# List of Glamorgan County Cricket Club grounds

Glamorgan County Cricket Club was established on 6 July 1888. The county entered the Minor Counties Championship in 1896 and competed in the competition until 1920, after which it was elevated to first-class status for the 1921 season, and has played first-class cricket since. Following their elevation to first-class status, Glamorgan alternated their home matches between Cardiff Arms Park in Cardiff and St Helen's in Swansea. It wasn't until 1966 that Glamorgan began playing at their current home ground, Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. Cardiff Arms Park played host to Glamorgan's first home fixture in first-class cricket against Sussex in 1921, as well as its first home List A fixture against Worcestershire in 1963. Forty years later Sophia Gardens played host to the club's first Twenty20 fixture against Northamptonshire. Glamorgan have played home matches at nineteen grounds, but have played the majority of their home fixtures since 1966 at the SWALEC Stadium, which also holds Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket matches.
The nineteen grounds that Glamorgan have used for home matches since 1896 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season. A twentieth ground, the Newport International Sports Village (also known as Spytty Park), staged its first County Championship game in May 2019.

## Grounds
### Minor county

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Glamorgan County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship matches before its elevation to first-class status in 1921.
| Name | Location | First | Last | Matches |
| Refs |||
| Cardiff Arms Park | Cardiff | 13 July 1896 v Worcestershire | 2 August 1920 v Surrey Second XI | 59 |
| St Helen's | Swansea | 9 July 1897 v Monmouthshire | 20 June 1920 v Cheshire | 29 |
| The Gnoll | Neath | 24 June 1908 v Carmarthenshire | 28 July 1920 v Devon | 7 |

### First-class county

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Glamorgan County Cricket Club in first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches following its elevation to first-class status in 1921.
| Name | Location | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches | First | Last | Matches |
| Name | Location | First-class | First-class | First-class | List A | List A | List A | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Twenty20 | Refs |
| Cardiff Arms Park | Cardiff | 18 May 1921 v Sussex | 13 August 1966 v Somerset | 241 | only match: 22 May 1963 v Somerset | | 1 | – | – | 0 |
| St Helen's | Swansea | 28 May 1921 v Leicestershire | 11 June 2019 v Derbyshire | 416 | 21 May 1966 v Warwickshire | 3 June 2018 v Hampshire | 142 | only match: 25 June 2005 v Warwickshire | | 1 |
| Ynysangharad Park | Pontypridd | 3 July 1926 v Derbyshire | 29 June 1996 v Pakistanis | 43 | 6 September 1970 v Essex | 25 July 1999 v Surrey | 9 | – | – | 0 |
| Cowbridge Ground | Cowbridge | 25 July 1931 v Northamptonshire | 23 July 1932 v Somerset | 10 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 |
| Stradey Park | Llanelli | 24 June 1933 v Worcestershire | 1 September 1965 v Essex | 23 | 28 August 1988 v Leicestershire | 11 July 1993 v Sussex | 9 | – | – | 0 |
| The Gnoll | Neath | 14 July 1934 v Essex | 8 July 1995 v Young Australia | 43 | 12 June 1963 v Worcestershire | 28 August 1994 v Leicestershire | 12 | – | – | 0 |
| Rodney Parade | Newport | 6 July 1935 v Leicestershire | 5 May 1965 v Warwickshire | 27 | 25 April 1964 v Worcestershire | 7 May 1989 v Gloucestershire | 3 | – | – | 0 |
| Eugene Cross Park | Ebbw Vale | 22 June 1946 v Worcestershire | 22 August 1990 v Sri Lankans | 25 | 10 August 1969 v Derbyshire | 29 July 2007 v Middlesex | 27 | – | – | 0 |
| Steel Company of Wales Ground | Margam | 23 May 1953 v Ireland | 15 June 1963 v Cambridge University | 5 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 |
| Penrhyn Avenue | Colwyn Bay | 27 August 1966 v Derbyshire | 18 August 2019 v Lancashire | 35 | 3 September 1972 v Worcestershire | 5 May 2013 v Yorkshire | 23 | – | – | 0 |
| SWALEC Stadium | Cardiff | 24 May 1967 v Indians | 12 September 2021 v Gloucestershire | 312 | 1 June 1969 v Somerset | 16 August 2021 v Essex | 251 | 16 June 2003 v Northamptonshire | 16 July 2021 v Somerset | 102 |
| The Oval | Llandudno | – | – | 0 | only match: 22 June 1969 v Leicestershire | | 1 | – | – | 0 |
| BP Oil Refinery Ltd Ground | Llandarcy | only match: 7 July 1971 v Oxford University | | 1 | – | – | 0 | – | – | 0 |
| Vicarage Field | Aberystwyth | – | – | 0 | 31 July 1977 v Essex | 27 August 1989 v Warwickshire | 2 | – | – | 0 |
| Pen-y-Pound | Abergavenny | 22 June 1983 v Worcestershire | 26 July 2005 v Bangladesh A | 15 | 10 May 1981 v Worcestershire | 5 September 1982 v Northamptonshire | 2 | – | – | 0 |
| Hoover's Sports Ground | Merthyr Tydfil | – | – | 0 | 5 June 1988 v Kent | 11 June 1989 v Middlesex | 2 | – | – | 0 |
| Parc-y-Dwrlyn Ground | Pentyrch | – | – | 0 | only match: 23 May 1993 v Northamptonshire | | 1 | – | – | 0 |
| Christ College Ground | Brecon | – | – | 0 | only match: 5 September 1993 v Zimbabweans | | 1 | – | – | 0 |
| Cresselly Cricket Club Ground | Cresselly | – | – | 0 | only match: 28 May 2007 v Surrey | | 1 | – | – | 0 |
| Spytty Park | Newport | only match: 14 May 2019 v Gloucestershire | | 1 | - | - | 0 | - | - | 0 |