List of venues in the United Kingdom

There are many venues in the United Kingdom where a variety of national and international sport, musical and entertainment acts perform.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

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Stadium	City	Capacity	Notes	Refs
American Express Stadium	Brighton and Hove	31,876
Anfield	Liverpool	61,276
AESSEAL New York Stadium	Rotherham	12,021
Bramall Lane	Sheffield	32,050
Buxton Blues Festival	Aldwark	500
Bloodstock Open Air	Catton Hall, Derby	20,000
Celtic Park	Glasgow	64,411
Etihad Stadium	Greater Manchester	60,000
Clapham Common	London	20,000
JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester	17,000		^{[citation needed]}
Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry	32,753 (seated)
Craven Park	Kingston upon Hull	12,225–20,000
Creamfields	Daresbury	70,000
Download Festival	Donington Park	110,000		^[6]
Easter Road	Edinburgh	20,421
Eco-Power Stadium	Doncaster	15,231
Elland Road	Leeds	37,792
Emirates Old Trafford	Greater Manchester	50,000
Emirates Stadium	London	60,704
Ewood Park	Blackburn	31,367
Finsbury Park	London	40,000
Falkirk Stadium	Falkirk	25,000
Glasgow Summer Sessions	Glasgow	35,000
Glastonbury Festival	Near Pilton	210,000		^[7]
Gloworm Festival	Thoresby Park	20,000
Goodison Park	Liverpool	39,572
Hampden Park	Glasgow	51,866
Highest Point Festival	Williamson Park	35,000
Hill Dickinson Stadium	Liverpool	52,769
Hillsborough Stadium	Sheffield	34,835
Hyde Park	London	150,000 (1996), approximately		^{[citation needed]}
Ibrox Stadium	Glasgow	50,817
In the Park, Sefton Park	Liverpool	40,000		^[8]
Kelburn Garden Party, Fairlie		4,000
King Power Stadium	Leicester	32,500
London Stadium	London	80,000	Formerly Olympic Stadium
Meadow Lane	Nottingham	19,841
MKM Stadium	Kingston upon Hull	25,400
Molineux Stadium	Wolverhampton	30,000 (incl. boxes can equal 31,700)
Murrayfield Stadium	Edinburgh	67,144 (seated)
Nass Festival	Shepton Mallet	15,000
National Bowl	Milton Keynes	65,000 (Standing)
Oakwell Stadium	Barnsley	23,287
Old Trafford	Greater Manchester	74,879
One Call Stadium	Mansfield	10,022
Pittodrie Stadium	Aberdeen	20,866
Pride Park Stadium	Derby	33,597
Principality Stadium	Cardiff	74,500
Reading and Leeds Festival		80,000
Riverside Festival Glasgow	Glasgow	10,000
Roundhay Park	Leeds	79,999		^[9]
Shambala Festival	Kelmarsh	25,000
Sincil Bank	Lincoln	10,669
SMH Group Stadium	Chesterfield	10,292
Stadium of Light	Sunderland	60,000
Stadium MK	Milton Keynes	30,500
STōK Racecourse	Wrexham	13,341
Swansea.com Stadium	Swansea	21,088
Terminal V	Edinburgh	20,000
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium	London	62,000
Tramlines Festival	Sheffield	50,000
TRNSMT	Glasgow Green, Glasgow	50,000
Truck Festival	Steventon	30,000
Twickenham Stadium	London	82,000
Tynecastle Park	Edinburgh	20,099		^[10]
Wembley Stadium	London	90,000	New; 2007–present
Wembley Stadium	London	82,000 (seated)	Old; 1923–2000
Y Not Festival	Pikehall	30,000
Villa Park	Birmingham	42,682

Name	Location	Capacity	Notes	Refs
