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A day at Old Trafford with Club Level seats and gourmet dining.
Manchester
11°
Rain showers
Our best tips
Manchester in October averages 8–14°C. Rain is common (roughly 22 days of the month), so a waterproof layer is essential, not optional.
Smart casual is the standard in Premier League hospitality suites. Think collared shirts and smart trousers rather than replica kits. Most venues will turn away guests in sportswear or football shirts.
Arrive at Old Trafford at least two hours before kick-off to enjoy the full pre-match hospitality. Bring a valid photo ID, as most Premier League venues require one for entry.
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Getting around
Old Trafford tram stop on the Altrincham line is a few minutes' walk from the ground. Trams run frequently from Manchester city centre and Piccadilly.
Taxis and ride-hailing services are readily available. On match days, expect some road closures around Sir Matt Busby Way, so allow extra time.
Manchester United Football Ground station (on the Liverpool-Manchester line) is right beside the stadium. Trains run from Manchester Piccadilly and Oxford Road.
Manchester United and AFC Bournemouth sit at opposite ends of English football's story. One is a global institution founded in 1878, the other a south coast club that nearly went out of existence in 2008. Their competitive history was sparse for decades, separated by divisions and circumstance, but Bournemouth's rise to the Premier League in 2015 turned an occasional curiosity into a regular fixture at Old Trafford. The fixture carries a thread of giant-killing romance and modern Premier League drama, played out beneath the shadow of the Stretford End.
Football, bloody hell!
Football is nothing without fans.
Railway workers with muddy boots built the club that would one day fill Old Trafford.
Workers at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's carriage and wagon department in Newton Heath form a football team. Originally known as Newton Heath LYR, the club plays its early matches on a rough pitch at North Road, a far cry from the Theatre of Dreams it would eventually call home.
Two clubs, two entirely different worlds in 1899; decades would pass before they ever shared a pitch.
In the same year that Newton Heath narrowly avoids bankruptcy, a new club is founded in Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth. Boscombe FC, as it is initially known, begins life in the Hampshire League. The two clubs occupy entirely different worlds, and it will be decades before they meet competitively.
Eighty thousand seats, one architect, and a debut defeat to Liverpool. Some traditions start early.
Manchester United, having been renamed from Newton Heath in 1902, moves into a purpose-built stadium on Sir Matt Busby Way (then Warwick Road). Designed by Archibald Leitch, Old Trafford has an initial capacity of around 80,000. The first match is played on 19 February 1910 against Liverpool, though United lose 4-3.
48 places and two goals separated United from humiliation; Milton Graham supplied both.
The most famous chapter in this fixture's history is written at Dean Court. In the FA Cup third round on 7 January 1984, third-division Bournemouth beat Ron Atkinson's Manchester United 2-0. Milton Graham scores both goals in one of the great FA Cup giant-killings. United, a top-flight side packed with internationals, are humbled by a club 48 places below them in the football pyramid.
Three trophies in one season; the chasm to Bournemouth's third-tier obscurity had never looked wider.
Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United complete an unprecedented treble: the Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions League in a single season. The club is now the biggest in English football, regularly filling Old Trafford's 76,000 seats. Bournemouth, meanwhile, are in the third tier, the two clubs separated by a chasm in resources and ambition.
Docked 17 points and facing liquidation; Bournemouth's salvation arrived in the form of a community trust and an unknown young manager called Eddie Howe.
While United are winning their third Champions League title, Bournemouth enter administration and are docked 17 points, finishing bottom of League Two. The club is saved from liquidation by a community trust, and a young manager named Eddie Howe takes charge. It is the beginning of one of English football's most remarkable recovery stories.
From near-extinction to Old Trafford in under a decade; Bournemouth's rise is football's most improbable story.
Under Eddie Howe, Bournemouth win the Championship title and are promoted to the top flight for the first time in their 116-year history. The club that nearly ceased to exist seven years earlier will now visit Old Trafford as a Premier League side. Their first league meeting at the Theatre of Dreams comes in the 2015-16 season, turning this into a regular fixture on the calendar.
Bournemouth's first away league win at Old Trafford; a clean sheet and two goals from Solanke made history in Manchester.
On 9 December 2023, Bournemouth beat Manchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford, their first away league win against United. Dominic Solanke scored twice in a commanding performance that underlined how far the Cherries had come since their days in the lower divisions. It was a result that echoed the spirit of 1984, proving Bournemouth could compete with the biggest clubs on their own turf.
The smallest ground in the top flight, twice a year at Old Trafford; some contrasts never get old.
Bournemouth's continued presence in the Premier League under Andoni Iraola means this fixture is now a twice-yearly appointment. What was once a rare cup curiosity has become a genuine rivalry of contrasts: the global superclub against the smallest ground in the top flight. Old Trafford remains one of the finest venues in world football to watch it unfold, with hospitality that matches the occasion.
