Hull FC at MKM Stadium

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Hull FC's home in West Park

The MKM Stadium opened on 18 December 2002, with Hull City beating Sunderland in a football friendly. Hull City moved from Boothferry Park and Hull FC left the Boulevard for the shared venue. The two clubs' histories meet in this building, which Hull City Council also identifies as a host of international rugby league and England under-21 football.

The ground was built on the site of the Circle cricket ground. Original naming partner KCOM says the project was funded mainly through £44 million raised by the council's sale of Kingston Communications. It began life as the Kingston Communications Stadium, giving the familiar KC and KCOM names their connection to the city's telecommunications business.

Hull FC's first match in the stadium was a 24–16 Challenge Cup victory over Halifax on 9 February 2003. The Hull Story's anniversary account recalls that FC completed the game with only 11 players. The rugby opening therefore produced a very different sporting memory from the football friendly that had inaugurated the building a few weeks earlier.

The Boulevard's farewell was marked by a match against touring New Zealand on 22 October 2002. Hull FC's ground history records 2,078 competitive first-team matches there, with exactly 1,500 wins and 84 draws. Its famous Threepenny Stand belongs to that former home, while the MKM represents the next chapter of the club's West Hull story.

StadiumDB gives the MKM a capacity of 25,586 and identifies the West Stand as its largest side. Its stadium profile lists 28 executive boxes and credits the project to the Miller Partnership and Arup Sport. The stadium combines an enclosed bowl with a larger main stand, rather than four equal sides.

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Old Faithful and the Johnny Whiteley Stand

Hull FC renamed the East Stand in Johnny Whiteley's honour in February 2026. The same stand retains the Chris Chilton name for Hull City football fixtures. Whiteley made 418 appearances for FC between 1950 and 1965, and the rugby name honours a player whose connection with the club continued through coaching and community work.

Whiteley played in Hull's championship-winning teams of 1956 and 1958, captaining the latter. He also won World Cups with Great Britain in 1954 and 1960 and later coached the 1970 Ashes-winning touring team. Those achievements explain why a stand in the present stadium carries the name of a player whose own Hull career belonged to the Boulevard.

The club anthem Old Faithful began as a tribute to Joe Oliver. Hull's Hall of Fame profile explains that supporters adopted Gene Autry's 1933 song because of Oliver's dependable scoring. Oliver registered 1,842 points for the club and was known as the Points Machine, making the song a surviving link between today's crowd and a pre-war player.

Hull artist Pablo Carrizo, a local musician, recorded a new version of Old Faithful for the club in 2025. The club's announcement traced the song through the Boulevard terraces and its association with Oliver. A new recording therefore refreshed an established matchday tradition, while retaining the connection with the supporters who first made it part of FC's identity.

The Airlie Birds nickname comes from Airlie Street, the road associated with the club's old Boulevard home. Black & Whites refers to the irregular black-and-white hoops of the playing strip. Both names are used by the club alongside Hull FC, carrying older geography and kit traditions into the newer stadium.

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Paragon, the blue footbridge and Priory Park

Hull FC gives a 15-minute walk from Hull Interchange, which adjoins Hull Paragon railway station. Its directions follow Park Street and Londesborough Street, cross Argyle Street and use the blue footbridge to the stadium. The club explicitly says the footbridge closes on non-matchdays, an important distinction for anyone visiting the shop or attending a different stadium event.

The council's Travel Hull stadium page gives the same Park Street–Londesborough Street–Argyle Street approach a 21-minute walking time from Paragon. It says the link opens for matchdays and major events such as Hull Fair. Its longer figure is a useful alternative to the club's estimate, particularly when allowing for the complete station-to-stadium journey.

Travel Hull lists Anlaby Road buses including service 2 towards Boothferry Estate, 52 towards Willerby Parkway, 53 towards Swanland, 54 towards Castle Hill Hospital and 58 towards Hessle. It also identifies service 350 towards Scunthorpe via Barton. These are named public-transport alternatives to walking from Paragon, with stops opposite the stadium.

The Priory Park & Ride approach is signposted from the A63 west of Hull. Hull FC says buses travel along Anlaby Road past the stadium, while Travel Hull identifies Stagecoach East Midlands' direct stadium service. The council also records 73 cycle racks around the MKM, providing 146 cycle-parking spaces. ;.

Hull FC publishes the stadium address as MKM Stadium, West Park, Hull, HU3 6HU. Its Walton Street supporter car park uses HU3 6GA and has space for 1,100 cars and coaches. The distinction matters for navigation: the stadium postcode and the supporter car-park postcode lead to different parts of the West Park complex.

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Food, flags and matchday help

Hull's 2026 matchday food information lists loaded fries, pulled-pork burgers and dirty hotdogs, alongside Greek, Turkish and Indian options. Kiosks take card or contactless payment. These choices are part of the MKM's street-food menu, providing more specific concourse options than the traditional shorthand of simply buying a pie at the ground.

The 2026 Honesty Flags scheme operates from DJ Eddie Richards' booth in the south-east corner. Supporters leave contact details when collecting a flag and return it after the game for reuse. The club also introduced signed player trading cards, distributed by non-playing players and through its stadium retail store while supplies last.