bp pulse LIVE	Birmingham	13,928 to 15,643
Utilita Arena Cardiff	Cardiff	7,500 (standing); 5,000 (seated)
Co-op Live	Manchester	23,500
Copper Box Arena	London	7,500
Drumsheds	London	15,000
Earls Court Exhibition Centre	London	20,000	Open 1887–2014
Earls Court Two	London	10,750	Open 1991–2014
First Direct Bank Arena	Leeds	13,500
Lee Valley VeloPark	London	7,000
M&S Bank Arena	Liverpool	11,000; 4,000 (ECHO 2); (1,350) auditorium
London Arena	London	12,500	Open 1989–2006
AO Arena	Manchester	21,000
Motorpoint Arena Nottingham	Nottingham	10,000
The O2 Arena	London	20,000
The O2 Belfast	Belfast	11,058		^[11]
OVO Arena Wembley	London	12,500
OVO Hydro	Glasgow	13,000
P&J Live	Aberdeen	16,000
SEC Centre	Glasgow	12,500
Utilita Arena Birmingham	Birmingham	16,000
Utilita Arena Newcastle	Newcastle	11,000
Utilita Arena Sheffield	Sheffield	13,500

Name	Location	Capacity	Notes
EventCity	Manchester	9,360 (Hall 3); 4,500 (Hall 4)	Open 2011–2021
Exhibition Centre Liverpool	Liverpool	7,000 (standing, combined halls); 2,400 (per hall)
ExCeL London	London	5,000 (ICC Auditorium), 65,000 (event halls)
Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre	Farnborough	12,000 (Hall 1); 3,150 (Hall 5)
The Grand Hall, Olympia London	London	7,000 (standing), 4,000 (seated)
Great Hall, Alexandra Palace	London	10,250 (standing), 7,250 (seated)
ICC Wales	Newport	1,500 (Tiered auditorium)
Manchester Central Convention Complex	Manchester	10,900 (Halls 1 and 2 combined), 8,100 (Hall 2)
National Exhibition Centre	Birmingham	12,000 (Hall 4), 8,000 (Hall 5)

Name	Location	Capacity	Notes	Refs
Alban Arena	St Albans	1,200 standing; 850 seated
Albert Hall, Manchester	Manchester	2,000
Barbican Centre	London	1,949 (Hall); 200 (Pit)
Barrowland Ballroom	Glasgow	1,900
Bath Pavilion	Bath	1,400
The Baths Hall	Scunthorpe	1,800 standing; 1,021 seated
Birmingham Digbeth Secretspace	Birmingham	3,000 standing; 1,300 seated
Blackpool Winter Gardens	Blackpool	3,500
Bournemouth International Centre	Bournemouth	6,500 standing; 4,000 seated
Bradford Live	Bradford	4,000 standing; 3,400 seating
Brentwood Centre		2,000
The Bridgewater Hall	Manchester	2,371
Bridlington Spa	Bridlington	3,800
Brighton Centre	Brighton	4,500
Brighton Dome	Brighton	1,860 standing; 1,700 seated
Bristol Beacon	Bristol	2,124 standing, 1,866 seated
Bristol Hippodrome	Bristol	1,951
British Airways ARC	London	3,800
Caird Hall	Dundee	2,300 standing; 1,200 seated
Cambridge Corn Exchange		1,849
Cambridge Theatre	London	1,231
Cardiff University Students' Union Great Hall	Cardiff	1,600
Citadel Arts Centre	St Helens	1,000
City Hall	Salisbury	1,255 standing; 1,355 mixed; 953 seated
Cliffs Pavilion	Southend-on-sea	1,630
Connexin Live Arena	Kingston upon Hull	3,500
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield	Sheffield	980
De La Warr Pavilion	Bexhill	1,500
De Montfort Hall	Leicester	2,200
Edinburgh Corn Exchange	Edinburgh	3,000 (concerts); 1,000 (dinners)
Edinburgh Festival Theatre	Edinburgh	1,915 seated
Edinburgh Playhouse	Edinburgh	3,059
Electric Ballroom	London	1,100 (800 downstairs, 300 upstairs)
