New professional sports stadia have been widely advanced as flagship developments that can generate jobs and wealth, support place branding and culture-led strategies, and host mega-events. Public funding for new stadia has been secured on these bases but also challenged as stadia costs are under-estimated and the benefits, particularly for lower income communities, exaggerated. Emerging in this context, community stadia are an intriguing phenomenon as they offer the potential for professional sports stadia to deliver on community aims alongside their sporting, commercial and economic development aims. Public funding has followed with a number of community stadia built or planned in the UK, yet with limited critical analysis of the stadium type and its impact. This paper helps to fill the literature gap by learning from two community stadia case studies: The Keepmoat Stadium, Doncaster and The Falkirk Stadium, Falkirk. It finds that community stadia have the potential to deliver across the four aims, with stadia’s association with the world of professional sport facilitating engagement with multiple, diverse and ‘hard to reach’ communities. However, they are also complex phenomena leading the paper to construct a 12-feature conceptualisation of community stadia that can advance practitioner and academic understanding of the phenomenon.

新型的专业运动场已被广泛用作旗舰发展，可以创造就业机会和财富，支持场所品牌和以文化为主导的战略，并举办大型活动。在这些基础上已为新的体育场提供了公共资金，但由于体育场成本被低估并且其收益（尤其是低收入社区的收益）被夸大了，因此也面临挑战。在这种情况下出现的社区体育馆是一个引人入胜的现象，因为它们为专业体育体育场馆提供了实现社区目标以及其体育，商业和经济发展目标的潜力。在英国建立或规划了许多社区体育场之后，公共资金紧随其后，但对体育场类型及其影响的批判性分析却有限。本文通过学习两个社区体育馆案例研究来填补文学空白，这两个案例是唐卡斯特的Keepmoat体育场和福尔柯克的Falkirk体育场。研究发现，体育馆具有实现四个目标的潜力，体育馆与职业体育界的联谊促进了与多个，多样化和“难以到达”的社区的参与。但是，它们也是复杂的现象，导致论文构建了社区体育场的12个特征的概念化，可以促进实践者和学术界对该现象的理解。多元化且“难以触及”的社区。但是，它们也是复杂的现象，导致论文构建了社区体育场的12个特征的概念化，可以促进实践者和学术界对该现象的理解。多元化且“难以触及”的社区。但是，它们也是复杂的现象，导致论文构建了社区体育场的12个特征的概念化，可以促进实践者和学术界对该现象的理解。