The Etihad Stadium was built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in east Manchester and reconfigured as Manchester City’s home in 2003. It currently seats 53,400, with a major North Stand expansion under construction that will push capacity above 60,000 along with a new fan zone and hotel complex.
What happens here
- Manchester City Premier League and Champions League matches.
- Major concerts in the summer.
- Selected events on the wider Etihad Campus, which also includes:
- Joie Stadium (Manchester City Women, ~7,000 capacity)
- Co-op Live (23,500-capacity arena, opened 2024)
- Manchester Regional Arena (athletics, 6,500)
Who runs hospitality and catering
Levy UK, part of Compass Group, holds the premium catering and hospitality contract at the Etihad and is also the catering partner at Co-op Live next door – making the Etihad Campus one of the largest single contracts in UK matchday hospitality.
What’s it like to work here
The Etihad Campus is unique in the UK: a single workforce can plausibly cover three different venues in a single week (Etihad on Saturday, Joie Stadium midweek for women’s football, Co-op Live for a Wednesday concert). For Manchester-based casual staff, that’s a level of week-on-week shift density that no other UK venue offers.
Levy UK runs constant rolling recruitment for the campus, with roles ranging from kiosks and bars through to private dining and sky-box hospitality.
