3pm 18 April 2025
National League, South
Truro City 0 Torquay United 1 (att 3,306)
The Good Friday fixture list provides limited options for new grounds these days, so it was some months ago that I settled on a visit to Truro City's new stadium. It was just as well I decided early, as tickets for the visit of Torquay sold out well in advance.
It was not just a local derby, or at least as local a derby as a Cornish team at this level can get, but it was also a crucial game in the battle for promotion. Truro went into the game top on goal difference, just three points clear of fourth placed Torquay, on a day when the teams in second and third were also playing each other.
By the final whistle Torquay had narrowed the gap to the leaders to a point, and those leaders were now Worthing, with Truro's defeat seeing them drop a place. Just two points separate the top five.
It was no surprise that it was a tense game, not helped by a wet and windy afternoon that made viewing difficult, especially with such a large crowd packed into a relatively small ground.
Torquay's winner, 20 minutes after half time, was an excellent strike and came after Truro had made the better start to the second period. The home side piled on pressure as the game approached its end but, despite coming very close, they couldn't level.
The Truro City Stadium, a name that I suspect will change once a suitable sponsor gets involved, is a few miles outside Truro in Threemilestone.
There's a seated stand on the far side, flanked by a pair of sections of open terracing. One end has a covered terrace, and the rest of the ground is open, for now at least. There's plenty of space to develop the facilities, and if Truro do win promotion they might need to.
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