Boreham Wood FC,

Meadow Park,

Broughinge Road,

Borehamwood

WD6 5AL

The club, based in the Hertfordshire town of Borehamwood—spelled as one word, unlike the club’s name—was founded in 1948 following a merger between Boreham Wood Rovers and Royal Retournez, beginning life in the Mid-Herts League. They later progressed through various ‘Greek’ amateur leagues based around Greater London and surrounding areas, including the Parthenon, Spartan, and Athenian leagues, before joining the Isthmian League in 1974. Nearly three decades later, they were transferred to the Southern League, earning promotion to the Conference South in 2010, and then to the newly renamed National League in 2015.

Aside from their relegation in 2023/24, Boreham Wood have generally been play-off contenders, reflecting the ambition and stability provided by long-serving chairman Danny Hunter. They’ve also enjoyed some notable FA Cup runs—most memorably in 2021/22, when they reached the fifth round after knocking out AFC Wimbledon and AFC Bournemouth, before falling 2–0 to Everton. They also reached the third round in 2020/21 (losing to Millwall) and 2022/23 (losing to Accrington Stanley after a replay, and beating Bristol Rovers 2-0 on the way).

Their home ground, Meadow Park, also hosts the Arsenal youth team, and until 2024, served as the main venue for the Arsenal Women’s team.

Meadow Park has been Boreham Wood’s home since 1963, although it has since gone extensive redevelopment, with three new stands having been constructed since the late 1990s. It has a capacity of 4,500, including 1,700 seated places. The Arsenal women’s team were previously based at the ground, and still play some matches there.

All matches at the ground are segregated, with away fans hosted at the South End of the ground, accessible via turnstiles 9 and 10. The away area comprises 359 (unreserved) covered seats in the West Stand along with areas of uncovered standing in the South and South East terraces. An away fan zone is provided by the South Corner of the stadium.

Ticket prices are as follows:

Adults – £20

OAPs – £18

U-20s (16-19) – £14

U-16s (14-15) – £10

U-14 (accompanied by Adult or OAP) – £6

Tickets can be purchased here.

Borehamwood is located in Hertfordshire, just outside the present-day boundary of Greater London, between Watford and Barnet. It is a journey of about 114 miles from Nailsworth, taking around two-and-a-half hours by road if all goes smoothly.

By Supporters Club Coach – this is by far the cheapest and easiest way to travel. For information about Away Travel, including precise details of pick-up locations – look here. For this match, the departure times are Stonehouse Brunel Way – 10:00am, Sainsbury’s Dudbridge – 10:15am ,The New Lawn – 10:30am, Cirencester Waitrose – 10:55 am.

The prices for coach tickets to this match are as follows (Supporters’ Club members get a £3 discount): Adults £35, U-16 £20, U-11 £10

To book a seat with the supporter’s club discount, please call 0333 123 1889  on Monday, Thursday, or Friday at 11am to 2pm.  Please try to book early.

By Car –

Ground Post Code – WD6 5AL

Travel to Borehamwood by car will take around two-and-a-half to three hours  (about 114 miles from Nailsworth).

Car Parking

The recommended public car park is Brook Road Public Car Park at Brook Road, WD6 5HQ, a short walk away. as the stadium car park is for players and officials. 

Any supporters who require disabled facilities on a match day at Meadow Park can email ticketoffice@borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk for assistance and more information.

By Train – it is possible to travel from Stroud to Borehamwood (using Elstree and Borehamwood station on the Thameslink line) and back by train in a day. The journey typically takes around two-and-a-half hours, with changes required at Paddington (for the Elizabeth Line downstairs) and Farringdon. Elstree and Borehamwood station is about a 20-minute walk from the ground. The last train back from Elstree and Borehamwood with a connection to Stroud leaves at 8.16pm (with an additional change at Swindon). The undiscounted return ticket price (valid for up to one month) is about £68, but this price can be reduced a little using advance and/or split tickets.

Luke Garrard returned to Boreham Wood a few weeks into the 2023/24 season, having been sacked late in the previous season once it had become clear that the club were to be relegated to the National League South from the fifth tier. However, Garrard’s replacement, Ross Jenkins, failed to make an impact at the start of the new season, and Garrard was rapidly invited to take up his former post again. By most measures, he had had a notably successful spell as manager first time round, leading one of the smaller clubs in the National League (in terms of fan base) to the promotion play-offs on three occasions during his nine years of leadership.

As a player (a defensive midfielder), Garrard made 140 appearances for Boreham Wood betwen 2010 and 2015 (when he was appointed Manager). Prior to that he had made nearly 100 appearances for AFC Wimbledon during their years in the Isthmian League, Conference South and Conference.  Early in his career he had also played for Swindon Town, before joining a series of non-league clubs in the Hertfordshire area.

By any measure, pretty well. The club spent about two-thirds of the first half of the season in the play-off places and topped the league table at the very end of 2025. Their results against the most favoured teams might be their Achilles’ heel, however: in August they lost 2-0 to Rochdale, drew 3-3 with Carlisle Utd, and in September drew 1-1 with each of Scunthorpe Utd and Southend Utd, and drew 2-2 with York City in October. The Wood Army will be hoping that their 2-0 home victory over Carlisle Utd in December will set the stage for similar performances as they face the other big teams for the second time in the season.

This season’s home encounter with Boreham Wood, played in Nailsworth in October 2025, was a closely-fought match. It ended up in a 2-1 victory for Rovers, with a Jili Buyabu goal coming late in the first half and a Harvey Bunker penalty following in the second half to cancel out a Wood equaliser. in which an early strike by Kairo Mitchell was soon cancelled out by the conversion of a York City penalty by Ollie Pearce. Rovers remained on top of the league table following the draw.

Rovers’ most recent visit to Meadow Park was as long ago as February 2017.

It was a 2-0 National League victory to Rovers, with Christian Doidge and Omar Bugiel – the latter making his debut appearance for FGR, as a substitute – both scoring goals in the final ten minutes of ordinary time. Bugiel had just joined Rovers from Adam Hinshelwood’s Worthing.

If you want to refresh your memory, there is a report on the Boreham Wood website here

Boreham Wood –  the wood itself – was historically part of the parish of Elstree. The modern town of Borehamwood only really came into being after the Second World War, as the London County Council built housing estates in the area to house those displaced by bombings in the capital or otherwise seeking to leave London. Although there are other light industries in the town, the area has been dominated since the 1910s by number of film studios, known collectively (if informally) as the Elstree Studios, where many films and TV shows have been made.