page_title: Lancaster City F.C.
section_title: Stadium
hierarchical_section_title: Lancaster City F.C. / Stadium
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the main stand
context_page_description: Lancaster City Football Club is an English semi-professional non-league football club based in the northern city of Lancaster, Lancashire. They currently compete in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football, and play at Giant Axe. They are full members of the Lancashire County Football Association.
context_section_description: The club play at Giant Axe, located in a picturesque setting and shadowed to the east by Lancaster Castle, Lancaster railway station and Lancaster Priory, all from where the ground can be seen and reached with a short walk. The River Lune and Lancaster City centre are also in close proximity. It has been their home ground since the formation of the present club in 1911, although the first club to bear the name Lancaster also played there. Giant Axe was given its name as it was the centrepiece of a sports club, the exterior wall which was, when viewed from above, the same shape as an axe head. In those early years tennis, cricket and bowls were also played at the ground,  with the football pitch being at the centre of a huge circle of grass called 'the sixpence', which also featured four cricket pitches. The ground has seen many changes since those early days and was renovated in the 1970s when the original main grandstand and then the original social club were both destroyed by fire and a new main stand was built. A social club, The Dolly Blue Tavern was built when the ground was again modernised in the 1990s with the West Road Terrace being added and modern plastic seating being installed in the main stand.
  The Giant Axe layout consists of the 513-seat Main Stand, named the John Bagguley Stand after the club's late president. There are turnstiles located in three corners of the ground. Next to the main stand are the players and officials changing facilities, a supporters' bar named Netbusters, the directors lounge, toilets and The Dolly's Diner refreshments kiosk. The open West Road Terrace is situated behind one goal and a covered terracing called The Shed, now renamed The Neil Marshall Stand in memory of City's legendary and popular long-serving captain, at the other. Opposite the Main Stand is the Long Side, an open terrace that also plays host to a second supporters bar, a raised sponsors hospitality lounge and the dugouts. The club offices are now in the club car park behind the West Road Terrace.
  Lancaster City's social club The Dolly Blue Tavern, which included the club offices and was built and opened in 1995, was located by the club car park. However, the club closed in August 2012 and has since been redeveloped into sheltered accommodation.
caption: Main Stand at Giant Axe
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