Electric Bristol	Bristol	1,100
Electric Brixton	London	1,500	Formerly known as the Fridge
Electric Studios	Sheffield	1,050 standing
Embassy Theatre	Skegness	1,168
Empress Ballroom	Blackpool	3,000
The Engine Shed	Lincoln	1,600
Eventim Apollo	London	5,039 standing; 3,632 seated	Formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon
Eventim Olympia	Liverpool	1,960
Floral Pavilion Theatre		814
The Forum	Hertfordshire	2,250
The Forum, Bath	Bath	1,640
Forum Birmingham	Birmingham	3,500
G Live	Guilford	1,700
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall	Glasgow	2,500
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music	Newcastle Gateshead	1,700 (Sage One); 450 (Sage Two)
Grand Central Hall	Liverpool	1,150
The Grand Theatre	Blackpool	1,100
Great Hall	Exeter	1,500 standing; 650 seated
The Halls Wolverhampton	Wolverhampton	3,404 (Civic Hall); 1,289 (Wulfrun Hall); 550 (Slade Rooms)
The Harold Pinter Theatre	London	796
Heaven	London	1,725
HERE at Outernet	London	1,600
The Hexagon	Reading	1,200
Hull Arena	Kingston upon Hull	3,750
Hull City Hall	Kingston upon Hull	1,800 standing; 1,200 seated
Indigo at The O2	London	2,750
Kilburn National Club	London
King George's Hall	Blackburn	3,500
King's Theatre, Edinburgh	Edinburgh	1,350 seated
Koko	London	1,500	Formerly known as Camden Palace and The Music Machine
Leith Theatre	Edinburgh	1,500
The Liquid Room	Edinburgh	800 (club nights); 650-700 (gigs)
Liverpool Empire Theatre	Liverpool	2,348
London Coliseum	London	2,358
London Hippodrome	London	1,340 seated
London Palladium	London	2,300
Lyceum Theatre	London	2,096
Lyceum Theatre	Sheffield	1,068
Manchester Academy	Manchester	2,575 (Academy 1); 900 (Academy 2); 620 (Club Academy); 450 (Academy 3)
Marble Factory	Bristol	1,600
Mayflower Theatre	Southampton	2,270
Mountford Hall	Liverpool	2,300
Music Hall, Aberdeen	Aberdeen	1,281 seated
The Venue	London	2,000
New Theatre Oxford	Oxford	1,785
New Victoria Theatre	Woking	1,300
Newport Leisure Centre	Newport	2,000
NX Newcastle	Newcastle	2,135
O2 Academy Birmingham	Birmingham	3,009 (Academy); 600 (Academy 2); 250 (Academy 3)
O2 Academy Bournemouth	Bournemouth	1,800
O2 Academy Bristol	Bristol	1,650
O2 Academy Glasgow	Glasgow	2,500
O2 Academy Leeds	Leeds	2,300
O2 Academy Leicester	Leicester	1,450
O2 Academy Liverpool	Liverpool	1,750; 1250 (Academy 1); 500 (Academy 2)
O2 Apollo Manchester	Manchester	3,500
O2 Academy Oxford	Oxford	1,020
O2 Academy Sheffield	Sheffield	2,150
O2 Brixton Academy	London	4,921
O2 City Hall Newcastle	Newcastle	2,135
O2 Forum Kentish Town	London	2,300
O2 Guildhall Southampton	Southampton	1,749
O2 Institute	Birmingham	1,500 (O2 Institute 1); 600 (O2 Institute 2); 250 (O2 Institute 3)
O2 Institute Birmingham	Birmingham	2,000
The O2 Ritz	Manchester	1,500
O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire	London	2,000
O2 Victoria Warehouse	Manchester	3,500
The Old Fruitmarket	Glasgow	2,000
Old Vic	London	1,067
OPEN Norwich	Norwich	1,450 standing; 500 seated	Closed 2020
Perth Concert Hall	Perth	1,600 standing; 1,200 seated
