Elland Road

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Elland Road Football Stadium
View of Elland Road (December 2015)
View of Elland Road (December 2015)
Earlier names

The Old Peacock Ground

Data
place Elland Road Leeds LS11 0ES, United Kingdom
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Coordinates 53 ° 46 '40 "  N , 1 ° 34' 19"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 46 '40 "  N , 1 ° 34' 19"  W.
owner Teak Trading Corporation Ltd.
operator Leeds United
start of building 1897
opening 1897
First game 23 April 1898
Hunslet 1-0 Harrogate (football)
Renovations 1920s, 1953, 1971, 1994, 2006, 2011
Extensions 1905, 1920s, 1957, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1989, 1991, 1994
surface Natural grass
capacity 37,890 seats
playing area 105 × 68 m
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The Elland Road is a football stadium in the English city of Leeds , metropolitan county of West Yorkshire . The venue in the southern borough of Beeston is now home to Leeds United football club . The four covered tiers offer 37,890 seats.

history

1897–1904 - The Old Peacock Ground becomes Elland Road

In 1897, the bought Rugby League -Verein Holbeck Rugby Club from the Northern Union the property at Elland Road from the brewery Bentley's Brewery for 1100  £ on condition to use it for at least seven years as a sports field. At that time it was still called The Old Peacock Ground ; after the Old Peacock Pub, which still exists today . The previous owner Bentley's Brewery took care of the catering . The Holbeck Rugby Club managed to build a grandstand for the new season and the location became known as Elland Road. At that time rugby was still the dominant sport in West Riding ; it didn’t take long before the first soccer game took place in the stadium. The venue was on April 23, 1898 the venue for the final of the West Yorkshire Cup . In front of 3,400 spectators, Hunslet and Harrogate played against each other (1-0). In the 1902/03 season, the Leeds Woodville football club from the Leeds League also used Elland Road.

1904–1919 - Football takes over the stadium

In 1904 the Holbeck Rugby Club was dissolved and the newly formed Leeds City football club rented the stadium on October 13, 1904 for £ 75 a year. There was an option in March 1905 to buy the venue for £ 5,000; later the offer was reduced to £ 4,500. City played its first game on Elland Road two days after signing the contract . In a friendly against Hull City , they lost 2-0. After the end of the first season in the Football League , the stadium received a new west stand. The covered tier offered 5,000 seats and cost £ 1,050. The audience numbers increased quickly. At the local derby between Leeds City and Bradford City on December 30, 1905, at least 22,500 spectators crowded the stands. This generated City viewing revenue of £ 487.

The club founded a committee that dealt with the stadium and its further expansion. In February 1906 bought Leeds City from the Monk's Bridge Iron Company for £ 420 a piece of land behind the North Stand with 3,961  square yard (3,312  m 2 ) area. A new main grandstand with 4,000 seats was built on the piece of land. Before the grandstand was built, the playing field was turned 90 °. Around 1.5 kilometers of steel girders were built into the £ 3,000 tier. Inside there were new changing rooms for players and referees as well as a garage. Furthermore, it was established a training ground, and the game received a drainage so that water could run off better off. On November 17, 1906, the new building was inaugurated by Lord Mayor Joseph Hepworth before a game against Chelsea . On March 26, 1910, the stadium in Leeds was the first venue for a semi-final game in the FA Cup between Barnsley FC and Everton FC (0-0); these games took place from 1892 to the 2000s in a neutral place. The game drew around 36,000 fans to the crowded Elland Road.

Leeds City ran into financial distress in 1912 after a bank called for an outstanding payment of £ 7,000. The association was insolvent and an insolvency administrator was appointed. The situation did not change until August 1914, when an association of athletes from Leeds took over Elland Road. The offer of £ 1,000 and an annual rent of £ 250 to Leeds City was made; which the club accepted. In the same year the First World War began and the stadium served as an army training camp and target practice area at that time. After the war, the Football League began playing again in the 1919/20 season. It was during this period that financial irregularities surfaced at Leeds City; the club had paid its players money during the war despite a ban. The club was banned from the Football League during the season and subsequently disbanded. On October 17, 1919, Leeds City players and equipment such as balls, goals and goal nets were auctioned to other clubs for a total of £ 10,150. Elland Road also went under the hammer. Some business people wanted to buy the facility and turn it into a brick factory because there was clay in the ground of the stadium property . This prevented amateur footballers who use the stadium and took over until Leeds United was founded.

