Ravenhill Stadium

Ulster Rugby

The Ravenhill Stadium is a stadium for Rugby Union in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The home ground of the team Ulster Rugby is owned by the Irish Rugby Football Union and has a capacity of 12,300 spectators ( this can be temporarily expanded to 19,000 ).

The stadium was opened during the 1923/24 season. It was the venue of so far 18 international matches, of which each is a group game at the World Championships in 1991 and 1999. Been the last game of the Irish rugby union team was against Italy on 24 August 2007. Before that, the last time Scotland was the Five Nations 1954 guests here. After that (now Aviva Stadium ) have been in Dublin for four decades the only venue for international matches Lansdowne Road.

Ravenhill is the home ground of the team Ulster Rugby in the international league and Pro12 in the European Cup Heineken Cup competition. Since 1924 Ravenhill is the venue of the annual final of the Rugby World Cup students of the province of Ulster (usually on St. Patrick 's Day) and the Ulster Towns Cup on Easter Monday. 2007 took place in Ravenhill Stadium the final of the U-19 World Junior Championship.