Mile End Ground

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Mile End Ground
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place MaltaMalta Pietà , Malta
Coordinates 35 ° 53 '13.8 "  N , 14 ° 29' 32.7"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 53 '13.8 "  N , 14 ° 29' 32.7"  E
opening January 12, 1912
First game King's Own Malta Regiment vs Northamptonshire Regiment (3-1)
surface Natural grass
capacity 1,000 seats
Events

Mile End Ground , also Mile End Sporting Ground , was a stadium in the Maltese town of Pietà , which was the most important football stadium in Malta between 1912 and 1922 .

prehistory

When it was first introduced in Malta in the 1880s, the sport of football was initially played in the island's capital Valletta on a field called the Blue Ditch at the Porte des Bombes . A little later, the Floriana Parade Ground was built in the suburb of Floriana west of Valletta, another important football field. When the Maltese League was introduced in the 1909/10 season, the games were played on the Lyceum Ground in Marsa , in the 1910/11 season on the National Ground and in 1911/12 on the Athletic Ground .

history

Because all previously used playgrounds were no longer able to cope with the increasing interest of the audience, the Mile End Ground was opened in the first days of 1912. The inaugural game was played on January 12, 1912 between the teams of the King's Own Malta Regiment and the Northamptonshire Regiment.

The Mile End Ground served from 1912/13 to 1921/22 as the venue for most of the island nation's first division football matches and was replaced in this capacity with the opening of the Empire Sports Ground in November 1922. Before its later demolition, the Mile End Ground served as a venue for lower-class league and cup games until the late 1930s.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carmel Baldacchino: Goals, Cups and Tears - A History of Maltese Football. Volume 1: 1886-1919: The Golden Age of Maltese Football. Bugelli Publications, Malta 1989, pp. 220f.
  2. ^ Carmel Baldacchino: Goals, Cups and Tears - A History of Maltese Football. Volume 2: 1919-1934: The Great Amateur Era. Bugelli Publications, Malta 1990, p. 76
  3. ^ Carmel Baldacchino: Goals, Cups and Tears - A History of Maltese Football. Volume 1: 1886-1919: The Golden Age of Maltese Football. Bugelli Publications, Malta 1989, p. 220
  4. ^ Carmel Baldacchino: Goals, Cups and Tears - A History of Maltese Football. Volume 2: 1919-1934: The Great Amateur Era. Bugelli Publications, Malta 1990, p. 58
  5. ^ Carmel Baldacchino: Goals, Cups and Tears - A History of Maltese Football. Volume 3: 1934-1944: Glory and Upheaval. Bugelli Publications, Malta 1991