1919 - Leeds United moves to Elland Road

Leeds United's first season team 1920-21

In the autumn of 1919, Leeds United, the successor to Leeds City, was founded. The Whites played their first game in the Football League First Division on August 28, 1920 against Port Vale and lost 2-0 goals. With the new club, the expansion of Elland Road continued in the 1920s. The Elland Road Terrace standing room in the south, known as the Scratching Shed , was given a wooden barrel roof . In the east, the covered standing room called Lowfields Stand was built in the late 1920s . A large standing room was built on the north side, named The Kop .

After the extensive construction work in the 1920s, little happened in the 1930s and 1940s, also because of the Second World War . On December 27, 1932, 56,796 fans gathered at the venue for a game against Arsenal . This was a new attendance record that was to last for around 35 years. Elland Road was selected in 1938 to host the final of the Rugby Football League Championship between the Hunslet Rugby League Club and the Leeds Rugby League Football Club . The game would have been intended for the Belle Vue rugby stadium in Wakefield , but since both final opponents came from Leeds, Elland Road was the venue. The final on April 30th saw 54,112 viewers and the Hawks won the title 8-2. It was the best-attended rugby league game of all time at the time.

In April 1950, a fire destroyed the main stand at Leeds Road Stadium , home of Huddersfield Town . Huddersfield avoided the last games of the season in the approximately 25  km away stadium in Leeds. In 1953 the sports facility received a floodlight system worth £ 7,000; for the first floodlight show, Hibernian Edinburgh was a guest on November 9th of that year in front of around 31,500 visitors. Leeds won the game 4-1 and John Charles scored two goals. Three years later a fire broke out on Elland Road due to an electrical fault. In the early morning hours of September 18, 1956, a fire devastated the West Stand. The heat was so great that a large part of the field was scorched. The grandstand could no longer be saved. The wooden roof collapsed before the fire brigade arrived. Inside the fire destroyed u. a. Offices, club documents, medical equipment, the changing rooms, player equipment, the press box and the boardrooms. The damage amounted to around £ 100,000 and exceeded the sum insured. After a meeting of the board of directors, it was decided to build a new grandstand with the financial support of Leeds City Council. The new building was ready for use for the 1957/58 season . It cost £ 180,000 and offered 4,000 seats and 6,000 standing space for visitors. Two years after the grandstand opened, another fire broke out after a game in the Reserve League Central League against Preston North End . This time the fire was discovered early and club employees were able to extinguish the flames without causing any major damage.

1960s - successes and records

In 1961 the player Don Revie also took over the coaching office at Leeds, and the club's most successful period began. He led Leeds United - after relegation in 1960 - back to the Football League First Division in 1964 . By 1974 Revie had won seven competitions with United (two championships in the Football League First Division, two times fair cup winners, one win in the FA Cup , one win in the League Cup and one win in the Charity Shield ) and led the Whites to the top positions in the league. On March 20, 1965, a football match was televised for the first time from Elland Road. In the league game, the received Whites the Everton and won with 4: 1 gates. With the successes, the audience interest also increased. In a replay of the 5th round in the FA Cup on March 15, 1967 met at Elland Road United and Sunderland AFC . This game was only four days after the first meeting in Roker Park from Sunderland set. Around 5,000 too many cards were sold; so there was a great rush on the match day. Even at the beginning of the game, thousands of visitors crowded in front of the gates. Some climbed the roof of the stands to watch the game. Five minutes after kick-off, a barrier broke and the fans flocked to the Lowfields stand in the east. The game was interrupted for 15 minutes as around 1,000 fans fled onto the field. 32 people had to be taken to the hospital, but no one was seriously injured. Ultimately, the game ended in a 1-1 draw and a new attendance record was set with 57,892 spectators. A year later, the Whites faced the Glasgow Rangers in the quarter-finals of the Exhibition Cities Cup . The game saw 50,498 fans; this meant a record for a European Cup game.

