Peterborough United FC

Experience the thrill of matchday at the Weston Homes Stadium, where loyal fans, fast-paced action, and family-friendly atmosphere make every game an unforgettable part of city life.

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Peterborough United at a glance

What: Peterborough’s professional football club, known throughout the game as The Posh
Founded: 17 May 1934
Home: Weston Homes Stadium, London Road, Peterborough, PE2 8AL
Nickname: The Posh
Football League: Member since 1960
Best for: Live football, traditional matchday atmosphere, families and experiencing the city with its sleeves rolled up

Hear London Road before you see it. A Peterborough United home match brings noise, colour, anticipation and more than ninety years of football history to the banks of the River Nene.

Known everywhere simply as The Posh, Peterborough United is far more than a team that carries the city’s name. It is one of Peterborough’s great shared institutions, a place where family histories, local identity, unforgettable goals and Saturday-afternoon rituals have accumulated across generations.

The setting makes matchday particularly accessible to visitors. London Road sits just across the River Nene from the city centre, so football can easily become part of a wider Peterborough day involving food, pubs, shopping, the Cathedral, the Museum or a walk beside the river.

And this is still recognisably a traditional English football ground. The stands sit close to the pitch, the stadium has grown gradually on the same site, and generations of supporters continue to call it simply London Road.

Peterborough United Football Club at London Road — Peterborough United have made London Road their home since the club was founded in 1934.

Planning a matchday?

See when The Posh are at home

Browse Peterborough United’s fixtures on Discover Peterborough, filter home and away matches, and find the game that fits your visit. Always confirm final kick-off arrangements with the club before travelling.

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Why experience a Posh matchday?

You do not need to be a lifelong Peterborough supporter to enjoy London Road. For visitors, it is one of the easiest ways to experience the city as local people experience it.

Close to the action

A traditional football ground

London Road combines modern spectator facilities with the compact scale and close pitch-side views associated with classic English league football.

The sound of Peterborough

Matchday atmosphere

Arrive as the stands fill, listen for the chants and experience the peculiar mixture of optimism, anxiety and excitement that makes live football irresistible.

Bring the family

A first football match

The club provides family-focused facilities and support for first-time visitors. Check the official fan information when planning a younger supporter’s first game.

Make a day of it

Football beside the city centre

The stadium’s position means you can combine a match with Peterborough’s restaurants, pubs, shopping, heritage attractions and riverside spaces.

More than the first team

Women, Academy and community

The wider club includes women’s football, youth development and community programmes that extend Peterborough United far beyond ninety minutes on a Saturday.

A genuinely local experience

See Peterborough differently

Historic attractions tell you about a city’s past. A football match lets you spend a few hours inside its present-day culture.

From a public meeting to the Football League

Peterborough’s football club was built by the city around it.

Peterborough United was formed at a public meeting on 17 May 1934 after the collapse of Peterborough & Fletton United had left the city without its previous senior club.

The beginnings were modest. Money had to be raised, local businesses contributed equipment, council workers helped prepare facilities and supporters rallied around the attempt to build a new football club.

The first competitive match arrived that September. More than four thousand spectators watched Peterborough defeat Gainsborough Trinity 4–0, beginning a story that would eventually take the club from the Midland League to the Football League, the second tier and Wembley.

Why are they called “The Posh”?

The nickname is older than Peterborough United itself.

Its roots lie with Fletton United, where manager Pat Tirrell was reported in 1921 to be looking for “posh players” to build a “posh team”. The expression stuck.

Fletton United later became Peterborough & Fletton United, and although that club eventually disappeared, the nickname survived. When Peterborough United was formed in 1934, The Posh became part of the new club’s identity.

More than a century after that original remark, it remains one of the most distinctive nicknames in English football.

134 League goals in 1960–61

A record-breaking arrival

The Posh entered the Football League at full speed.

Peterborough finally won election to the Football League in 1960 after dominating the Midland League through the second half of the 1950s.

The club then won the Fourth Division championship at the first attempt.

