Truro City FC,

Truro City Stadium at the Truro Sports Hub,

West Langarth,

Threemilestone,

Truro

TR4 9AN

Truro City, founded in 1889, have a history defined by their gradual rise through increasingly wide-reaching leagues. Originally playing teams from across the Tamar in the Plymouth & District League, they briefly joined the Cornwall Senior League in the 1930s but withdrew due to a dispute over travel expenses, returning to the Plymouth circuit.

They later became fixtures in the South Western League, with a brief detour to the Cornish Combination in the mid-1970s. A major upturn in investment during the mid-2000s sparked a remarkable rise: four consecutive promotions saw Truro become the first Cornish club to play in the Southern League, capped by a memorable FA Vase triumph at Wembley in 2006/07, where they beat AFC Totton.

Promotion to the Conference South followed in 2011 (renamed National League South in 2015), but relegation in 2019 and the disruption of two COVID-abandoned seasons stalled their momentum. They finally earned promotion back to the National League South in 2023, and just two seasons later, achieved another step up—reaching the National League for the first time.

This recent period of success for Truro City followed a turbulent few years marked by financial struggles and a prolonged spell without a permanent home. After selling their old ground at Treyew Road and seeing plans for a Cornwall Council-backed “Stadium for Cornwall” fall through, the Tinners endured a nomadic existence, groundsharing in turn with Torquay United, Plymouth Parkway, Taunton Town, and even Gloucester City.

Stability began to return in 2023 when a Canadian consortium acquired the club, bringing renewed ambition and direction. At the start of the 2024/25 season, Truro finally came home, playing their first match in Cornwall since 2020 at a new stadium on the outskirts of the city.

By Supporters Club Coach – Sales have already ended for this fixture

By Car – Truro City’s ground is about 200 miles by road from Nailsworth, and in good traffic (which may not be guaranteed at Easter weekend, to say the least) the journey via the M5 and A30 should take between three and four hours.

Once on the A30, at the Chiverton Cross roundabout, take the A390 signposted Truro. Then follow signs to the Langarth Park and Ride site. The football ground is immediately adjacent to this.

Postcode for GPS is: TR4 9AN

By train: It looks like the nearest place to Stroud from which it is possible to catch a train to Truro on Easter Monday and arrive in time for the match is Bristol Parkway. Trains leave there for Truro (in each case with one change en route) at 07:02, 07:58, 08:30, 09:21, arriving at Truro at 10:59,11.59, 12:29 and 13:33, respectively. The only train back that is of any use leaves Truro at 18:52, getting back (with no change required) to Parkway at 22:26. Return tickets are £86.80, but judicious use of split and/or advance ticketing can reduce the cost by up to one-third.

The usual recommended route for getting from Truro Station (itself about a 15-minute walk west of the city centre) to the stadium (three miles west of the city)- the Truro Park and Ride bus – does not operate on Easter Monday. Instead, you can take bus 14 (destination St Ives, departs from opposite the station at xx:31 past the hour) or bus 18 (destination Penzance, departs from opposite the station at xx:01) to Threemilestone Industrial Estate, a short walk from the ground. Buses back to Truro leave from there after the match at 17:18 and 18:14

The Truro City Stadium is the newest in the National League, having opened at the start of the 2024/25 season. While smart, it’s pretty basic, and some stands are located well back from the playing area. It might possibly be the only ground in the fifth tier to have wind turbines visible behind two stands.

When segregation is in operation, away fans are allocated one-half or all of the Western stand, which is an uncovered standing terrace.

Ticket prices are as follows (including a booking fee):

Adult – £17.90 (£19.00 on the day, if available)

Concession – £15.90 (£17.00 on the day, if available)

Under-18 – £6.90 (£8.00 on the day, if available)

Family (2 adults and up to 3 under-18s): £44.90 (£46.00 on the day, if available)

Tickets can be purchased here.

Although there are no seated facilities for away fans, Truro City will permit away fans who can’t stand for 90 minutes to purchase tickets in Block A of the Eden Hot Tubs North Stand, which is seated and covered, but sadly is devoid of a hot tub

The New Years’ Eve match at the New Lawn against the Tinners ended in a 1-1 draw, with a Rovers’ first-half goal by Jili Buyabu being cancelled out just five minutes later.

John Askey was appointed manager of Truro City following their first season in the National League South, in which they finished 16th, ahead of the 2024 campaign. At the time, reports suggested his primary task would be to help the club—finally back home in Cornwall after several years away—avoid relegation. In the end, he did far more, guiding the team to promotion and into the fifth tier for the first time in their history.

With over two decades of managerial experience at clubs including Macclesfield Town, Shrewsbury Town, Port Vale, York City and Hartlepool United, Askey has built a reputation for working wonders on modest budgets, unearthing young talent, and reigniting stalled careers. No club is more closely linked to him than Macclesfield Town, where he spent 30 years—as a player from 1984 to 2003, and as manager in two spells totalling six years a decade apart. Often seen as a club that punched above its weight, Macclesfield saw Askey described on his departure as having “achieved the impossible.”

Truro fans will no doubt be hoping he can bring a touch of that same shrewd genius to the South West.

Good Friday confirmed what long seemed to have been on the cards – that Truro City’s visit to the National League would soon be over.  They’d never been outside the relegation zone all season-long, although they had picked themselves up from the bottom place for a few weeks. But now the Tinners follow Sheffield Wednesday (saying farewell to the Championship) and Leamington (going down from the National League North) to become the third team in the top sixth tiers of English men’s football to have their relegation confirmed. May they return some day, strengthened and fortified. But for now, they still have pride to play for.

Truro City unveiled a new club crest in 2024, coinciding with their return to Cornwall after four years in exile. The updated design features a silhouette of Truro Cathedral alongside the St Piran’s Cross, a nod to Cornish identity. Previous versions of the crest included a White Tiger—an animal not native to Cornwall—which aligned with the club’s former nickname, The White Tigers.

With the redesign, the club also introduced two preferred informal names: The Tinners, reflecting Cornwall’s rich tin mining heritage, and City, acknowledging Truro’s status as the Duchy’s only city.

Although it’s not the largest settlement in Cornwall in terms of population (which one is depends on how you define “settlement”, and Truro has a population in the region of a bit more than 20,000), Truro, as Cornwall’s only City, is, in effect, its cultural and commercial capital. Many of the streets, and some buildings, are coated in the distinctive local Cornish granite, and the Cathedral (largely constructed in the 19th Century) dominates the skyline.