Planet Ice Coventry - SkyDome Arena	Coventry	3,000
Planet Ice Leeds Arena	Leeds	2,200
Planet Ice Milton Keynes Arena	Milton Keynes	2,500
Plymouth Pavilions	Plymouth	4,000
Portsmouth Guildhall	Portsmouth	2,500
Portsmouth Pyramids Centre	Portsmouth	1,200 standing; 500 seated
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh	Edinburgh	900 standing; 801 seated
Rainbow Theatre	London		1971–1982; now a Christian church
Regent Theatre	Stoke-on-Trent	1,600
Regent Theatre, Ipswich	Ipswich	1,500
Rialto Reborn	Coventry	1,200 standing; 550 seated
Rock City	Nottingham	2,450
Roundhouse	London	3,300 standing; 1,700 seated
Royal Albert Hall	London	5,544
Royal Concert Hall	Nottingham	2,499
Royal Festival Hall	London	2,895
Royal Lyceum Theatre	Edinburgh	658
Royal National Theatre	London	1,160 (Olivier); 890 (Lyttelton); 400 (Cottesloe)
Royal Opera House	London	2,268
Royal Shakespeare Theatre	Stratford-upon-Avon	1,000
Sadler's Wells Theatre	London	1,560
Scala	London	1,145
Shaftesbury Theatre	London	1,416
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre	London	1,570
City Hall	Sheffield	2,271
Sondheim Theatre	London	1,137
Southampton Engine Rooms	Southampton	860
The Spotlight, Hoddesdon		1,360 standing; 566 seated
St Augustine's Cultural Arts	Brighton	1,500 standing; 1,000 seated
Sunderland Empire	Sunderland	2,200
Swansea Arena	Swansea	3,500
Symphony Hall, Birmingham	Birmingham	2,262
The Telegraph Building	Belfast	1,200
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane	London
Theatre Royal, Norwich	Norwich	1,300
Theatre Royal	Nottingham	1,107
Tobacco Dock	London	2,000		^[12]
Tom Stoppard Theatre	London	640
Tramshed, Cardiff	Cardiff	1,000
Troxy	London	3,100
UEA LCR	Norwich	1,550
Usher Hall	Edinburgh	2,900 standing; 2,200 seated
Venue Cymru	Llandudno	2,500 (Arena); 1,450 (Theatre Auditorium)
Victoria Hall	Stoke-on-Trent	1,467
Victoria Theatre	Halifax	1,512
Warwick Arts Centre	Coventry	1,535 (Butterworth Hall), 573 (Theatre), 150 (Studio), 143 (Helen Martin Studio), 250 (Woods Scawen Room)
Watford Colosseum	Watford	2,000
Weymouth Pavilion	Weymouth	988
Winter Gardens, Margate	Margate	1,900
York Barbican	York	1,900 standing; 1,500 seated

Name	Location	Capacity	Notes	Refs
100 Club	London	350
606 Club	London	120
Albert Hall, Nottingham	Nottingham	750
An Seòmar	Inverness	450
The Aquarium	Lowestoft	900
Band on the Wall	Manchester	520
Bawtry Phoenix Theatre	Bawtry	72
Bloomsbury Theatre	Bloomsbury	London – 535
The Boileroom	Guildford	300		^[13]^{[not specific enough to verify]}
The Bongo Club	Edinburgh	300 standing
The Borderline	London	275
Britannia Adelphi Hotel	Liverpool	500 seated
Buskers	Dundee	450
Cabaret Voltaire	Edinburgh	150 standing, 60 seated (The Boudoir); 200 standing, 80 seated (The Vault)
Cambridge Junction		850
Camden Falcon	London		Closed circa 1990s
Camden Underworld	Camden Town, London	500
The Caves Edinburgh	Edinburgh	650
Cellar	Aberdeen	80
Century Theatre	Coalville, Leicestershire	206
Cheltenham Town Hall	Cheltenham	978
Churchill Theatre	Bromley	781
Concorde 2	Brighton	600
