Ground #415 - Mount Wise Stadium

Date: 8th November 2025
Location: Newquay, Cornwall
Ground: Mount Wise Stadium

My eighth new ground of 2025 was on Saturday 8th November at Mount Wise Stadium in Newquay, Cornwall. The game was Newquay vs. Wellington in Western League Premier Division.

Mount Wise Stadium is located in a residential area not far from Newquay town centre. It is up the hill less than a mile north of the beach and aquarium and is half a mile west of Newquay railway station. It is bordered by allotments to the south and west, a park to the east and housing to the north. The venue has been home to the club since 1922.

The entrance to the ground is on the southern flank. To the right of this is a covered stand with bench seating (some of these are picnic benches while some are fixed). To the left is shallow grass banking with hard standing in front. There is also an announcer cabin built on the grass bank close to the turnstiles. The northern side of the ground hosts the covered main stand which consists of 5 levels of wooden benching with dugouts either side of the structure.

This grass bank with concrete standing in front extends round behind the western goal. The eastern end has the primary facilities at Mount Wise. There is a food outlet in the south-east corner and a clubhouse building directly behind the goal which includes a wooden balcony area to the right of the goal that spectators can view from. You can also see the pitch from inside the clubhouse which is a very nice modern design.

Newquay had experienced the better start to the season and were sitting in 8th going into the game against 16th place Wellington. Both side were coming off the back of comfortable 3-goal victories and the competitive nature of the game was demonstrated with the first goal after just ninety seconds. It was the visitors who opened the scoring - a sliced shot from Oscar Albano was nudged in by Douglas Camilo. The hosts didn't take long to turn things around, scoring from the spot in the 12th minute with Jack Bray-Evans striking low to the keeper's right after Jack Haggerty had tripped Rhys Simmonds on the right side of the area. And two minutes later it was 2-1 as Bray-Evans drew the keeper and passed for Simmonds to knock home unchallenged. It was an end-to-end game at Mount Wise - from the restart Wellington's James de Selincourt saw his dipping shot from just outside the area palmed away. After this Newquay got on top and had several chances to score. Al Ahmed nicked the ball off a defender and squared for Bray-Evans who looped the ball out of the ground from a few yards out when he scored have scored. The same man then spurned another opportunity when clean through forcing a save from Jack McAndrews this time. Even when Bray-Evans turned provider to lay off for Aaron Dilley to tuck underneath the keeper Newquay were still denied a third via the offside flag. 

They were left to rue this six minutes after the break when Oscar Albano tapped in Alfie Slough's cross to level the scores. A series of free-kicks dictated the following passage of play. Wellington almost got their noses in front in the 56th minute when Sam Towler's effort hit the post. The visitors had to thank McAndrews a few minutes later for acrobatically denying a header from a free-kick that was heading in. He could do nothing in the 66th minute though when Cam Turner's low bobbling free-kick found its way to the bottom corner of the net. The hosts looked more likely to score after this - in the 88th minute Bray-Evans missed another sitter, blazing over from close range from Rhys Simmonds' cross from the left. However, in the first minute of stoppage time Bray-Evans was able to grab his second of the afternoon, making no mistake by shooting across the keeper into the opposite corner after being teed up by Jacob Grange. This finished off the scoring with Newquay emerging 4-2 victors from a thoroughly entertaining match-up. 

Result: Newquay 4-2 Wellington

Division: Western League Premier Division

Attendance: 530