Overview
StadiumJobs.co.uk is a UK job board built around a fairly simple idea: people who actually want to work in a stadium shouldn’t have to scroll past pages of warehouse and call centre listings to find a shift on a matchday. The site pulls together openings from Premier League and EFL clubs, rugby grounds, cricket venues, and the big multi-use arenas that fill the gap between fixtures with concerts, conferences and one-off events.
Most roles posted are matchday or event-based, which fits the way the work tends to run in practice. A Saturday home fixture in the Championship can need several hundred staff, but only for six or seven hours. Throw in midweek cup ties, the away travel for catering crews, and the summer concert season, and you end up with a calendar that suits people who prefer variety to a fixed nine-to-five.
Candidates can search by club, by venue, or by region. That’s genuinely useful if you happen to live within reach of more than one ground, or you’re a student looking for shifts that fit around lectures. The listings cover the mix you’d expect inside a stadium on an event day: stewarding, hospitality, bar and kiosk work, kitchen porters, club shop retail, programme sellers, turnstile staff, premium box hosts and event setup crews. Some are posted directly by clubs and venues; others come through the catering and stewarding agencies that handle large chunks of the matchday operation.
From an employer’s side the appeal is straightforward. The people applying through the site are already there because they want stadium work specifically, which is a noticeably different audience from a generic jobs feed. In practice that usually means fewer no-shows on the day and a quicker ramp-up at the start of a new season.
It’s worth pointing out that “stadium jobs” in the UK isn’t only football. Twickenham, Murrayfield and the Principality fill out the rugby union calendar; Lord’s, The Oval, Edgbaston and Trent Bridge run test matches and T20 fixtures through the summer; and venues like Wembley, the O2, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Etihad and Co-op Live host enough non-sport events that hospitality teams there are busy pretty much year-round.
Features
Job Search & Discovery
- Search by Club or Venue: Find roles tied to a specific Premier League, EFL, SPFL or rugby club, or to a named arena
- Regional Filtering: Browse by area so the listings reflect places you can realistically get to on a matchday
- Sport Coverage: Football, rugby union, rugby league, cricket and motorsport venues sit alongside multi-use arenas
- Event Work: Listings include concert and special-event staffing as well as standard matchday roles
Role Categories
- Stewarding & Safety: Crowd stewards, response stewards, accessibility stewards and SIA-licensed positions
- Hospitality: Box hosts, lounge staff, hospitality servers, silver service and sommelier roles for premium areas
- Bar, Kiosk & Catering: Bar staff, kiosk operators, chefs, kitchen porters, runners and back-of-house support
- Retail & Operations: Club shop staff, programme sellers, turnstile operators, fanzone hosts and event setup crews
For Employers and Agencies
- Focused Applicant Pool: Candidates who came to the site specifically looking for matchday and event work
- Built Around Seasonal Hiring: Designed for the way stadium staffing actually runs, with pre-season ramps, mid-season top-ups and summer concert cover
- Direct and Agency Postings: Clubs and the agencies that staff them on their behalf can both list vacancies
Prices
StadiumJobs.co.uk is free for job seekers to browse and apply for roles. Pricing for employers and agencies posting vacancies is shown on the site itself.