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  Mile End Stadium Location within London Borough of Tower Hamlets | |
| Location | Mile End, London |
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| Public transit |  Mile End |
| Capacity | 2,000 (439 seated) |
| Opened | 9 September 1990 |
| Tenants | |
| Tower Hamlets Sporting Bengal United | |
Mile End Stadium, also known as the East London Stadium, is a multi-sports stadium in Mile End and situated in the park of the same name, east London, England. The stadium comprises an athletics stadium and a number of floodlit Astroturf football pitches, tennis and netball courts.
The new sports complex with a 25m swimming pool was refurbished in 2019.[1]
The stadium is home to Sporting Bengal United F.C. and Tower Hamlets F.C. of the Eastern Counties Football League, and was formerly home to Leyton Orient Women of the FA Women's National League from 2004 to 2021.[2][3]
It hosted a concert by Britpop band Blur on 17 June 1995, where 27,000 fans saw the band supported by The Boo Radleys, Sparks, John Shuttleworth, Dodgy and Cardiacs.[4]
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- ^ "Late escape for Bethnal Green". East London Advertiser. 11 September 2008. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
- ^ "Blur live at Mile End Stadium, 1995". Veikko's Blur Page. Retrieved 28 June 2010.