Carven Park Hull

For sponsorship purposes, the rugby league stadium formerly known as Craven Park Hull is now known as the Sewell Group Craven Park Stadium and is situated in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. One of the two professional rugby league teams headquartered in the city, Hull Kingston Rovers, calls it home.

In 1989, Hull Kingston Rovers relocated from the Old Craven Park, which was located on Holderness Road, to the new stadium. The brand-new venue introduced hospitality boxes for Rugby League for the first time. The Hull Vikings speedway team once called the stadium home, but they moved out when Hull Kingston Rovers needed to use it for Super League play. The inaugural game was played against Trafford Borough in front of an 8,500-person capacity crowd. The team successfully ushered in the new era and was named Division Two winners that year.

The pitch and the playing surface were significantly upgraded in 2006 as the club worked to get back into the top division of English rugby league. Hull City Council, in collaboration with Kingston Community Developments Limited and Hull Kingston Rovers, announced that terms for lease agreements had been reached to support the long-term future of Craven Park shortly after plans were floated in 2007 for Hull Kingston Rovers to relocate from Craven Park to a new purpose-built rugby league stadium to be built at a new, unconfirmed site. These conditions made it possible to move on with stadium development and investment.

The first step in renovating Craven Park was to lease-purchase a temporary seated north stand from Wentworth Golf Club so that visiting away supporters could no longer utilise the insufficient south terrace. 2008 saw the start of Hull Kingston Rovers' second Super League season as well as the expansion of the East Stand's standing terraces. The stand's capacity was extended by 1,120 with this extension, increasing its total capacity to 4,750. Plans for a similar extension to the opposite end of the stand, which would have increased capacity by 1,200 once more, were made in 2009, but the construction of a new North Stand took precedence in 2011, therefore this expansion was shelved.

After the temporary Wentworth Golf Club stand was removed in 2012, development on the new £8.2 million mixed amenities North Stand commenced. Initial plans were for the new stand to be finished midway through the 2013 campaign, with a Hull FC derby scheduled as the first game. However, disagreements between the team, Hull City Council, and construction managers NPS caused the opening to be postponed to 2014. Due to disagreements, the North Stand was painted sky blue rather than the original intended colour of red. Club director Neil Hudgell feared the stand would turn into a "glorified office block" as a result of the controversy. The new North Stand will be known as the "Colin Hutton North Stand" after it opens in honour of the former Hull KR head coach and coach of Great Britain's national rugby league side.

In 2018, Craven Park broke its previous attendance record, which stood at 11,181 for the season opener against the Leeds Rhinos in 2015. In a Good Friday derby, Hull FC defeated Hull Kingston Rovers in front of 12,090 people at the stadium.

Hull Kingston Rovers declared a "major incident" after a floodlight collapsed in November 2018 and moved staff and players to the University of Hull for off-season training. The club moved one preseason game in 2019 and would return to Craven Park in late January while utilising a temporary floodlight.

Carven Park Hull