The northern part of Spion Kop, built in the 1920s, began being demolished in April 1968, shortly after the Whites won their first league cup title under Revie. The construction was also the beginning of several construction phases until the mid-1970s. The grandstand gave way to the covered new building called Gelderd End with standing room for 13,000, which was built in just six weeks for £ 250,000. When completed, there was a 60- foot gap  between the pitch and the spectators. In 1970 the space in between was planted with greenery and the playing field moved 30 feet (9.14 meters) north towards the new range. In the same year the corner between the Gelderd End and the West Stand was closed. In the lower area there was standing room; in the upper section there were 1,064 seats. The cost of construction soared; the corner of the stadium, at £ 200,000, cost almost as much as the new back gate to the north. A year later, part of the grandstand was added to the corner of the stadium in the northeast. The tier had 1,779 seats upstairs and standing room downstairs.

1970s - construction halt due to lack of money

In 1974, Don Revie ended his second league title and 13 years as a coach at Leeds United. He took over the English national football team until 1977 . Also in 1974, the renovation continued with the demolition of the old Scratching Shed in the south. The modern cantilever grandstand behind the gate had 3,500 seats in the upper tier and standing room for 4,000 in the lower tier; the cost of construction was £ 500,000. In the 1970s, turf heating was installed under the playing field . The pipelines have a total length of 59  miles (over 95 kilometers). The old floodlights from the 1950s have been replaced by a modern lighting system for £ 150,000. At first the system consisted of three masts; the fourth light mast followed in 1977. The masts were each equipped with 55 spotlights and towered 260 feet (79.2 meters) into the sky. These were the tallest floodlight masts in Europe. The high lighting system also attracted many starlings , who swarmed over the stadium in autumn. On the evening game days during the week, both visitors and parked cars were hit by bird droppings .

The gap began to be closed in the southeast corner between South Stand and Lowfields Stand. For this part of the old roof had to be removed and the concrete foundations were placed behind the standing room. Until then the cost was £ 500,000 and no further construction was possible due to lack of money. Over time, the concrete pillars and foundations weathered; the steel girders rusted away. The construction site was to lie fallow until the 1990s . In the late 1970s, Elland Road and Leeds fans made a name for themselves. In a game in the third round of the 1978 FA Cup against Manchester City , visitors to the stadium stormed the lawn and the police had to intervene. The FA decided that Leeds United would have to play their FA Cup games away from their opponents for the next three years. Two more incidents occurred in 1979. In one game, again against Manchester City, missiles were fired from the South Stand onto the field; but the rank was blocked for the audience. Objects were thrown onto the pitch against Nottingham Forest . This resulted in the Kop being suspended for two games. At that time, Elland Road held 43,900 spectators, with 19,626 seats available.

1980s - sale and big plans

After 16 years in the first division , Leeds United had to make their way to the second division in 1982 . The next change in the stadium concerned the South Stand in 1983. The stand was equipped with boxes . Two years later, the stadium capacity fell to 39,243 seats due to new safety regulations. The standing areas of the West Stand and the Lowfields Stand were completely furnished with seats. This met with massive protests from fans of the Whites and the seats were removed again. In the 1980s, United shared the stadium with rugby league club Hunslet Hawks . The stadium was home to Bradford City for three games in 1985 . After the Valley Parade fire disaster , they had to play their home games in stadiums of neighboring clubs; until the Valley Parade was operational again after around 19 months. Due to relegation and falling audience numbers, Leeds United was heavily in debt in 1985 and Leeds City Council took over Elland Road for £ 2.5 million.

City Council and United agreed to use the stadium for 125 years; an annual rent of £ 160,000 and 20 percent of the association's annual income. After the sale, extensive plans were made to convert the venue. The plans included e.g. B. an underground parking garage under the training grounds or a cinema , an ice rink and a water park . Another building project saw the construction of the Lowfields stand; which should be connected to a multi-purpose hall . A shopping center and leisure facilities were also planned. However, these plans thwarted rising construction costs, the poor economic situation and the requirements of the Taylor Report after the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. Under these circumstances, Leeds City Council and Leeds United agreed on a more cost-effective remodeling plan.

