Gander Green Lane has been the home of Sutton Utd since 1912 (except for a six-year gap including the First World War period). Crystal Palace Women’s team also play matches at the ground. While substantial improvements were made to away fans’ accommodation during the U’s three-season stay in the EFL, including the construction of new covered seating and standing areas, these stands were reallocated to home fans following Sutton’s untimely return to the National League.

There are numerous peculiarities about the ground – the seats in the main stand were donated by Chelsea, and so are blue and red, rather than the traditional chocolate and yellow colours of Sutton Utd, while the curved form of some of the terraces derives from the former presence of a running track around the edge of the pitch.

For now, away fans are located in one of these curved, uncovered, standing-only, terraces—known, Italian-style (an allusion to Sutton’s Anglo-Italian Cup triumph?), as the ‘Curva Terrace’—at the south-west corner of the ground, accessed directly from Gander Green Lane.

Ticket prices are as follows (there is a £3 surcharge for tickets purchased from the kiosk at the ground on the day, although digital tickets purchased on the day incur no surcharge):

Adult – £21

Concession (62+, Students, Blue Light) – £16

Junior (14-17) – £8

Child (U14) – £2 (only available with an adult or concession ticket, max of three)

Carer – free

Tickets can be purchased here.

Curva!

This season’s home fixture against Sutton Utd, played in Nailsworth back in August 2025, was one to remember for Rovers, but equally one to forget for Sutton Utd: the scoreline FGR 4 – 0 Sutton Utd tells the story adequately. Two of the goals came from Kyle McAllister, one from Jordan Moore-Taylor, and one from Harry Whitwell.

Rovers’ last visit to Gander Green Lane, back in August 2024, was also a rewarding one, even if the final scoreline of 2-1 was less emphatic than the most recent home game. Goals from Christian Doidge and Charlie McCann let Rovers move up one place in the league table to fifth.

Sutton Utd appointed Chris Agutter as Head Coach in October 2025, replacing Steve Morison, who had arrived at Gander Green Lane in January 2024. Agutter came to Sutton from National League South team Worthing, where he had guided the team to the play-offs. Agutter’s prior career both as player (a brief spell at Brighton and Hove Albion) and manager had largely been spent among south-coast teams: he managed the youth team at the Seagulls, the academy at Eastbourne Borough, and the first team at Isthmian League member Hastings Utd, while he also spent some time inland as head coach of the under-18 and under-21 teams at Stevenage. His appointment at Sutton represents his first spell in charge of a team in the fifth tier.

Sutton United Fans Forum –

Fans’ Forum – Sutton United

Disappointingly, in short. In the relegation zone as 2025 turned into 2026, and having spent over one-half of the first section of the season treading water, the U’s have not managed to rebuild and re-assert themselves in the National League as they might have hoped to, two years after they were relegated from League Two alongside Rovers. The appointment of a new head coach in October has, so far, failed to turn things around, so perhaps the hope is that new players can be signed that will make a difference rapidly.  However, Sutton have performed well against a few high-flying teams, holding highly-fancied York City to a 2-2 draw on the opening day of the season, beating Carlisle Utd 2-1 later in August, and besting Halifax Town 2-0 in November. Seasonal lows to date include a 7-0 thrashing by Fulham’s Under-21s team in the National League Cup, as well as the 4-0 defeat that Rovers inflicted on Sutton at the New Lawn in August.

The club badge is derived from the coat of arms of the former Metropolitan Borough of Sutton and Cheam (which was abolished when the area around Sutton was administratively transferred from Surrey to Greater London in 1965). The colours are slightly different, and the club’s version omits the former council slogan, ‘Serve God and Be Cheerful’.

The prolific blogger and chronicler of much that happens in Greater London who calls himself “Diamond Geezer”, following extensive research and street-trekking, described Sutton as the most boring borough of the 32 that make up the city. Even though the borough includes much more than the town of Sutton itself, this is not necessarily an unfair assessment, and not a notion that reading the Wikipedia page on Sutton does much to dispel. Although Sutton itself is recorded in the Domesday Book, it remained a small settlement for centuries aftaerwards. It subsequently became an important stopping-off point on the turnpike road between London and Brighton, before eventually being subsumed into Surrey and then outer London suburbia, particularly after the railways arrived. While the town centre includes a few pleasant buildings, plus the usual sort of pubs and chain stores you’d expect to find in a relatively wealthy London suburb, there is little that really stands out as being of unusual interest.

Even attempting to identify famous people linked with Sutton has an aspect of clutching at straws about it. The Rolling Stones played early gigs at The Red Lion pub in the town, and it was there that Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman became permanent members of the band. Singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading lived there for a time in the 1970s, while botanist David Bellamy was educated locally. Naked Civil Servant Quentin Crisp was born in Sutton, while Georgian-British singer Katie Melua lived on Gander Green Lane itself.

On the other hand, London as a whole is nearby, so if you want to make a weekend of it, there is a lot more to see in the broader area around Sutton.