Edinburgh Rugby Stadium

L'Edinburgh Rugby Stadium, connu sous le nom de Hive Stadium pour des raisons de naming, est un stade de rugby à XV situé à Édimbourg, en Écosse.

1. Description

Le stade est situé à côté du Murrayfield Stadium et de sa patinoire (en), sur un terrain où se trouvaient auparavant plusieurs terrains d'entraînement de rugby (dont certains subsistent encore), dans le quartier de Saughtonhall (en). Achevé le 16 février 2021, il a une capacité de 7 800 places.

1. Installations

Le stade se compose de quatre tribunes :

la Main Stand au Nord, de 2 047 places ; la Murrayfield Stand à l'Est, de 1 480 places ; la Lothian Stand au Sud, de 2 704 places ; la Riverside Stand à l'Ouest, de 1 564 places. Des places pour les personnes handicapées sont disponibles dans toutes les zones du stade, avec une terrasse réservée aux personnes handicapées dans la tribune Nord.

1. Notes et références

(en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Edinburgh Rugby Stadium » (voir la liste des auteurs).

1. Liens externes

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Edinburgh Rugby Stadium

The Edinburgh Rugby Stadium, officially known as the Hive Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a rugby union stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the home of Edinburgh Rugby, one of Scotland's two professional rugby clubs. The stadium is located next to Murrayfield Stadium and Murrayfield Ice Rink, beside the Water of Leith adjacent to the Saughtonhall and Balgreen neighbourhoods. It has a capacity of 7,800, and was completed on 16 February 2021.

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Murrayfield Ice Rink

Murrayfield Ice Rink is a 3,800-seat multi-purpose arena in Edinburgh, Scotland, adjacent to Murrayfield Stadium and situated between the Murrayfield, Roseburn and Saughtonhall neighbourhoods. It was built between 1938 and 1939 (but was not used for its intended purpose until the 1950s, having been used as a store during the Second World War) and is home to the Edinburgh Capitals ice hockey team and a seven-sheet curling rink which was constructed in the 1970s following the closure of Haymarket Ice Rink.

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Scottish Rugby Union

The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU; Scottish Gaelic: Aonadh Rugbaidh na h-Alba) is the governing body of rugby union in Scotland. Now marketed as Scottish Rugby, it is the second-oldest Rugby Union, having been founded in 1873. The SRU oversees the national league system, known as the Scottish League Championship, and the Scottish National teams. The SRU is headed by the President (Keith Wallace) and Chairman (John McGuigan), with Mark Dodson acting as the chief executive officer. Dee Bradbury became the first female president of a Tier 1 rugby nation upon her appointment on 4 August 2018.

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Saughtonhall

Saughtonhall is a residential neighbourhood in the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, bordering Balgreen directly to the south and south-west, Murrayfield to the north (on the opposite side of Corstorphine Road (A8)), Carrick Knowe golf course to the west (bounded by the route of the Corstorphine Branch railway which is now a section of the pedestrian John Muir Way), and sports facilities (including Murrayfield Stadium, Murrayfield Ice Rink, Edinburgh Rugby Stadium and Roseburn Park cricket ground) on the opposite bank of the Water of Leith and its walkway to the east, connected by several footbridges which now also incorporate flooding defences. It is within the Corstorphine/Murrayfield ward under the City of Edinburgh Council.

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Murrayfield

Murrayfield is an area to the west of Edinburgh city centre in Scotland. It is to the east of Corstorphine and north of Balgreen, Saughtonhall and Roseburn. The A8 road runs east–west through the south of the area. Murrayfield is often considered to include the smaller neighbouring areas of Ravelston (to the north) and Roseburn (to the south).

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