Other Users
The stadium has been used for many sports other than football, such as rugby league, cricket, baseball and lacrosse. It has also been used by football clubs other than Bury: Manchester United and Bolton Wanderers have hosted reserve-team matches at the ground. FC United of Manchester have shared the ground since the 2005–06 season, although they are hopeful of moving to their own ground from 2012–13.
A couple of teams have "switched" their home games to Gigg Lane, including Preston N.E. for a League Cup tie in 1994. Non-league sides Rossendale United and Radcliffe Borough moved home F.A. Cup ties to Gigg Lane against Bolton (in 1971) and York City respectively.
In 1996, the stadium was used as the filming location for the TV film based on the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, where 96 Liverpool F.C. fans died as a result of a crush on the stadium's terraces. Hillsborough Stadium was seen as an unsuitable location for the film, partly to avoid causing further distress to survivors and bereaved families, and partly because the appearance of Gigg Lane was more akin to the 1989 Hillsborough than the actual stadium was seven years after the tragedy due to redevelopment.
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