Croydon Sports Arena will be closed for most of October while it gets a £25,000 upgrade. Works on new pole vault and long jump runways, a full re-make of the track lanes and a deep clean of the ...

Stormzy has opened a new football centre in Croydon, close to where he grew up, and it's also fitted out with a recording studio and gaming hub. The Brit Award-winning rapper has taken over the ...

Croydon had a sports facility for every 868 residents, or 1,431 excluding grass pitches. Across the country these figures were 584 and 1,121 respectively.