although the term is a registered trademark, it is sometimes used as a generic description of any kind of artificial turf. The original AstroTurf product was a short pile synthetic turf while the current products incorporate modern features such as...
is also home to a 7-a-side football league. The league has five divisions: the Premier Elite, divisions 1, 2 & 3, and the Conference. Conference games are played on Wednesday and Friday nights, and all other matches take place on Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings.
Newport Stadium
Newport Stadium is the primary athletics and football venue for Newport. The stadiumStadium
A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...
, which is owned and managed by Newport City Council
Newport City Council
Newport City Council is the governing body for the city of Newport, one of the subdivisions of Wales within the United Kingdom. It consists of 50 councillors, representing the city's 20 wards. Since the 2008 election, the council has been controlled jointly by the Conservatives and Liberal...
, has been upgraded to Nationwide Conference standard in recent years and has a crowd capacity of 4,700. It is used by Newport County A.F.C.
Newport County A.F.C.
Newport County Association Football Club are a professional football club based in the city of Newport, south Wales, who currently play in the Conference National, the highest level of the National League System and fifth highest of the overall English football league system...
, Llanwern A.F.C. and Newport Harriers Athletic club.
FAW National Football Centre
The Football Association of WalesFootball Association of Wales
The Football Association of Wales is the governing body of association football in Wales. It is a member of FIFA, UEFA and the IFAB.Established in 1876 , it is the third-oldest national association in the world, and is one of the four associations The Football Association of Wales (FAW) is the...
, Welsh Football Trust and Newport City Council
Newport City Council
Newport City Council is the governing body for the city of Newport, one of the subdivisions of Wales within the United Kingdom. It consists of 50 councillors, representing the city's 20 wards. Since the 2008 election, the council has been controlled jointly by the Conservatives and Liberal...
are planning to build a National Football Centre to develop the under-21, women's and younger age-group squads. The development will include four state-of-the-art new pitches, including a top-grade artificial surface. The centre will also provide headquarters for the Welsh Football Trust, the game's development body, with analysis suites, sports science laboratories and coach education facilities also proposed.