Even more remarkably, Peterborough scored 134 league goals. Terry Bly contributed 52 of them in the league as The Posh established an attacking reputation almost immediately.

Big days in blue and white

The moments every Posh supporter knows

Promotions, cup shocks and trips to Wembley have repeatedly given a relatively compact football club moments on the national stage.

1960–61

134 goals

The club’s first Football League season ended with the Fourth Division title and a goalscoring record that became part of football history.

1964–65

Arsenal beaten at London Road

A famous FA Cup run included victory over Arsenal and carried Peterborough all the way to the quarter-finals.

1992

Wembley and the second tier

Two Ken Charlery goals against Stockport County secured promotion and took The Posh into English football’s second level for the first time.

2014, 2024 & 2025

EFL Trophy success

Three Wembley trophy wins added another distinctive chapter to Peterborough United’s relationship with the national stadium.

A stadium generations still call London Road

Football had already been played on the site long before Peterborough United arrived. The ground was previously used by other local clubs before becoming the new club’s home in 1934.

Rather than being replaced by a completely new stadium somewhere outside the city, London Road has evolved gradually. Stands, terraces, floodlights and spectator facilities have been added and rebuilt around the same football pitch.

That continuity matters. People who watched The Posh decades apart can still talk about going to the same place, crossing the same river and approaching the floodlights from the city.

People who shaped The Posh

Football history is ultimately a collection of human stories. A few names recur again and again in conversations about Peterborough United.

Goals

Terry Bly

The striker at the heart of the extraordinary 1960–61 season, scoring 52 league goals as Peterborough exploded into the Football League.

Longevity

Tommy Robson

A club-record 559 appearances made Robson one of the figures most closely associated with the blue and white shirt.

Player and manager

Chris Turner

A championship-winning player who later managed The Posh through consecutive promotions and the unforgettable 1992 Wembley victory.

An unmistakable era

Barry Fry

One of football’s most recognisable characters, Fry managed Peterborough for nine years and led the club to promotion at Wembley in 2000.

Promotions and trophies

Darren Ferguson

Across several spells, Ferguson has been associated with promotions, attacking football and major trophy successes.

A club tradition

The goalscorers

From earlier heroes to Craig Mackail-Smith, Dwight Gayle, Britt Assombalonga, Ivan Toney and others, prolific forwards repeatedly appear in the Posh story.

The club and the city

Peterborough United is one of the few city institutions whose name is announced, printed and sung in towns and cities across the country every week of the football season.

For local supporters, following The Posh is often something inherited. Parents take children to London Road, old cup ties become family stories and promotion seasons become markers in people’s lives.

For visitors, that makes a home match a genuine piece of Peterborough culture rather than simply a sporting event.

You can discover the wider sporting life of the city through Sport in Peterborough.

Planning a Posh matchday

Find a match: Start with the Discover Peterborough Posh fixtures page, then confirm the latest match details with Peterborough United before travelling.
Where to find the stadium: Weston Homes Stadium, London Road, Peterborough, PE2 8AL, immediately south of the River Nene and close to the city centre.
Coming by train: The stadium is within walking distance of Peterborough railway station, making a home fixture particularly easy to combine with a city visit.
Before you travel: Visit the official Peterborough United website for current ticketing, supporter guidance, stadium arrangements and final fixture information.
Families and first-time supporters: The club provides dedicated information for families and people attending for the first time. Check the current official fan guidance before choosing your seats.
Accessibility: Supporters requiring accessible seating, parking or additional assistance should contact the club in advance so the most appropriate arrangements can be made.

Discover Peterborough tip: if it is your first Posh match, arrive early enough to enjoy the build-up. Walk from the city centre, cross Town Bridge and approach London Road with the other supporters. The journey into the ground is part of the experience.

Continue exploring Peterborough

A home match is easy to build into a wider Peterborough visit, whether football is the main event or one part of the day.

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Make matchday part of your Peterborough visit

Find a fixture first, then use the official club website for current ticketing and matchday arrangements before travelling.

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