BCU Sports Facilities

BCU has the only university sports programme to be based out of a professional sports stadium - The Alexander Stadium. As a student at BCU you can take advantage of multiple facilities across the city, for everything from social football to professional track and field. 

Alexander Stadium

A world-class athletics stadium built for the Commonwealth Games. Now Alexander Stadium is home to state-of-the-art facilities for our Sport and Life Sciences courses, and is a training ground for our elite athletes.

  • World Athletics Class 1 certified competition track
  • 6‑lane warm‑up track
  • 3G floodlit multi-sport pitch with artificial turf 

Doug Ellis Sports Centre

Based in Perry Barr just a short bus ride from our City Centre Campus. 

  • Fully air-conditioned gym with over 80 pieces of equipment 
  • 8-court sports hall with a semi-sprung wooden floor
  • 3 bookable workout studios ranging from small to large 
  • Outdoor all-weather floodlit pitches 

City South Sports Centre

At our City South campus, there's a large sports hall where you can join social badminton, pickleball and more. You can also find a small gym where BCU Active run fitness classes. 

BCU badminton students

The Pavilion

The Pavilion is one of the main training grounds for rugby and football at BCU. 

  • 12 grass football and rugby pitches
  • Changing rooms 
  • Function room and event space with a bar