The club currently play its home matches at Pilot Field, a traditional football ground which once saw 12,527 spectators welcome the visit of Third Division South Leaders  Norwich City to the town in 1953/54.

The first club to play on the Pilot Field site was Rock-a-Nore FC, who gained permission to play on a large meadow at the Pilot Field in 1920. The first match to be played there, on the upper pitch (now The Firs) was later that year when the club played Chichester in the newly-formed Sussex County League. At the end of that season, Rock-a-Nore merged with All Saints FC to become Hastings & St. Leonards FC.

In 1921 the Council brought forward a £6,000 scheme for excavating and laying out two pitches but, because of the substantial slope, hundreds of tons of earth had to be shifted and moved across to build up the area where the grandstand is now. By the time the work was complete it had cost £32,000 (at 1920s currency value), with a further £8,000 for the massive stand which followed two years later. After problems with the drainage had been resolved, the club moved down from the upper pitch to play regularly at the new Pilot Field ground from 1923.

In 1948 the newly formed professional club Hastings United took over the Pilot Field, whilst Hastings & St. Leonards moved back up to the top pitch. Before long, the ground was also hosting  speedway as well. Hastings United continued to play at the ground until June 1985, when they folded with massive debts.

Apart from a brief spell, Hastings & St. Leonards continued to play on the upper pitch. In 1976 they changed their name to Hastings Town. When Hastings United folded, ‘Town applied for, and were accepted into the Southern League; and moved back down to the Pilot Field after an absence of 37 years. The club continued to use the Firs for reserve and Sunday games until it was leased to STAMCO (later St. Leonards Stamcroft FC and then St. Leonards FC) in 1993 until their demise in February 2004.

The decision of Hastings Town to change their name to Hastings United in 2002, and from an all white kit to the old claret & blue of United saw the birth of the second Hastings United.

The stand which has a capacity of 1,000 (the majority on benches), is the main focal point, and provides a good if slightly obstructed view due to the supporting pillars. There is a large covered terrace behind the near goal which is a popular vantage point, and not far from the attractive clubhouse.

Provision has been made outside the clubhouse for spectators to stand with drinks and watch the action. Opposite the stand is a huge grass bank running the length of the touchline, which is largely fenced off and out of bounds as a consequence of safety requirements.

During the 2005/06 season a new covered area over a few steps of terracing was erected behind the goal at the far (Wood End) of the ground. It was named the Cole Warren Stand in memory of two recently deceased supporters. The remnants of the speedway track still surrounds the pitch, which make it impossible to get too close to the action and can impact adversely on atmosphere on match days.

In January 2007 the club confirmed its wish to move from The Council owned Pilot Field, with the Council reproviding a new state-of-the-art stadium elsewhere in the town. Elphinstone Road is largely a residential area, and then run down top pitch urgently needs addressing.

The current club ambition is for a community stadium, an interesting and ambiguous term.  Set against this however is the disturbing facts that in recent years the Hastings Ladies Team were asked to leave the Pilot Field, and have now relocated and renamed as Bexhill United Ladies and the local Sunday league Finals were priced out and moved elsewhere. Certainly it can be argued that morally the club belongs to the Hastings Community, in that it represents the Town and operates from Council owned premises. A case could be made for a modern facility which build on this assertion.

Even if a robust business case can be made for a new stadium, is there the confidence that it will be run under a philosophy which reflects this? The vision of a Community Stadium elsewhere is one that  truly integrates sport and community facilities in a way that it promotes greater accessibility and integration to all, including disadvantaged groups. Or would it simply be  run on purely commercial terms, to the detriment of community, without a transparent account on where generated income would flow?