Opened in August 1955 by Jim Peters, marathon runner. Cost £30,000. The stadium had an asphalt cycle track and a cinder athletic's track. The grandstand had 400 seats. In 1956 the gateshead Harriers moved to the stadium. They were formed in 1904 at St. Mary's Church, Oakwellgate. The first tenant club was Gateshead FC who moved here from Redheugh Park in 1971. The club folded in 1973. In 1974 the newly formed Gateshead Town were the tenant. In 1974 the cinder track was replaced by an artificial track. Gateshead Town were replaced by South Shields FC and became Gateshead United. The club folded after 3 years. In 1977 a new Gateshead FC was formed. In 1979 Gateshead Council decided to transform the stadium into a venue for international meetings. The stand was taken down and sold for £3000 to Blaydon Rugby Football Club. It was replaced by a 3,300 seat cantilevered stand. There were 8,450 uncovered seats around the other three sides. Gateshead Senators, an American football team, have played at the stadium since 1988. Rock concerts have been staged here (Tina Turner and Bon Jovi in the 1990s). In August 1995 the stadium was full for a friendly match between Gateshead FC and Newcastle United. In 1998 Gateshead Thunder rugby league club formed. Primarily however, the stadium is the north east's leading athletics venue. It staged the European Cup in 1999 and 2000. It holds annual Grand Prix meetings for the IAAF's Diamond League. In May 2006 an indoor athletics centre was opened. It was designed by Faulkner Browns and cost £9.5 million. It houses a hub for the English Institute of Sport which offers training for athletes, and Gateshead College's Academy of Sport. There are also fitness suites, three football pitches and outdoor training areas. In 2009 Gateshead FC revealed plans to build their own stadium on the former North Durham cricket ground, but this never happened. In July 2010 a new 4000 seat East Stand was built. Designed by S&P Architects and built by Willmott Dixon. It has a 30m cantilevered roof designed by Fabric Architects, covered by a PVC coated polyester fabric held in tension across five barrel vaulted sections.

The athletics track was opened in August 1982 on the site of Silksworth Colliery, which had closed in 1971. Sunderland Harriers and Athletic Club are based at the athletics track. They formed in 1897. The complex also includes a sports ground and artificial ski slope. Next door is a swimming pool, tennis and wellness centre.

In March 1950 Newcastle City Council announced plans to lay out a City Stadium on the former Ouseburn refuse tip on Warwick Street. The Ouseburn flowed under the site through a large culvert (HER 5046). The initial plan was to cover the site in soil and turf and lay out a football pitch and cycling and running tracks. The ultimate aim was to build two stands on either side of the track, each to seat 43,000 people. A terrace at the Warwick Street End would accommodate 8,500. This stadium would have been bigger than St. James Park. The site would also house an indoor sports centre with badminton courts and an ice rink. Underneath the stadium would be a multi storey car park. The first phase of the stadium (the football pitch and racing tracks) opened in June 1955. There was a cinder track, a small wooden pavilion and an entrance block. Plans for the grand City Stadium were abandoned and by 1967 the site had fallen into disrepair. Today the site is open parkland with a children's playground and an artificial five-a-side pitch. The cinder running track can still be seen.

Built at a cost of £60,000 to designs by Matkin & Hawkins. Opened in March 1940. By the 1960s the stadium had lost its licence and became a flapping track. In 1964 a speedway meeting attracted a crowd of 6,500. Three speedway teams were based here - the Saints (1964), the Stars (1971-73) and the Gladiators (1974). Greyhound racing returned in the 1990s after a major refurbishment. Sunderland is only one of 25 licensed greyhound tracks in Britain (there were 77 in 1951). Three other tracks are in the North East, at Easington, Wheatley Hill and Cambois.

In March 1930 South Shields Adelaide Association Football Club relocated from Horsley Hill to Redheugh Park in Gateshead. The club was thus renamed Gateshead FC. In 1937 a greyhound company became a co-tenant of Redheugh Park and the stadium was revamped. A Gateshead League match attracted 20,752 spectators. On 28 May 1960, Gateshead were voted out of the League. Greyhound racing finished in 1966. In 1971 the non-League football club moved to Gateshead International Stadium. In 1973 the stadium was demolished. Today part of the site is occupied by a Powerleague five-a-side football centre.

Opened in 1872. There was still a running track in Gateshead in the 1880s. It had closed by 1935.

Opened in 1868 but moved to Friar's Goose in 1872 due to railway construction.

Laid out in 1863. The ground had a running track almost 600 yards long. Dog racing was also offered along with rabbit coursing, quoits and pigeon shooting. Fenham Park Grounds closed in 1875.

The home of Newcastle Blue Star Football Club until 2007. Now the home of Gosforth Rugby Football Club. Gosforth RFC was re-formed in 1996 by a group of the original members who were unhappy when the club went professional. The re-formed club set up at Bullocksteads and adopted their old kit of green and white hoops.

Originally the sports ground of Newcastle Chronicle and Journal. Bought by Gosforth Rugby Football Club in 1989 for £55,000. They had sold their previous ground. In 1990 the new stand and clubhouse was opened. In 1995 Cameron Hall Developments, owned by Sir John Hall, chair of Newcastle United, took a 76% share in the club. The club was renamed Newcastle Falcons and won the Premiership in its first season of 1997-8. Hall sold his share to Dave Thompson, a former player. Terraces were added to both ends of the existing East Stand. The south terrace was covered. A new West Stand was built. These developments, by TTH Architects and Metnor Construction, has created a capacity of 10,000. During the 1990s Newcastle United reserves played at Kingston Park. From 2007 to 2009 the ground was shared with Newcastle Blue Star Football Club. In 2007 the ground was sold to the Northern Rock Bank, sponsors of the Falcons. The bank sold it on to the University of Northumbria, who owned the adjoining sports ground at Bullocksteads.