Main highway closures to hit drivers in Cardiff on Saturday

Cardiff is about for vital site visitors disruption as Wales face South Africa on the Principality Stadium while Cardiff Metropolis host Mansfield City

Cardiff is bracing for a bustling day this Saturday because it performs host to 2 main sporting occasions. Town will see Wales tackle South Africa on the Principality Stadium within the 2025 end-of-year rugby union internationals.

The match is about to kick-off at 3.10pm. Concurrently, Cardiff Metropolis will probably be going through off in opposition to Mansfield City on the Cardiff Metropolis Stadium on Leckwith Highway, with the sport beginning at 3pm.

With each matches anticipated to draw massive crowds, substantial journey disruption is predicted all through the day.

The council has urged each guests and residents to plan their journeys accordingly, and the small print of the deliberate highway closures are as follows:

• Kingsway from its junction with North Highway to its junction with Duke Road.
• Cowbridge Highway East from its junction with Cathedral Highway to its junction with Westgate Road.
• Tudor Road from its junction with Clare Highway to its junction with Wooden Road (entry for residents and merchants will probably be permitted through Fitzhammon Embankment).
• Plantagenet Road and Beauchamp Road from their junctions with Despenser Place to their junctions with Tudor Road (entry for residents and merchants will probably be permitted).
• The next roads will probably be closed of their entirety: Duke Road, Fort St, Excessive Road, St Mary Road, Caroline Road, Wooden Road, Central Sq., Westgate Road, Quay Road, Guildhall Place, Golate, Park Road, Havelock Road and Scott Highway.
• Station Terrace and Guildford Road from the junction with Newport Highway to the junction with Churchill Approach will probably be accessible for buses solely in the course of the occasions of the highway closures. That is to make sure buses have dependable entry to the satellite tv for pc factors in Churchill Approach.

Moreover, Penarth Highway will probably be closed half-hour earlier than the sport finishes and as much as an hour after the ultimate whistle on security grounds for prepare passengers arriving and departing from the prepare station.

Transport for Wales will present further capability on routes out and in of Cardiff for all Autumn Worldwide fixtures. This may embrace

• A full queuing system will probably be in place: Mainline providers: queues on Central Sq. and Valleys’ providers: queues on the rear of the station

Cardiff Queen Road will probably be closed at 4.30pm for this fixture, and the bus interchange will shut between 11am and seven.15pm for this fixture.

Data on the bus diversions attributable to the Wales v South Africa match is detailed on the Cardiff bus web site Main Metropolis Centre Occasions

Taxi rank adjustments

• Saunders Highway taxi rank will shut, and there’ll be a brief taxi rank on the rear of the Cardiff Central station.
• The Saunders Highway taxi rank will shut between 10:45 – 23:59 for all occasions.
• The pop-up taxi rank on the rear automobile park on Penarth Highway will probably be obtainable between 06:00 – 16:00 for all occasions.

Data on Automobile Park closures:

• Riverside Automobile Park: Closed from 20:00 28 November to 04:00 30 November
• Penarth Highway Automobile Park (rear of station): Closed from 06:00 26 November to 04:00 30 November
• Parking at Sophia Gardens will probably be obtainable; the price is £20 for automobiles and £30 for coaches. The automobile park opens at 8.00 am and closes at midnight.
• Metropolis centre automobile parks are additionally obtainable: North Highway Automobile Parks, St David’s Buying Centre, John Lewis, Capitol Buying Centre, and NCP (Adam Road, Dumfries Place and Greyfriars Highway).

On the identical day, Cardiff Metropolis are anticipated to play Mansfield on the Cardiff Metropolis stadium situated on Leckwith Highway. Resulting from this, the next lengths of highway will probably be closed

• Sloper Highway from its junction with Leckwith Highway to its junction with Virgil Road
• Leckwith Highway from its junction with Broad Road to its junction with Kitchener Highway
• Ninian Park Highway from its junction with Leckwith Highway to its junction with Kitchener Highway

As a result of soccer sport, bus diversions may also happen on November 29. This may embrace:

• Service 1 won’t serve Clare Highway, Cornwall Courtroom, Sevenoaks Park, Bessemer Highway, Sloper Highway, Leckwith Shut & Leckwith Place.
• Service 2 won’t serve Leckwith Place, Ninian Park, Sloper Highway, Wynnstay Shut, Powderham Drive and Hereford Road.
• Service 95 to Barry won’t serve the stops Craddock Road, Smeaton Road, Littleton Road, Ninian Park, Jubilee Park and Hadfield Highway.
• Service 95 to Cardiff won’t serve the stops Hadfield Highway, Jubilee Park, Ninian Park, Littleton Road, Smeaton Road and Brunel Road.

Highway restrictions will happen between 4.15 pm and 5.15 pm on Saturday, November 29, 2025, for the Cardiff Metropolis v Mansfield City sport.