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The Odsal Sporting Village
For forty five years from 1954 to 1999 Odsal Stadium held the record for the world’s largest ever rugby league crowd – 102,569. Although today that honour rests with Stadium Australia, Sydney’s premier rugby league venue and home to the 2000 Olympics, on such prestigious and enduring foundations is laid Grattan Stadium’s recent revival - first as home to the world champion Bradford Bulls and, more recently, with the launch of a unique sporting, cultural and leisure environment – the Odsal Sporting Village. Phase one of the Odsal Sporting Village development – the Coral Conference & Banqueting Stand - is already complete: work on phase two is scheduled to commence soon.

The Stadium
Although known the world over as a Rugby League ground, Grattan Stadium has successfully hosted many other sports including speedway, stock car racing, basketball featuring the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters, cricket, wrestling, show jumping and the Asian sport of Kabaddi. Plans for the Odsal Sporting Village envisage state-of-art, all-weather floodlit pitches for cricket and soccer, an athletics track, tennis courts and an Olympic-scale swimming venue - together with a range of other health, sports and leisure facilities including a 3,500 person indoor arena. New corporate hospitality, enhanced conferencing & banqueting and a hotel complete the vision. On-site park-and-ride for 1500 cars will link the Odsal Sporting Village with Bradford’s city centre transport interchange.

Sports
This approach fits superbly with Sport England's strategy for sport in the community and the concept of enabling a variety of sports to work closely with the local professional sports club, take advantage of the latter’s brand and expertise and then for the professional club, the community at large and local government to work together to develop and implement a city-wide sporting strategy that will deliver benefits locally, regionally and nationally.

Transport Links
Today, with its easy proximity to the M1/M62 motorway network and to Leeds-Bradford Airport, the Odsal sporting and leisure complex combines an excellent outdoor stadium for summer events with a modern indoor facility capable of hosting a wide range of year-round activities for up to 300 persons. As the Sporting Village development comes on stream the potential for Grattan Stadium to become the North’s destination of choice for sporting, cultural and leisure events seems certain to be fully realised.