Franklin's Gardens
Franklin's Gardens is a stadium in Northampton, United Kingdom that opened in 1864. Its recorded capacity is 15,249.
Key facts
Franklin's Gardens is a stadium in Northampton, United Kingdom that opened in 1864. Its recorded capacity is 15,249. It is owned by Northampton Saints and Northampton Saints. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Northampton Saints, Loughborough Lightning, Northampton Saints.
- Location
- Northampton, United Kingdom
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 15,249
- Opened
- 1864
- Status
- Active
- Current owner
- Northampton Saints, Northampton Saints
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
- Playing surface
- Natural grass
Franklin's Gardens is at latitude 52.239444, longitude -0.919722, in Northampton, United Kingdom. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | 52.239444 |
| Longitude | -0.919722 |
| City | Northampton |
| Region | Northampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Technology
| Feature | Recorded as | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Natural grass | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
See the venue technology guides for how these work.
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
| Role | Organization | Period | Status | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | Northampton Saints | 1864 to present | Current | Wikidata statement | Source |
| Owner | Northampton Saints | Present | Current | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northampton Saints | Premiership Rugby | Present | Current | Source |
| Loughborough Lightning | Premiership Rugby | Present | Current | Source |
| Northampton Saints | Premiership Rugby | 1864 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
9 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 946 | 2026-10 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1373690448 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Franklin's_Gardens | Franklin's Gardens | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_competitions | (created) | not set | 22 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18288 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18287 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18286 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 5149 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 5148 | 2026-09 |
Sources and licenses
Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:
- Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
- OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
- Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Row-level sources used for this venue: