Colchester Away Guide (2023/2024 Season)

⚽️ Colchester 🆚 Doncaster Rovers
🗓️ 23/04/2024
⏰ 19:45
🏟️ JobServe Community Stadium    
🏆 Sky Bet League Two

Ticket Information

This is an all ticket game, tickets must be purchased in advance for this fixture.

Pre-paid tickets can be collected from the ticket office adjacent to the club shop.

Address

Colchester United Football Club
JobServe Community Stadium
United Way
Colchester
Essex
CO4 5UP

Supporters Coaches

Retford Supporters Club: (Paul Mayfield 07961 727769, Len South 01302 817347 please do not contact until after 6 pm)

Bus Times:

• Wilfreda: 13:45 (there is no parking available at Wilfrda for this fixture, please contact Len to discuss alternatives)
• Retford: 13:45
• Harworth:
• Bawtry: 14:00
• Rossington:
• Punches: 14:10
• DRI: 14:15
• EPS: 14:30

Prices:

Bus travel is only available to supporter club members, see the below link for more details 

https://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/news/2023/august/away-travel

Members:
• Adults: £31
• Concessions: £29

Are the Supporters Coaches parked at the stadium?

The supporters coaches are parked outside the away end.

Disabled Supporter Information 

Disabled parking can be booked by contacting ticketing@colchesterunited.net

More information can be found below

Click Here 

Travelling By Car

Sat Nav Post Code: CO4 5UP

A12 – JUNCTION 28
The stadium is adjacent to the main A12 trunk road that serves East Anglia.

From the south (Ipswich bound carriageway)
To access the stadium from the south, turn off at Junction 28, turning right at the first roundabout. Go across the bridge and then go straight over the second roundabout, before turning right into United Way from the third roundabout.

From the north (London bound carriageway)
To access the stadium from the north, turn off at Junction 28, turning left at the first roundabout. Turn right into United Way from the second roundabout.

ALTERNATIVE ACCESS
Alternatively, you can come off the A12 at the next junction and take a left onto the A1232. When at the top of this road, bear right back over the A12 towards the traffic lights with the BMW Garage on your left.

Go straight over and up Ipswich Road. At the next set of traffic lights, turn right onto Severalls Lane (signposted just previously for Colchester Cattle Market). Follow this road to its conclusion, where you will pick up signs for the stadium.

Please note that travel restrictions apply around the stadium on a matchday.

Car Parking

There is only limited car parking at the stadium itself, with just under 700 spaces in the main stadium car park.

These can be pre-booked online at www.colutickets.com (including a Print At Home service) or via the Ticket Office by calling 01206 755161.

Parking in advance is £6 and, matchday parking is typically £7 per car.

Please be aware that the immediate area around the Stadium is subject to a Parking Exclusion Zone on matchdays.

Clearway means that you cannot stop to load or unload passengers, wait or park, and the restriction applies to the disabled drivers “blue badge”. 

The following roads have a Clearway “No Stopping” restriction, which also extends to roadside verges and footways:

· Northern Approach Road;
· Boxted Road;
· Langham Road;
· Severalls Lane;
· Axial Way; and
· United Way.

Most other areas have either resident only parking restrictions or yellow lines. Residential areas subject to these restrictions include:-

* Mile End Road
* Nayland Road (particularly near the Dog & Pheasant pub)
* Turner Road 
* Mill Road

Public Transport 

Travelling By Train

Visiting fans arriving by train to Colchester Station should note that the previous shuttle bus service is no longer running.

Taxis serve the station and, if you leave the station and turn right under the railway bridge, the bus stop there serves the 2, 8 and 65 bus, all of which get you to within a ten minute walk of the stadium. (Please see the Bus travel section above on this page).

Pubs

There is a fan park at the stadium that is open to home and away fans.

The kiosks serve food and alcohol inside the stadium

Cash or Cashless?

The JobServe Community Stadium is a cashless stadium.

Rovers Till I Die!