1990s - Elland Road is renewed

With the return to the top English league in 1990, the redesign of Elland Road began; thus £ 750,000 was invested in safety equipment. The stadium usage agreement negotiated six years earlier had to be renegotiated again in 1991. As a result of the promotion, the payment rose to an estimated £ 1 million in the 1990/91 season , which the promoted team finished in fourth place. They agreed on a higher basic rent; instead, the share of the association's income fell. The south-east corner was also completed in 1991 after a construction freeze of around 17 years. The 1,710-seat structure was built on the old concrete foundations for £ 800,000. Because of its yellow plastic seats , it got the nickname Cheese Wedge ( German  cheese corner ). Guest fans will find their places on it; If the need arises, the entire South Stand is available to guests. In 1992 a conference center and function rooms for banquets , weddings and other occasions were built behind the West Stand for £ 1.3 million . The opening took place in April of that year.

The statue of Billy Bremner , who died in 1997, in front of the East Stand

With the impact of the Taylor Report , the stadium capacity dropped to 32,073 spectators. Given the 22,000 season ticket holders and 30,000 association members with the right of first refusal; only a small portion of the cards remained for free sale. Understandably, this caused displeasure among fans. An extension of Elland Road was necessary in order to meet the audience's interest and to be able to host other events such as semi-finals in the FA Cup or rugby league games . In addition, the 1996 European Football Championship took place in England and the stadium in Leeds was a possible venue. The City Council and United agreed on the expansion; the aim was to expand to at least 40,000 places. Unlike originally planned, the grandstand was built in a more cost-effective variant. The £ 5.5 million new build received £ 2 million from the Football Trust and £ 1.5 million from the Ground Development Fund . There was still £ 2 million short of construction costs. Since the Leeds City Council did not want to spend taxpayers' money , the club turned to its fans in January 1992. Club supporters were offered £ 500 shares with special perks for buyers. For £ 700 you could get a discounted season ticket for seven years. After initial concerns, the idea turned out to be a complete success. Within a few weeks, the association sold 5,200 shares and raised enough money to build the East Stand.

In May 1992, shortly after winning the third championship , construction began on the new main grandstand. The East Stand was built in several stages. The lower section was completed in February 1993; the upper part in August of the same year. On the two-story tier there are 10,000 seats in the lower tier and 7,000 seats in the upper tier. The expansion of the grandstand with 25 VIP boxes cost around £ 1 million and ran until January 1994. Now the home of the Whites offered 42,640 seats; of which 9,300 were standing room on the north tier. This changed in 1994. As a result of the Taylor Report, the Gelderd End standing room in the north was equipped with around 7,000 seats and the interior was completely renewed; This made Elland Road a pure seating stadium. The stadium now had 39,704 seats - which was less than the target of 40,000, but was sufficient for a venue for the 1996 European Football Championship. In honor of former player and coach Don Revie, who died in 1989, the grandstand was named after him that summer. In October of that year the rank was inaugurated by the club's president, the Earl of Harewood and the widow E. Revie.

After 15 years, a semi-final of the FA Cup made another stop in Elland Road in 1995 . The match on March 31 between Everton FC and Tottenham Hotspur (4-1) brought in record revenues of £ 1,006,000. In 1996 the stadium in Leeds was one of eight venues for the European Football Championship . It hosted Group 2 games with teams from Spain , France , Romania and Bulgaria . For the European Championship tournament, the parking spaces were enlarged and the number of bus stops increased. On December 7, 1997, the former player Billy Bremner died . The midfielder and long-time team captain had played 587 games for United from 1959 to 1976 , scoring 90 goals; from 1985 to 1988 he had coached the club. In his honor, a statue was placed in front of the south-east corner of the stadium. At the end of 1997, plans were presented to expand the stadium to 46,000 seats. For this purpose, the John Charles stand opposite the main grandstand was to be fitted out on three floors with 12,000 seats. In addition, there would have been a multi-purpose hall with 15,000 seats behind the tier. The arena should be used for basketball, ice hockey, concerts and other events. Construction should be completed by the end of 1999 and cost around £ 11.3 million. The ice hockey team would be called Leeds Lasers . The project was then dropped. In 1998 Elland Road changed hands: the Leeds Sporting Company bought the venue from Leeds City Council for £ 10 million.