Visiting supporters can look for the FC Team, a group of supporter volunteers that includes away-supporter liaison officers. Hull's away guide also identifies St Stephen's shopping centre as an alternative parking and food stop, connected to the stadium by Londesborough Street and the stadium footpaths. It gives the shopping centre postcode as HU2 8LN.

Our opinion: the south-east corner is the most distinctive starting point for someone interested in Hull's organised matchday noise. The club locates singing supporters, its DJ and the reusable flag scheme in that part of the ground. If your priority is a reserved seat and a more settled view of the play, the West Stand offers a clearly different choice within the same stadium.

Our pick (opinion): We would look beyond the usual pie here and compare the Greek, Turkish and Indian food options listed in Hull’s concourse menu.

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Choosing a Hull FC stand

Hull FC's seating guide locates the Family Zone in West Stand blocks W10 and W11. It describes activities including mascots, face painting and opportunities to meet players. The West Stand's standard seats are reserved, so its family area has a specific block identity within the larger stand rather than being a general description of the whole ground.

The club distinguishes reserved East Stand seating from the unreserved area towards its south-east end, which it associates with songs and chants. South Stand seating is described as unreserved and gives a behind-the-posts view. Visiting fans are allocated the North Stand, including the north-east area marked for away supporters on the club plan.

The MKM's West Stand has two tiers, with executive boxes between them; the other three sides are single-tiered. Football-Stadiums' ground guide also distinguishes the East Stand's Whiteley rugby identity from its Chilton football identity. This asymmetrical layout makes the West side recognisable even before the stand and block signs come into view.

Our advice (opinion): For a family visit, we would start with West Stand blocks W10 and W11, where the club locates its family activities and reserved seating.

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Accessible seating and entry

Hull FC's detailed wheelchair breakdown lists 64 raised-platform places and 69 pitchside places for home supporters, plus 16 away wheelchair places with personal-assistant seating. The same accessibility page welcomes guide and assistance dogs with advance arrangements. Different locations are therefore available within the stadium, with the away provision specifically allocated inside the visiting section.

The club says headsets are available for visually impaired supporters and that accessible toilets do not require Radar keys. It states there are no hearing loops. Disabled parking in the stadium bowl is limited and handled through seasonal arrangements and a waiting list, with additional disabled spaces identified in the South car park and Walton Street.

The corner access-control gates have specific exit arrangements: Hull's 2026 matchday information says only disabled spectators holding the relevant MKM access card, together with their personal assistants, may leave through those gates. That makes the access card a practical part of an accessible visit, separate from the match ticket scanned to enter the stadium.

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Staying by Paragon or exploring the old town

The Royal Hotel Hull is connected to Hull Paragon train and bus station. Its operator gives the address as 170 Ferensway, Hull, HU1 3UF. That places an overnight base at the start of the stadium's published walking route, making it a concrete alternative to looking for accommodation only beside West Park.

For an old-town pub rather than a stadium-side stop, the Manchester Arms is at 7 Scale Lane, Hull, HU1 1LA. Its own information describes a beer garden and a dog-friendly pub. Scale Lane is a different part of a Hull visit from the Paragon-to-West Park approach, giving an overnight trip a named drinking stop beyond the ground.

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Hull FC stadium questions

Which successes belong to the MKM era?

Hull's honours list records the 2005, 2016 and 2017 Challenge Cup wins and its 2006 Super League Grand Final appearance. Those achievements fall after the move from the Boulevard. The back-to-back Wembley victories of 2016 and 2017 were the club's first consecutive Challenge Cup titles, following the 2005 success in Cardiff. ;.

Danny Houghton was inducted into Hull's Hall of Fame at a reunion lunch at the MKM in August 2026. The occasion marked ten years since the first Wembley victory and brought together family, teammates and coaching staff. Houghton finished with 451 club appearances, and the ceremony connected one of the modern team's defining players directly with the stadium's continuing social life.

Houghton's decisive contribution in the 2016 final was the late try-saving tackle on Warrington's Ben Currie, remembered as Tackle 52. Hull had recovered from 10–0 down to lead 12–10, and the tackle protected that advantage. Houghton also received the 2016 Man of Steel award, giving the team based at the MKM both a major cup and the competition's leading individual honour that season.

Gareth Ellis captained both of those Wembley-winning teams and made 127 Hull appearances across two spells, returning from retirement before finally finishing in 2020. The club inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2023 alongside Kirk Yeaman, Arthur Bunting and Jack Harrison. His later work as assistant coach extended the connection beyond his time leading the side on the pitch, while the double-winning captaincy remains central to the club's account of his decade in Hull.

Has a future player watched from these stands?

Scott Taylor grew up watching Hull FC from the MKM's South Stand before becoming part of the 2016 and 2017 Challenge Cup-winning teams. The club recalled that connection when announcing his testimonial. His story gives the behind-the-posts seats a particularly local association: a supporter who watched there eventually helped bring major trophies back to the same club.

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