The geography of sport is an excellent way to make studying your local area relevant to your pupils’ everyday lives and passions. Most large towns and cities have at least one football stadium or some kind of arena or concert venue. These stadiums and the areas they are found in are idea for the study of your local area in terms of:

• understanding where places are located and why
• investigating changes in your local area, both positive and negative, and their impacts on the local people, economy, tourism, employment etc
• looking at environmental issues and their management
• urban development, inner city renewal and the use of brownfield sites
• transport issues and their management
• conflicts between local groups of people
• how sport can affect a local area

This resource was written by the RGS-IBG Education Department and reviewed by Rachel Atkins (Bristol Grammar School) and Dr John Gerrard (University of Birmingham)