Middlesbrough after a night out, it is also a popular restaurant dish with many establishments in around Teesside serving restaurant quality versions. In the Middlehaven ward, is the Transporter Bridge Visitor Centre, opened in 2000 and offering its own exhibitions charting the stirring past of the surrounding industrial powerhouse, as well as that of the singular structure it commemorates. Middlesbrough is home to the Championship football team, Middlesbrough F.C., owned by local haulage entrepreneur Steve Gibson. The club is based at the Riverside Stadium on the banks of the River Tees, where they have played since moving from Ayresome Park, their
Middlesbrough W.F.C. Middlesbrough W.F.C. Middlesbrough Women Football Club are the women's side of Middlesbrough. Founded in 1976, they currently play their matches in the , with home games being played at Bedford Terrace, the home of Billingham Town F.C. Middlesbrough WFC also have a reserve side competing in the FA Women's Premier League Reserve Northern Division and a development side competing in the North Riding Women’s League, with both playing their home games at MFC Foundation, Eston. Middlesbrough Women FC were formed in 1976. Originally known as Cleveland Spartans, they were coached in the early days by then Middlesbrough FC players Mark