Odsal Stadium is a stadium situated in Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The venue is used for rugby league and has been the home ground of Bradford Bulls since 1934. The official name of the stadium is the Grattan Stadium due to sponsorship from Grattan.
Odsal has also hosted many other sports, including association football, speedway, stock car racing, basketball featuring the Harlem Globetrotters, wrestling, show jumping and kabaddi. The stadium boasts one of the largest attendances of all time for rugby league (102,569) when Halifax played Warrington on the 5th of May, 1954.

History

2002-2003 Redevelopments
With the return to Odsal Stadium for 2003 the Bulls highlighted the requirement to create hospitality, conference and banqueting facilities to enable the stadium, and club, to compete with the likes of Wigan Warriors' JJB Stadium, Leeds Rhinos' Headingley Carnegie Stadium and Huddersfield Giants' Galpharm Stadium. It was therefore decided that the existing 'Pits' area of the stadium, used previously for the now defunct speedway club, would be developed into a two-tier structure housing the club's corporate operations. The construction of the corporate facility began in November 2002 and was completed in time for the Bulls biggest game of Super League VIII against Leeds Rhinos on 26 April 2003. The facility includes executive boxes, a restaurant, bar, players' lounge, media facility, directors' lounge and scoreboard, and the imposing structure completes the unique natural bowl of the stadium. In December 2003 Bradford Bulls announced an agreement with regional window and conservatory company Coral, which saw the facility renamed as the Coral Stand.

Coral Stand
The refurbishment involved replacement of all 5,500 seats, painting, new information signs, a new bar, the removal of the back row of seating to increase wheelchair viewing to over 30 spaces.

The Tetleys Stand
When the Bulls announced they would be returning to Odsal Stadium, they soon realised that the whole stadium was in need of refurbishment, to meet modern health and safety standards and cater for their customers. Not only was a new corporate facility constructed, and the Main Stand re-developed, but also public bars and toilet facilities were built, a new shop and club offices were created, a sophisticated telecommunications system installed, and new floodlights with their own power sub station erected. The stadium was also treated to a lick of new paint and the Touchdown converted from a restaurant to a public bar.

Other Stadium Refurbishments
The pitch as Odsal has a distinctive concave contour, with the corners of the pitch behind the try-line noticeably sloping up towards the stands.

Pitch

Future Redevelopments
Bradford Bulls lodged a planning application to further improve Odsal Stadium and turn the Stadium and the adjacent land into a sporting village. the plans include
The Phase 1 Redevelopments Stadium have been completed with the Coral Stand been built and renovation of the Tetley's stand and other there is an announcement due in August 2006 with regard to Phase 2 redevelopments.

The stadium-covered accommodation and additional hospitality facilities for spectators on the side opposite what is the present main stand. This will provide additional seating but will also retain the current amount of standing accommodation on that side of the ground. New club offices and club shop will be built at the Rooley Avenue end within a complex that will also include a small hotel and gymnasium.
The creation of three all-weather pitches, a cricket field with a new pavilion, a floodlit soccer pitch with a covered stand and an athletics track plus additional car parking for over 1,500 vehicles on the landfill site adjacent to and to the south of the stadium.
The removal of the Richard Dunn Leisure Centre and its replacement by a new indoor sports and leisure facility on the adjacent NHS land will also provide a new access road from Rooley Avenue to this facility and to the car parking and other sporting facilities to the south.
The construction of a 3,500 person indoor arena 2006 Events

1996 Average Crowd = 10,346
1997 Average Crowd = 15,159
1998 Average Crowd = 13,022
1999 Average Crowd = 13,212
2000 Average Crowd = 14,520
2003 Average Crowd = 14,939
2004 Average Crowd = 13,495
2005 Average Crowd = 12,786
2006 Average Crowd = 11,406
2007 Average Crowd = 12,084 Average Attendances 1996-2007

Record Crowds

Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain