Vista Road Recreation Ground Vista Road Recreation Ground Vista Road Recreation Ground is a cricket ground in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. The first recorded first-class cricket match on the ground was in 1931 when Essex County Cricket Club played there against Lancashire. Essex played a total of 60 first-class matches on the ground between 1931 and 1966, playing their final first-class match there against Leicestershire in the 1966 County Championship. The ground has also held five Second XI fixtures between 1948 and 1952 for the Essex Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship. In local cricket, the ground is the home venue of Clacton Cricket Club.
F.C. Clacton season, in which they finished second from bottom, and were relegated to Division One. They returned to the Premier Division as Division One champions in 1994–95, and won the Eastern Floodlit Cup the following season. They were relegated again in 1997–98, but won the Division One Cup and Division One at the first attempt to make an immediate return. In 1999–2000 they won the East Anglian Cup for a second time, and in 2001–02 won the League Cup. In 2005–06 Clacton failed to win a league match all season, finishing bottom of the Premier Division with only a single point