White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre, also known as the New River Stadium is a multi-purpose

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

and athletics stadium in

Wood Green Wood Green is a suburban district of the London Borough of Haringey, London, England. Its postal district is N22, with parts in N8 or N15. The London Plan identifies it as one of the metropolitan centres in Greater London, and today it forms ...

Haringey The London Borough of Haringey ( , same as Harringay) is a London borough in north London, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London, and by others as part of Outer London. It was created in 1965 by the amalgamation of three forme ...

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, England that is home to

London Skolars The London Skolars are a rugby league club based at the White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre, New River Stadium in Wood Green, London Borough of Haringey, Haringey, North London. Founded in 1995, the club operated as a semi-professional team ...

club,

Enfield and Haringey Athletic Club Enfield and Haringey Athletic Club is an Athletics (sport), athletics club based in North London, England. The club are based at three venues; White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre, New River Stadium, Lee Valley Athletics Centre and the Queen ...

, Wood Green Weightlifting Club, Park View F.C., Haringey Rhinos rugby union club and Haringey Cycling Club. The stadium has hosted the

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, the championship game of British

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, in 2019 and 2022. The New River Stadium also hosts the Middlesex 9s

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tournament. The stadium is within walking distance of

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the home of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur in North London, replacing the club's previous ground, White Hart Lane. With a seating capacity of 62,850, it is the List of football stadium ...

. The grandstand at the ground holds approximately 1,000 people, while the ground itself has a capacity of 5,000.

Transport

Wood Green tube station on the

Piccadilly line The Piccadilly line is a Deep level underground, deep-level London Underground line running between the west and the north of London. It has two western branches which split at Acton Town tube station, Acton Town and serves 53 stations. The li ...

is the closest station to the stadium which is roughly a 15 minutes walk away. Also

Alexandra Palace Alexandra Palace is an entertainment and sports venue in North London, situated between Wood Green and Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey. A listed building, Grade II listed building, it is built on the site of Tottenham Wood and th ...

is a 30 minutes walk away which serves trains to both

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and

Moorgate Moorgate was one of the City of London's northern gates in its defensive wall, the last to be built. The gate took its name from the Moorfields, an area of marshy land that lay immediately north of the wall. The gate was demolished in 1762, but ...

White Hart Lane railway station White Hart Lane is a station on the Weaver line of the London Overground, located in Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey in North London. It is from Liverpool Street station, London Liverpool Street and is situated between and statio ...

is also around a 25-minute walk away which serves trains to Liverpool Street.

References

External links

New River Stadium on Worldstadia.com

London Skolars site

Middlesex Nines website

Haringey Cycling Club

Haringey Rhinos Rugby Club

Hashtag United website

Next Level Football League youtube channel
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