West Yorkshire Police control room in the stadium

2000s - thoughts of emigration

At the beginning of the decade, Leeds United returned to the top of Europe. The Whites reached the 2000 UEFA Cup semi - finals but lost to Galatasaray Istanbul . The following year the club in the semifinals of failed UEFA Champions League at Valencia . In the Premier League game against Newcastle United on December 22, 2001, a new visitor record was set with 40,287 spectators since the conversion into a purely seated stadium. In the same year club president Peter Ridsdale presented plans for the construction of a new stadium with 50,000 seats in Skelton . In a survey conducted by the association, shareholders and season ticket holders were given the option of building a new stadium or renovating it and expanding the existing stadium. Of 28,250 letters sent, 18,577 letters were returned, with 16,276 respondents (87.6%) voting in favor of a new building. However, these plans disappeared back into the drawer due to financial problems.

Due to the success in the European Cup, President Ridsdale planned the high television money for the next season in the Champions League in the financial calculation. In addition, the association took out large loans. United missed in the 2000/01 season but by one point participation in the top European league, which had fatal consequences for the club. Central defender Rio Ferdinand was sold to Manchester United for £ 30m to pay off debt . With Jonathan Woodgate , another central defender to has been Newcastle United sold for £ 9 million. A sporting decline followed; with relegation from the Premier League in 2004 , the Leeds football club threatened to end. In 2007 United moved from the Football League Championship to Football League One . Almost all of the players had to be sold or given up to get them off the payroll. On 21 February 2004, the former succumbed United poker players John Charles his cancer . In memory of him, the opposite stand in the west was named after the striker . The training site was sold for £ 4.2 million that fall. In October 2004, Leeds United sold the stadium in a sale-lease-back deal to the leasing company Teak Trading Corporation Ltd. ; the association has a 25-year repurchase right if it is financially able to do so.

A renovation of the south stand followed in the summer of 2006. For the first games, the tier was closed until the work was completed. These included u. a. the renewal of the boxes and the outer facade. A mezzanine was added to the office area . The Billy's Bar is named after Billy Bremner. Due to financial irregularities Leeds United Football League Championship 2007 was punished with ten minus points and rose from bottom of the table in the third-rate Football League One . During the 2009/10 season, a large video screen was installed in the southwest corner, sponsored by the Ringways Motor Group . On December 16, 2009, the possible venues for the English application for the 2018 World Cup were announced. The Revie stand and the John Charles stand were to be rebuilt for the tournament and the stadium would then offer 50,000 seats. The expansion can also be seen in view of the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup , where Elland Road was one of the twelve venues. In December 2010, however, the world football association FIFA awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia. After two just failed attempts, the Whites were able to celebrate their return to the second division in 2010.

Elland Road in 2010

2010s - expansion for the future

Regardless of the failed World Cup application, the first phase of renovation work on the East stand began in March 2011. a. 20 additional boxes. In further construction phases, u. a. an entrance hall, a hotel and a large fan shop and club offices will be added.

Grandstands

East Stand

The East Stand

Capacity: 17,000 seats
The East Stand is the two-story main grandstand on Elland Road. The £ 5.5 million structure was built during the 1992/93 season and replaced the old Lowfields stand . The interior work alone cost £ 1 million and was completed in January 1994. The erection of the grandstand was only possible; after the association offered shares for several hundred pounds and 5,200 of these were sold in a very short time. The soaring grandstand with 25 VIP boxes was the largest cantilevered grandstand in the world when it was completed . The family stand for families is located in the lower part of the grandstand ; after the completion of the South Stand in the 1993/94 season moved to the big rank. In it are u. a. a shopping mall , grocery stores , restaurant, betting shops , cafes and other facilities especially for families. The first phase of renovation of the grandstand started in March 2011.

John Charles Booth

The John Charles booth

Capacity: 11,000 seats
The John Charles stand is to the west on the opposite side of the main stand. The former West Stand has been named after former Leeds player John Charles since March 2004 ; he played 308 games and scored 153 goals for the Whites . The building has 11,000 seats and is the oldest tier on Elland Road. It was completed for the 1957/58 season; after a fire on September 18, 1956 completely burned down the old West Stand. The commentators 'booths, facilities for radio and press journalists, the changing rooms, the players' tunnel and the technical area with the substitute benches are located in the stands. The grandstand was completely rebuilt for the Rugby Union World Cup 2015; similar to the East Stand on the opposite side. The tier became two-story and offers around 12,000 seats.

Revie stand

The Revie stand

Capacity: 7,000 seats
The Revie stand is the back gate in the north. The tier, including the northeast and northwest corners, holds 7,000 visitors. It was originally built in the early 1920s as a large standing room called The Kop and was replaced in 1968 by Gelderd End with standing room for 13,000. In the early 1980s, an electronic scoreboard was installed under the stadium roof. In 1994, as a result of the Taylor Report , the rank was converted into a seated grandstand and Elland Road was turned into a seated stadium. It was named in memory of former player and coach Don Revie Revie Stand . The stadium control room is on the north tier; by which the cameras of the video surveillance system are controlled and monitored. The north stand, as well as the opposite stand, is to be completely rebuilt for the Rugby Union World Cup in 2015 in order to bring the stadium to a total capacity of 50,000 seats.

South Stand

The South Stand

Capacity: 5,000 seats
The South Stand is located in the south of the facility and offers 5,000 seats with the corners in the southeast and southwest. He replaced Elland Road Terrace from the 1920s in 1974 for £ 500,000 ; known by the nickname Scratching Shed . There are 32 boxes on the tier. A large video screen was installed in the southeast corner in the 2009/10 season. The south-east corner had to wait around 17 years for completion due to lack of money. It was built in 1991 on the concrete foundations that were poured at the time. The seating area offers 1,710 seats and is available to guest fans. In contrast to the rest of the stadium, the plastic seats are yellow. This earned her the nickname Cheese Wedge ( German  cheese corner ). If there are a large number of guest fans, the entire South Stand becomes a guest gallery.

Events

Soccer

Despite the long history of Elland Road, only two international matches for the English men's national football team have taken place there. The friendly game on June 8, 1995 against Sweden was the first international match in 22 years, on May 12, 1973 in Liverpool against Northern Ireland (2-1), which was not played at Wembley Stadium and ended in a 3-3 draw. The second friendly game on March 27, 2002 against the Italians (1: 2) was in the demolition and renovation phase of Wembley . In 1996, the city of Leeds and its stadium were one of the eight hosts of Euro 96 . It saw the three games of the Spaniards seeded in Group 2 against Bulgaria , France and Romania . In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Leeds United reached the finals for the Exhibition Cities Cup three times . After losing to Dinamo Zagreb in 1967 ; the Whites won the European title in 1968 and 1971 . As early as 1910, Elland Road hosted the first of nine FA Cup semi-finals , which took place for a long time in a neutral place, up to the currently last semi-finals in 1995.

rugby

After the Holbeck Rugby Club, the first owner of what was then known as The Old Peacock Ground , was dissolved in 1904, the Hunslet Hawks (Rugby League) played their games in the Leeds football stadium in the mid-1980s. The finals of a number of different rugby league competitions have so far been home to Elland Road. The Regal Trophy was played three times (1983, 1986 and 1993) on Elland Road. The finals of 2004 and 2005 of the short-lived tournament of the Tri Nations as well as the first final of the successor Four Nations in 2009 saw their staging in the home of Leeds United. In the club tournament of the World Club Challenge , Elland Road was used four times (2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010) as the final venue.

In 2015 Elland Road was one of the venues for the Rugby Union World Cup .

