Guide to the Gardens: Loughborough Lightning vs Trailfinders Women

• Tickets for Lightning vs Trailfinders Women remain available to purchase online HERE – with prices starting at £7.50 adult and £3 junior*. 
• The ticket office will be open in the Saints Store until 5pm, then the ticket office windows will be open from 5pm until 8pm.
• Your match tickets are attached to your purchase confirmation email – please ensure you have these either printed on A4 paper, viewable on your smartphone, or added to your smartphone digital wallet before arriving at the stadium. Screenshots of your tickets are not accepted by the scanners on our turnstiles.
• Those who have not printed their tickets at home, or are not able to show their barcode on a mobile phone, will be able to have their matchday ticket printed at the Ticket Office for a £2.50 fee.
• This match is included in a Loughborough Lightning Season Ticket for the 2024/25 season – Season Ticket Holders should have received their individual match tickets for this fixture.

Below are the opening hours for Lightning vs Trailfinders. The Saints Store will close at 5pm (along with the ticket counter in the store), a Lightning trailer shop will be open for the game.

5.00pm: Ticket office windows open
5.45pm: Car parks open
6.45pm: Stadium open, Members Bar open, Lightning trailer shop in Supporters Village open
7.45pm: Lightning vs Trailfinders Women KO
8.00pm: Ticket office close
8.30pm: Lightning vs Trailfinders Women HT
8.45pm: Lightning trailer shop in Supporters Village close
9.30pm: Lightning vs Trailfinders Women FT
10.15pm: Members Bar close
Midnight: Car park close

• Face painting is available inside Members Bar in the Barwell Stand.
• Come and make a sign for the game in the Foundation building close to the Gate 3 entrance!
• Have your photograph taken with the Women’s Rugby World Cup trophy in Members Bar.
• Soloist Jordan Jones will be performing in Members Bar before the match and at half-time.
• Get your photograph with Bernie the mascot in and around Members Bar before the game.
• There’s a Question and Answer session before the game with a non-playing member of the Lightning squad, 15 minutes before kick-off before the Carlsberg Stand.
• Make sure you’re pitchside after the final whistle for your chance to receive a signed ball from a Lightning player.
• After the match there will also be a presentation for our confirmed departing players.
• The winner of the Lightning Supporters’ Player of the Season, sponsored by the Saints Supporters Club, will also be announced. You can still cast your vote by clicking HERE.
• The Travis Perkins Challenge at half-time will see participants kicking rugby balls into large bags!
• Watch out at half-time for the young rugby players who have participated in our Under-9s festival, who will be parading the pitch.
• Club of the match Old Northamptonians RFC will be providing the guard of honour as the teams run out onto the pitch, be sure to give them a wave!

• Lightning versus Trailfinders Women is included in the 2024/25 Lightning Season Ticket.
• Season Ticket Holders should have received their individual match tickets for this fixture – please contact [email protected] if you are yet to receive your tickets.

• Car Park D is available for supporters, priced £3.
• Car Park hangers do not apply for this fixture.
• Car Parks open from 5.45pm.
• After the Car Parks close at midnight, there will be no access to any vehicle left behind until Monday morning.
• Given that cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens sits in a residential area of the town, Saints strongly urge all supporters to use the Club’s Car Parks. Should they choose not to do so, supporters must park with due care and respect for the needs of local residents and businesses.

• Members Bar (Barwell Stand) will be open from 6.45pm. Hot and cold drinks will be available along with food options.
• Members Bar will close around 45 minutes after the final whistle.
• Please be aware that cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens is a cashless stadium; all bars and food outlets will only accept card payments.

• ​The Club requests that supporters refrain from standing at the side of the pitch to watch the warm-up to prevent congestion. Please watch the warm-up from your seat.
• There will NOT be an official timekeeper in attendance at the game on Friday, so the in-stadium clocks will not stop during the game. 
• Saints’ Fan Radios will NOT be in use on Friday.