Book a football pitch and tell us your insurance details and fixtures.
Football pitches
You can book any of our outdoor football pitches for a season. You can also hire goal nets and corner flags for the season.
If you hire equipment you'll need to pay £100 deposit per pitch.
If you need changing rooms you'll need to pay £50 deposit for a key except at Netham where security open and close the facilities.
Guide to seasonal football pitch booking
Grass pitches and costs
Youll need to book to use the following pitches which are only available on a Saturday or Sunday:
- Canford Park: three pitches
- Eastville Park: two pitches
- Kingshead Lane: two pitches
- Muller Road Rec: four pitches
- Netham Park: three pitches
- Oldbury Court: two pitches
- Redcatch Park: two pitches
- Wellington Hill: one pitch (junior)
- Dorian Road: two pitches
You can pay by direct debit in 7 monthly payments or by invoice in 2 payments in September and February.
View section 4 of the pdf football terms and conditions(213 KB) for details about pitches, facilities and costs.
Seasonal bookings
The bookable football season starts on the first weekend in September and finishes on the last Sunday in April.
Bookings for the 2024 to 25 season are now closed. Bookings for the 2025 to 26 season will open in June or July. We'll add the booking link to this page when bookings are open.
Seasonal pitch terms and conditions
See pdf parks football terms and conditions(213 KB) for terms and conditions, facilities, costs, game allowance payments and red and yellow card system.
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, fill in the document home fixtures table document(19 KB) and upload it in the seasonal sports booking form.
- update football fixtures for football in the parks only
Casual pitch booking
There are no casual bookings available.
Indoor and all-weather football pitches
There are indoor and all weather football pitches at:
- Ashton Park Sports Centre indoor and outdoor
- Brunel Academy Fitness Centre indoor and outdoor
- Bristol Metropolitan College indoor
- Brislington Enterprise College Go to https://www.activeleisuremanagement.co.uk/ (opens new window) 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:
Football for women and girls
Find out how you can get involved in Womens Football:
Disability football
Find out about opportunities in football for people with a disability:
- Gloucestershire FAs disability and football page Go to http://www.gloucestershirefa.com/players/disability (opens new window)
- Somerset FAs disability and football page Go to http://www.somersetfa.com/players/disability (opens new window)
Professional football
Bristol has two professional football clubs that play either in the Championship or League One: