East End Park
| East End Park | |
|---|---|
|
|
| The interior of East End Park as seen from the Norrie McCathie booth (2015) | |
| Data | |
| place | Halbeath Road Dunfermline KY12 7RB, Fife , Scotland
|
| Coordinates | 56 ° 4 '32.2 " N , 3 ° 26' 31" W |
| owner | Dunfermline Athletic |
| opening | 1885 |
| First game | 13 July 1885 Dunfermline Athletic - Edinburgh University 2-1 |
| Renovations | 1997-2000 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 11,480 seats |
| playing area | 105 × 64 m |
| Societies) | |
| Events | |
|
|
The East End Park is a football stadium in the Scottish town of Dunfermline , United Kingdom . It is the home and property of the Dunfermline Athletic Football Club . The facility has 11,480 seats.
history
The original stadium was in 1885 on a rented plot of the railway company North British Railway built. The first game on July 13, 1885 played Dunfermline Athletic against Edinburgh University . The friendly game ended with a 2-1 win for the home side. On October 29, 1887, a new building was inaugurated with two changing rooms, a washroom and a conference room. The cost of construction at the time was £ 80 .
In 1920 the club bought some 12,000 square meters east of the old venue for £ 3,500 . On the building site, the club had a playing field built with a cinder track and spectator stands on the north, east and west sides. In the early 1920s, the stadium was given a wooden grandstand with 16,000 seats. At the same time, the stadium was also closed for a month after the referee was jostled and jailed in a game against St. Johnstone FC . From 1932 to 1951, East End Park was also used for greyhound races in irregular order . The northern standing room was given a roof in 1934 and the east stand was renovated. On November 13, 1948, the radio broadcast a game from East End Park for the first time . The game Dunfermline against FC East Stirlingshire ended 5-2. In 1951, breakwaters were installed in the stadium for the first time in the stands . The north tier was given a pent roof in 1957 .
The first live television broadcast from East End Park took place on December 13, 1958 with the encounter between Dunfermline and Dundee United , which made the Pars 2-1 victorious. In 1959, the venue was given a floodlight system for £ 12,000 , which was inaugurated with a 3-4 win over Sheffield United . The last game in front of the old grandstand took place on March 24, 1962 between the Pars and FC Kilmarnock (2-0). The construction then made way for a new main grandstand. About five months later on August 15, the £ 65,000 spectator rank opened with the game in the Scottish FA Cup Dunfermline against FC Kilmarnock; the game ended in a 3-3 draw. Between 1965 and 1967 the roofing of the Main Stand was extended and later connected to the roof of the standing grandstand in the west. Now three of the four tiers were provided with a roof. The attendance record was set on April 30, 1968 with 27,816 visitors during a game against Celtic Glasgow . In the summer of 1987, the west stand at the entrances was given turnstile systems and new seats were installed on the main stand . The guest rank in the east was completely rebuilt in the summer of 1989 with turnstiles at entrances and exits. At that time, the stadium held almost 20,000 visitors.
From the summer of 1997, extensive reconstructions of the stands in East End Park began . The standing room on the north tier gave way to seats; the main stand has been renovated and has a new entrance hall and a gym . In September / October 1997 the erection of the first two masts of the new floodlight system started; the first game under the new floodlights on November 1, the Pars lost against Celtic Glasgow 2-0. The stadium had to make do with the two masts until the end of the season. The back gates in the east and west disappeared in the summer of 1998 and were replaced by grandstands.
On December 12, 1998, the West Stand was named after former Dunfermline player Norrie McCathie . The defender played almost 500 games for the Pars between 1981 and 1996 . He and his girlfriend, Amanda Burns, were killed at home on January 8, 1996 from carbon monoxide poisoning .
Construction work was completed on August 9, 2000, and East End Park had 12,500 seats in the four covered tiers. The opening match between Dunfermline Athletic and Arsenal London took place, which ended with a 3-0 win for the Gunners from London. In the summer of 2001, the club had turf heating installed under the pitch . A year later, the main stand was equipped with a sports bar and conference and event rooms. In August / September 2003, as part of an attempt by UEFA , artificial turf was laid in the stadium. After a vote in 2005 among the clubs of the Scottish Premier League , it was 3: 9 votes against the artificial turf in the Scottish Premier League .
Visitor record and average attendance
For a game between Dunfermline Athletic and Celtic Glasgow found on April 30, 1968 a record crowd of 27,816 spectators in East End Park.
- 2014/15: 2,523 ( Scottish League One )
- 2015/16: 3,497 (Scottish League One)
- 2016/17: 4,438 ( Scottish Championship )
Grandstands
- Main Stand - South, main stand
- North Stand - North, opposite stand
- Norrie McCathie Booth - West, Back Gate
- East Stand - East, back gate, guest area
Web links
- Stadium on the club's website ( Memento from July 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- footballgroundguide.com: Stadium description (English)
- stadiumdb.com: East End Park (English)
- stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
Individual evidence
- ↑ spfl.co.uk: stadium capacity (English)
- ↑ independent.co.uk: Police investigate death of Scottish football stalwart article from January 10, 1996 (English)
- ↑ parsdatabase.co.uk: The Stadium - East End Park (English)
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Dunfermline lose SPL pitch vote article from March 10, 2005 (English)
- ↑ stadiumdb.com: record attendance
- ↑ footballgroundguide.com: Record attendance and average attendance (English)