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Hayes Lane

Hayes Lane (branded as the Copperjax Community Stadium) is a suburban football stadium in Bromley, Greater London, home to Bromley F.C. and, from 2024, the London City Lionesses. The ground consists of linked stands and terraces around a rectangular pitch and provides seating, covered terraces, concourses and hospitality facilities.

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First raised

1938

Its prime

2025

Today

Still standing

As it stood in 2025

What Hayes Lane looked like in its prime.

Compact suburban football ground with a rectangular natural grass pitch under tall floodlight pylons, surrounded by linked stands and terraces. A low brick-based Main Stand with a projecting metal roof and glazed directors' box lines one side; the south end features the larger Glyn Beverley all-seater block with enclosed spaces and bar behind. The rebuilt East Stand is steep and fully roofed with a modern concourse; concrete North and South terraces provide stepped standing and partial roofing, with low perimeter fencing and white picket barriers.

Its story

The story of Hayes Lane.

Stanley Rous Opens the New Hayes Lane, 1938–1960

Bromley Football Club moved to Hayes Lane in 1938, leaving behind a previous ground on the same road. The new enclosure had a single 2,500-seat stand along one side of the pitch, with banking around the rest of it. Stanley Rous opened the ground on 3 September 1938, and Walthamstow Avenue won the opening match 6–1.

The largest crowd the ground has recorded came ten years after that: 10,798 for a friendly between Bromley and a Nigeria XI on 24 September 1948. Floodlights were installed in 1960 and formally switched on 27 September for a game between Japan and an Isthmian League XI. The North Terrace is thought to date from about the same year in the form it now takes, though the exact date of its construction is not certain; it is sixteen steps high, with a small roof over the back four rows, and runs roughly two thirds of the length of the pitch. The banking that had ringed the playing surface was replaced over time with concrete terracing, and both ends were eventually covered.

The Stand Burns Down, 1992–2019

The original 1938 stand burned down in October 1992. What replaced it, opened the following year, was much smaller: a 320-seat covered stand, officially known as the John Fiorini Stand, housing the directors' box and the club's media facilities. Promotion to the National League brought ground grading regulations with it, and seats obtained from the London Aquatics Centre were installed behind one goal to meet them.

In April 2017 the club announced that work would begin on a 1,485-seat stand at the south end of the ground, and that the grass playing surface would be replaced with a 3G pitch. The stand was officially opened on 20 July 2019 and named in honour of a former chairman of the club, Glyn Beverly. It took the place of the old South Stand, which had mixed seating and standing, and it carries a large bar and function area behind the seats along with a family area and spaces for wheelchair users. Between the announcement and the opening, in 2018, Hayes Lane hosted five games of the CONIFA World Football Cup.

Tenants and a Two-Storey Main Stand, 1998–2025

Hayes Lane has served as a home venue for several other clubs. Cray Wanderers were tenants from 1998 until 2024, when they moved to a new home at Flamingo Park. Crystal Palace Women played their home matches at the stadium between 2014 and 2023. London City Lionesses relocated to Hayes Lane in 2024 and have played their home fixtures there since.

Work on the Main Stand in 2020 added a second storey and extended the ground-floor facilities, giving the club a new main entrance, a club shop and additional office space. The number of seats in the stand rose by 128 to 411, though the capacity of the ground as a whole did not change: the new seats replaced some of the existing standing capacity. A larger scheme for the same stand, submitted in 2020 and taking in upgraded seating, new offices, a reception area, a club shop and a roof extended over all the seats, had still not materialised by November 2025, the club's redevelopment effort having shifted instead towards the East Stand.

League Two, EFL Regulations and the New East Terrace, 2024–2026

Promotion to League Two in 2024 obliged Bromley to bring Hayes Lane into line with EFL regulations. Over the summer the artificial playing surface was removed and a natural grass pitch laid in its place, and a covered seated stand was installed on the eastern side of the North Terrace, part of it given over to the away allocation.

In November 2024 the club confirmed that it was ready to demolish the existing East terrace and replace it with a steeper, roofed stand carrying a new concourse and space for up to 2,230 supporters; the redevelopment was driven by the recent promotion and by the requirement to meet EFL ground regulations. While the work went on, away supporters were relocated temporarily to a section of the Glyn Beverley Stand. The rebuild cost £2.8 million and was completed in October 2025, increasing the stadium's capacity to 5,160. The first match played with the completed stand was a 3–3 draw against Tranmere Rovers, during which the terrace operated at half its capacity.

Away supporters then returned to the north-eastern side of the ground, their allocation split between the covered seating within the North Terrace and a section of the new East Terrace. The planning application had put 264 seats in that area; as of July 2026 there were none, and the section held terracing instead. A further application was submitted in 2025 for a second tier of 390 seats on the Glyn Beverley Stand. The ground is owned by Bromley Football Club and carries the sponsored name Copperjax Community Stadium; besides Bromley it remains the home of London City Lionesses.

Step inside

10 places to explore in 2025.

The record describes 10 distinct spots at Hayes Lane, including 7 interiors: john fiorini (main) stand seating and director's box, glyn beverley stand (south) seating bowl, north terrace standing steps and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Exterior approach (pitch-side road)Halfway line looking toward the East StandJohn Fiorini (Main) Stand seating and director's boxGlyn Beverley Stand (south) seating bowlNorth Terrace standing stepsEast Stand concourse and circulationSouth Western Terrace (six-step terrace)Behind the goal (seated section)Pitch corner beneath the floodlightView from the Glyn Beverley function suite

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