Bridgwater - Sports

Sports

Bridgwater Town F.C. are a football club based at Fairfax Park. The original version of the club was founded in 1898. The club currently plays in the Southern League Division One South and West. Bridgwater & Albion RFC are Somerset's highest- placed rugby team, playing in National League 3 South and are based at College Way. It was originally founded in 1875. The cricket club play at The Parks on Durleigh Road. Bridgwater Hockey Club were formed in the 1920s but now play their matches at Burnham-on-Sea.

East Bridgwater Sports Centre offers badminton courts, outside football pitches, squash courts and a fitness room.

Bridgwater had a series of swimming pools from 1890 until 2009. The first pool, in Old Taunton Road, was replaced by the Bridgwater Lido on Broadway, opened in 1960 by Princess Alexandra. The lido, which had three pools, a diving bay and paddling pool, was demolished in the late 1980s to make way for a supermarket, and to fund the indoor Sedgemoor Splash swimming pool in Mount Street, which opened in 1991. In 2009, after the local council were unable to raise the funds needed to upgrade the pool, it was closed and demolished to make way for another supermarket. A new pool was planned as part of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) rebuild of Chilton Trinity Technology College, however, the government's review of the BSF programme may result in the cancellation of the new school and pool build.