Ground History
As with all county cricket clubs, Yorkshire CCC represents the historic county and not any modern or current administrative unit. In Yorkshire's case, this means the three ridings and the City of York, although the club played some home matches outside the historic borders at Sheffield's Abbeydale Park, historically part of Derbyshire, from 1974 to 1996.
Yorkshire first played at North Marine Road, Scarborough in the 1878 season. This remains the venue for the annual Scarborough Festival matches.
The club was founded on 8 January 1863 in the Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield and was initially based at Bramall Lane. Headingley Stadium was first established in 1888 and Test cricket was first played there in 1899, eight years later than it hosted its inaugural first-class match when Yorkshire played Kent in 1891, the year in which the club's headquarters moved there. The "out grounds" in Hull, Sheffield, Bradford, Middlesbrough and Harrogate were used with great success until the 1970s.
On 31 December 2005, Yorkshire County Cricket Club purchased the Headingley cricket ground for £12 million from the Leeds Cricket, Football and Athletic Company, parent company of the Leeds rugby league club, with the help of a £9 million loan from Leeds City Council. This purchase ensures that Test cricket continues at the venue with a 15-year staging agreement. On 11 January 2006, the stadium was officially renamed the Headingley Carnegie Stadium as a result of sponsorship from Leeds Metropolitan University and the club announced plans on 11 January 2006 to rebuild the stand next to the rugby ground with 3,000 extra seats, taking capacity to 20,000. The club also announced plans to redevelop the Winter shed (North) stand on 25 August 2006 providing a £12.5 million pavilion complex.
This following table gives details of every venue at which Yorkshire have hosted a first-class, List A cricket or Twenty20 match:
| Name of ground | Location | Year | FC matches |
LA matches |
T20 matches |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headingley Carnegie | Leeds | 1891–present | 424 | 247 | 44 | 716 |
| Bramall Lane | Sheffield | 1863–1973 | 391 | 5 | – | 396 |
| Park Avenue | Bradford | 1881–1996 | 306 | 48 | – | 354 |
| North Marine Road | Scarborough | 1874–present | 244 | 87 | 2 | 333 |
| The Circle | Kingston upon Hull | 1899–1990 | 88 | 19 | – | 107 |
| St George's Road | Harrogate | 1894–2000 | 91 | 5 | – | 96 |
| Fartown | Huddersfield | 1873–1982 | 72 | 9 | – | 81 |
| Acklam Park | Middlesbrough | 1956–1996 | 45 | 24 | – | 69 |
| Abbeydale Park | Sheffield | 1974–1996 | 41 | 12 | – | 53 |
| Dewsbury and Savile | Dewsbury | 1867–1933 | 43 | – | – | 43 |
| Great Horton Road | Bradford | 1863–1874 | 8 | – | – | 8 |
| Thrum Hall | Halifax | 1888–1897 | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| Shaw Lane | Barnsley | 1975–1978 | – | 4 | – | 4 |
| Recreation Ground | Holbeck | 1968–1986 | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| Swatter's Carr | Middlesbrough | 1864–1867 | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| Woodhouse Hill | Hunslet | 1869 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| College Grove | Wakefield | 1878 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Town Cricket Club Ground | Kingston upon Hull | 1879 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Linthorpe Road West | Middlesbrough | 1882 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Hall Park Ground | Horsforth | 1885 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Wigginton Road | York | 1890 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Saville Park | Castleford | 1967 | – | 1 | – | 1 |
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