Quinssa ND1 Travel Guide

Coventry Rugby Football Club
Butts Park Arena, The Butts, Coventry CV1 3GE
(t) 0871 7509100 (f) 0871 7505580

Where the club is: Coventry is situated in the Midlands a little south east of Birmingham and north west of Northampton.

Club ground: Coventry’s ground is the Butts Park Arena. This is a new ground that is undergoing a massive phased redevelopment. At the moment they in the early stages of this programme. There’s disabled parking in the adjacent Albany Road car park. Butts Park Arena is located in central Coventry just a little to the west of the central ring road (A429).

Position last year: Coventry finished a respectable sixth with 16 wins out of 26 games.

Helpful sites: http://www.coventryrugby.co.uk/

How to get there:

Road: It’s either going to be the M1 exit 19 then M6 or the M40 exit 15 then A45. When you get close to the ground you have to be careful as there are several strategically placed no right turns, so follow the instructions at http://www.coventryrugby.co.uk/directions.html.

Rail: There are several ways of getting to Coventry by train. There’s an hourly service from London Euston to Rugby (with Virgin trains) then change for Coventry (again Virgin trains), this will take about two and a quarter hours. You can also go from Euston to Nuneaton (Virgin trains) then change for Coventry (Central trains), about two and a half hours or quickest of all is from London Marylebone to Leamington Spa (with Chiltern Railways) then change to Coventry (Virgin) taking about two hours. The ground is a short walk from the station, put CV1 3GE into multimap.com to plan your route.

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