Corn Exchange, Exeter	Exeter	500 standing, 300 seated
Corn Exchange, Ipswich	Ipswich	900 standing, 800 seated
DIY Space For London	Bermondsey	160
The Dome, London	London	600
Downstairs at the Dome	London	300
Drummomds	Aberdeen	300 standing
Dublin Castle, Camden	London	150
Eel Pie Club, Twickenham	London	200+
Electric Circus	Edinburgh	300
Epic Studios	Norwich	900
Everyman Theatre	Cheltenham	675
The Fox and Firkin	London	499
Fulham Greyhound	London	275	Circa 1971–1990
The Garage, London	London	600
Greencoat Place	Victoria	100
The Half Moon	Putney, London	200
hmv Empire	Coventry	800 standing (Empire 1) – 180 standing (Empire 2)
Hope and Anchor	Islington, London
The Horn	St Albans	200
House of Detention	Clerkenwell, London	130		^[14]
Jazz Cafe	London	350
The Leeds Club	Leeds	150
Lemon Tree	Aberdeen	550 standing, various seated caps
Lemongrove	Exeter	700
Lighthouse	Poole	669
Limelight	Belfast	750
The Lion Theatre	Horncastle	96
The Magic Garden	London	380
Malvern Theatres	Worcestershire	850
Marquee Club	London		Wardour Street 1964–1988; Charing Cross Road 1988–2001
The Mart Theatre	Skipton	300
MK11 Live Music Venue	Milton Keynes	330
Music Room Space Events	Mayfair, London
The New Headingley Club	Leeds	100
New Theatre Royal Lincoln	Lincoln	475
New Vic Theatre	Stoke-on-Trent	600
O2 Academy Islington	Islington, London	800
Off The Square	Manchester	200+
The Old Market	Brighton & Hove	500
Orchard Theatre	Dartford	950
Perth Theatre		500
Phoenix	Exeter	300 standing; 158 seated
The Picturedrome	Holmfirth	690
The Picturedrome	Northampton	300		^[15]^{[not specific enough to verify]}
Playhouse Theatre	Oxford	663
Powerhaus	Islington, London		Was once The Pied Bull; closed circa 1990s; now Halifax Building Society
Princess Royal Theatre	Port Talbot	798
Purcell Room	South Bank, London	367
Queen Elizabeth Hall	London	913
Ronnie Scott's	London	300
The Rose Theatre	Chesterfield	160
The Roxy	London		1976–1978; now a sports shop
Ruskin Arms	London	499	Circa 1960s–2008
Scala	Kings Cross, London	800
Sheffield Library Theatre	Sheffield	260
Silsden Town Hall	Bradford	180
The Sir George Robey	Finsbury Park		Closed circa 2000s; Briefly renamed Powerhaus after Islington venue "moved" here
Sneaky Pete’s	Edinburgh	100
@sohoplace	London	600
The Square	Harlow	200	Closed January 2017
The Stables	Milton Keynes	398 seated, 50 standing (Jim Marshall Auditorium); 80 seated, 100 standing (Stage 2)
The Standard Music Venue	Walthamstow	300
Stephan Joseph Theatre	Scarborough	569
STYX	North London	499
Theatre Royal, Brighton	Brighton	952
Tunnels	Aberdeen	300 standing, 500 clubnight
Under The Bridge	Fulham, London	550
Union Chapel	Islington, London	750
Vibez	Newport	750
Victoria Hall	Stoke-on-Trent	644
The Victoria Wood Theatre	Bowness-on-Windermere	257
Vintage Rockbar	Doncaster	150
The Voodoo Rooms	Edinburgh	200 standing
Vortex Jazz Club	London	100
Yoko Ono Lennon Centre	Liverpool	600 (lecture theatre), 400 (Tung auditorium)
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre	Guildford	586

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