Football

Book a football pitch and tell us your insurance details and fixtures

Football pitches 

You can book any of our indoor or outdoor football pitches  for a season for you or your local football club. 

Grass pitches 

There are 57 football pitches in Bristol's parks. 

You’ll need to book to use the following pitches which are only available on a Saturday or Sunday:

• Canford Park: three pitches
• Dundridge Farm: one pitch
• Eastville Park: three pitches
• Kingshead Lane: one pitch
• Muller Road Rec: (under development, some pitches may be available)
• Netham Park: five pitches
• Oldbury Court: three pitches
• Redcatch Park: two pitches
• Wellington Hill: one pitch (junior)
• Dorian Road: two pitches

Seasonal bookings

The bookable football season starts on the first Saturday in September and finishes the first weekend of May (Netham Park and Oldbury Court will close the last Sunday of April).

Check football pitch availability

If you book a football pitch for a season you must have public liability insurance and let us have your fixture details.  You can tell us your insurance and fixtures as part of the pitch booking or tell us later.

You can use the seasonal sports booking form to:

• book a football pitch for a whole season
• tell us your insurance details
• tell us your football fixtures 
• update football fixtures (football in the parks only)

Go to seasonal sports booking form

Seasonal pitch booking costs 

See parks terms and conditions for seasonal pitch booking costs

Casual pitch booking

There are no casual bookings available.

Indoor and all-weather football pitches

There are indoor and all weather football pitches at:

• Action Indoor Sports (indoor)
• Ashton Park Sports Centre (indoor and outdoor)
• Brunel Academy Fitness Centre (indoor and outdoor)
• Bristol Metropolitan College (indoor)
• Brislington Enterprise College (indoor and outdoor)
• Easton Leisure Centre (indoor)
• Henbury Leisure Centre (indoor)
• Hengrove Park Leisure Centre (indoor)
• Horfield Leisure Centre (indoor)
• Merchants' Academy Sports Centre (indoor and outdoor)
• Portway Rugby Development Centre (outdoor)
• South Bristol Sports Centre (outdoor)
• St. Paul's Community Sports Academy (indoor and outdoor)
• The Park Sports Centre (outdoor)

Find a local football club

Find a local senior or junior football team to join at:

• Gloucestershire FA database
• Somerset FA database

Football for women and girls

Find out how you can get involved in Women’s Football:

• Gloucestershire FA’s women’s and girls’ football page
• Somerset FA’s women and girls football page.

Disability football

Find out about opportunities in football for people with a disability:

• Gloucestershire FA’s disability and football page
• Somerset FA’s disability and football page

Professional football

Bristol has two professional football clubs that play either in the Championship or League One:

• Bristol City Football Club
• Bristol Rovers Football Club