Concerts

Concert by the Kaiser Chiefs on May 24, 2008

Occasionally the football stadium becomes a concert arena. The first concert was given by the group Queen on May 29, 1982. U2 , Heart , Joan Jett and the Blackhearts , The Teardrop Explodes , The Fall , The Mission , The Pretenders , the Kaiser Chiefs , The Enemy , Kate Nash , Friendly also performed Fires , The Young Knives , The Farm , The La’s or the Happy Mondays . The last artist on Elland Road so far was singer Rod Stewart on June 3, 2011 . Leeds United would like to host three concerts a year at the stadium in the future.

Others

From 1986, the Leeds Cougars ( BAFL ) American football team competed on Elland Road. After a season they left the stadium again because the turf had suffered from the heavy use. In 1987 a Yorkshire GAA Gaelic football game was played between Dublin and Mayo. That same year, 15,000 Jehovah's Witnesses came to the facility for a three-day meeting.

Records

  • Highest number of spectators before the conversion into a seating stadium: 15 Mar. 1967 - 57,892 visitors in the game against AFC Sunderland 1: 1 (repeat game of the 5th round in the FA Cup 1966/67 )
  • Highest number of spectators after the conversion into a seating stadium: 22 Dec. 2001 - 40,287 visitors in the game against Newcastle United 3: 4 ( Premier League 2001/02 )
  • Highest number of spectators in a European Cup game: April 9, 1968 - 50,498 visitors in the game against Glasgow Rangers 2-0 (quarter-final second leg in the Messestädte-Pokal 1967/68 )0

Panorama picture

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Panoramic view from the John Charles booth on Elland Road

literature

  • Simon Inglis: Football Grounds Of Britain. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 1996, ISBN 978-0-00-218426-7 .
  • Paul Harrison: The Elland Road Encyclopedia: AZ of Leeds United FC. Mainstream Publishing, 1994, ISBN 978-1-85158-675-2 .

Web links

Commons : Elland Road  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b footballgroundguide.com: data on the stadium (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Simon Inglis: Football Grounds Of Britain , p. 199
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n wafll.com: Elland Road - A Brief History (English)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Simon Inglis: Football Grounds Of Britain , p. 200
  5. ↑ mightyleeds.co.uk: The Leeds City Scandal (English)
  6. ↑ thisisthebarmyarmy.co.uk: History of Huddersfield Town (English)
  7. ↑ 1.bp.blogspot.com: picture of the burned down West booth
  8. ↑ mightyleeds.co.uk: Multi-part biography of Don Revie (English)
  9. ↑ Simon Inglis: Football Grounds Of Britain , p. 201
  10. ↑ a b c d Simon Inglis: Football Grounds Of Britain , p. 202
  11. ↑ a b c Simon Inglis: Football Grounds Of Britain , p. 203
  12. ↑ Simon Inglis: Football Grounds Of Britain , p. 204
  13. ↑ 11freunde.de: Portrait of Billy Bremner Article from December 17, 2011
  14. ↑ img.photobucket.com: picture of the 1997 construction project (English)
  15. ↑ img.photobucket.com: picture of the 1997 construction project (English)
  16. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Leeds wants to build a new stadium Article dated September 7, 2001
  17. ↑ leedsunited.com: Billy's Bar on the Leeds United homepage ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leedsunited.com
  18. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Announcement of the possible venues for the 2018 World Cup (English)
  19. ↑ leedsunited.com: Articles with pictures of the stadium after reconstruction (English)
  20. ↑ yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk: Conversion of Elland Road for the 2018 World Cup (English)
  21. ↑ thesquareball.net: Reconstruction of the East stand in pictures ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article from March 23, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thesquareball.net
  22. ↑ pcpki.com: Queen concert on Elland Road (English)
  23. ↑ leedsunited.com: Rod Stewart on Elland Road ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article dated February 4, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leedsunited.com
  24. ↑ yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk: Leeds United wants to have more concert in the stadium Article from April 21, 2011 (English)
  25. ↑ members.multimania.co.uk: Stadium history ( memento of the original from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / members.multimania.co.uk
  26. ↑ spanishleeds.blogspot.com: Number of visitors Leeds United against Glasgow Rangers ( Memento from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)