Gloucester City Football Christmas Fireworks, Funfair, Snow & Real Reindeer

Date: 14 December 2025

Time: 4.00pm until 9.00pm

Funfair: 4.00pm until 9.00pm

Reindeer: 4.00pm until 6.00pm

Fireworks: 6.45pm and 8.15pm

Lasers: 7.30pm

Venue: TigerTurf Stadium, Sudmeadow Road, Hempsted, Gloucester GL2 5HS

Event Highlights:

🦌MEET SANTAS REINDEER! – Two reindeer from Angel's Animal Ark will be with us on site from the time the gates open until 6.00pm (a full 45 minutes before any fireworks are launched).

🎡FUNFAIR, SWEETS AND TREATS!! – The entire event will be supported by the outstanding Angus Pedrick funfairs, whose rides will be open from opening until closing time!! There will be something for everyone here – from smaller rides for our younger guests to the full-on adrenalin-pumping, heart-racing thrills and spills of the much larger rides.

🚐THE XMAS DUBS ARE COMING TO GLOUCESTER CITY AFC!! - Check out the crazy crew with their crazy wheels, raising funds for The Grand Appeal (The Bristol Children's Hospital Charity). Please dig deep, deep, deep for this quite brilliant cause!

🌨️ SNOW MACHINES!! – Kids: expect to get showered in “snow” with the snow machines that will be there thanks to Matt Major of Major Entertainments Ltd.

🎵 🎤🎸 ALL NIGHT MUSIC AND SOUNDS!! – Matt will also be providing seasonal sounds throughout the event with his fantastic stage-system.

📍LASER SHOW!! – This event really is the gift that keeps on giving!! Matt will be lighting up the skies, in between the fireworks displays with a 10-minute, seasonal laser show to wow all our guests, young and old! This will start at approximately 7.30pm.

🎆TWO UNFORGETTABLE FIREWORK DISPLAYS – At 6.45pm, there will be a 6-minute, lower-noise show for our very young guests. Watch their faces light up at this beautiful display!

🍔 🍺 FOOD AND DRINK – A large selection of superb food and drinks will be available, on sale from around the various stalls within the spectators’ areas, all provided by GCAFC!!

🎟️ 🎟️ACCESS/PARKING/TICKETING - TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE AVAILABLE, PRE-BOOKED THROUGH THIS PLATFORM. THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST, MOST RECOMMENDED (AND CHEAPEST!) OPTION. THE GATE STAFF WILL BE EQUIPPED TO TAKE PAYMENTS FROM WALK-INS.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION VERY CAREFULLY...

!!THERE IS NO PARKING ON-SITE AT THIS EVENT!!

CLFDE recommends using the ample car parks near to GCAFC, around the Quays area. One great thing to note about this event, is that it coincides with the last day of the Christmas Market in the Quays. Why not make a whole day of this fantastic opportunity?! Once finished at the Christmas Market, it’s only a 5-minute walk out of the Docks, across the road to the stadium (down Sunmeadow

For those visitors with laudable green credentials, or for those who fancy a drink (and waking up complete with their driving licences 😉), the ground really is only a short walk from the Quays, or if coming from the City centre, there are regular No 8 and No 11 Stagecoach bus services from the Bus Hub to various stops within a minute or two’s walk from the stadium.

THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF MARSHALS AND SIA-TRAINED OPERATORS ON HAND TO ASSIST OUR VISITORS. PLEASE FOLLOW THEIR INSTRUCTIONS - THEY ARE THERE TO HELP, NOT HINDER! RUDE AND ABUSIVE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS THEM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED AND OFFENDERS CAN EXPECT TO BE TURNED AWAY!!!

There will be the facility to allow drop-off for taxi/minibus/private car disabled passengers, but it will be a fair way back down toward Sunmeadow Road. The roads will be very busy with vehicular traffic – be very careful out there!