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The Brewery Field, currently called The Electric Brewery Field for sponsorship reasons, is an 12,500 (1,100 seated) capacity sports stadium in Bridgend, Wales. It is the home ground of the rugby union team Bridgend Ravens. Bridgend Athletic RFC often use the ground for their home matches, as well as the Ospreys who have had selected matches in the past and will use the stadium for all their home games of the 2025-26 season.
Bridgend RFC returned in 1935, but were forced into exile once more in May 1949, after a rugby league team had signed up to take the lease of the ground. After the council acquired the ground via a compulsory purchase order, Bridgend RFC were set to return in September 1957. The stadium was in a poor state of repair: most of the outside fencing was laid to the ground, essential services including water, heating, lighting and drainage were wrecked and needed to be completely re-installed. Other repairs and building work took place over several months and just in time for the 1957/58 season and the club have remained there ever since.
Celtic Warriors played most of their home matches at the ground in their only season in 2003–04. The team was formed during the advent of regional rugby at the top level of rugby union in Wales and was the partnership of Bridgend RFC and Pontypridd RFC. The ground hosted all but 3 of the club's home games. A then capacity crowd of 10,000 saw the team host Wasps RFC in the 2003–04 Heineken Cup. The team was culled after just one season due to financial difficulties by the Welsh Rugby Union, neither Bridgend or Pontypridd had any sort of ownership of the region at the time of closure. Following the demise of the Warriors region in June 2004, the Neath-Swansea Ospreys had their borders extended to cover much of the Bridgend and Ogmore-by-Sea areas to the east. However, for logistical reasons it was decided that no home games would be played the Brewery Field.
In 2010, the Ospreys announced that their fixture against the Leicester Tigers in the Anglo-Welsh Cup would be played at Brewery Field. After achieving a record crowd for the team in the competition (6,632), the Ospreys continue to use the Brewery Field as a secondary venue. In January 2019, the Ospreys moved their Pro14 game against Ulster Rugby to the stadium after a fixture clash at the team's regular home of the Liberty Stadium. Ospreys again used the ground for their 2024 New Year's Day game against Cardiff Rugby, as well as in their Challenge Cup Round of 16 match against Sale Sharks.
2010 saw the ground host all of Wales national women's rugby union team home matches in the 2010 Women's Six Nations Championship.
It was announced in August 2015 that Bridgend Athletic RFC will play the majority of their home matches at the Brewery Field.
Crusaders played their first four seasons of their existence at the ground, to which they had ownership of, between 2006 and 2009. The team played in the lower leagues of professional rugby league during their first few years, before they were given a franchise to operate in the Super League, the elite rugby league competition in Europe, from 2009 to 2011. They played their first Super League home game at the stadium on 21 February 2009 against Hull F.C. The Crusaders won their first Super League game at Brewery Field on 13 June 2009 with a shock win against the Wigan Warriors. They re-located to The Racecourse Ground in Wrexham at the end of 2009 and disbanded two years later. It was also the headquarters of Wales Rugby League and home of the Wales national rugby league team, but they have since re-located.
! Date !! Home !! Score !! Away !! Competition !! Attendance | |
| 3,112 | |
| 1,176 | |
| 2,378 | |
| 1,456 | |
| 3,249 | |
| 1,608 |
^ not a full international, as not played to international rules (excess substitutes were used)
The 2010 FAW Women's Cup Final between Cardiff City Ladies and UWIC Ladies was played on the ground.
International football arrived at the ground for the first time in October 2010, with the venue hosting two games from the 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship qualification, with Wales hosting their group. The first game was played on 22 October, when Turkey U19s recorded a 5-1 victory over Kazakhstan U19s. The second game at the venue was between Kazakhstan U19s and Wales U19s on 25 October which ended in a 1-1 draw and ensured Wales finished second in the group and qualified for the next stage of the qualification process.
In July 2010, a story was published that many misunderstood to mean Bridgend Ravens had sole ownership of the famous ground. In fact the story was only reporting that Bridgend Ravens had finally purchased their half of the lease for the Brewery Field from Bridgend Town, having not been financially able to at the original transfer of ownership. The ground remained in 50/50 ownership between Bridgend Ravens and Bridgend Town Football Club. August 2014 was a landmark day for the Brewery Field. Bridgend Ravens announced that under a new Management Franchise Licence they would be in full charge of the day-to-day running of the ground.
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