page_title: Falmer Stadium
section_title: Rugby Union
hierarchical_section_title: Falmer Stadium / Rugby Union
caption_attribution_description: English: An aerial view of the American Express Community Stadium in Falmer.
context_page_description: Falmer Stadium, known for sponsorship purposes as the American Express Community Stadium, or colloquially as The Amex, is a football stadium in the village of Falmer, in the City of Brighton and Hove, Sussex, that serves as the home of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.. The stadium was handed over from the developers to the club on 31 May 2011. The first competitive game played at the stadium was the 2010–11 season final of the Sussex Senior Cup between Brighton and Eastbourne Borough on 16 July 2011. The first league game was against Doncaster Rovers, who were also the opponents in the last game played at Brighton's former stadium, the Goldstone Ground, 14 years earlier.
  Falmer Stadium hosted Premier League football for the first time in August 2017, following Albion's promotion at the end of the 2016–17 season.
  The stadium was designed to allow hosting for other sports and events. It hosted some matches from the 2015 Rugby World Cup, under the guise of the Brighton Community Stadium.
context_section_description: The stadium hosted two Pool B matches in the 2015 Rugby World Cup, labelled as the Brighton Community Stadium. The first match was between South Africa and Japan on 19 September 2015 where with 29,290 in attendance, Japan caused one of the biggest upsets in Rugby World Cup history by beating twice winners South Africa 34–32. The other match was between Samoa and United States with Samoa winning 25–16 with 29,178 in attendance. Before them, as a trial run pre-World Cup, the stadium hosted the England U20s vs France U20s match in the final round of the 2015 Six Nations Under 20s Championship.
  In 2019 a film was produced telling the story of the match between Japan and South Africa, called The Brighton Miracle.
  The stadium was also nominated by Premiership Rugby as the potential home semi final location for Wasps in the 2014-15 European Champions Cup. Defeat in the quarter final vs Toulon however meant this did not happen.
caption: An aerial photograph of the stadium, 2011.
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