National Hockey Stadium
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 Milton Keynes , England
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 2 ′ 16.5 " N , 0 ° 46 ′ 30" W |
| operator | England hockey |
| start of building | 1995 |
| opening | 1995 |
| Renovations | 2003 |
| demolition | December 17, 2009 - March 2010 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 8,824 seats |
| playing area | 100 × 64 m |
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The National Hockey Stadium was a sports facility in Milton Keynes , England . Opened in 1995, the facility initially served as a hockey stadium and was home to the Milton Keynes Dons football club between 2003 and 2007 (until 2004 Wimbledon FC).
The stadium was designed and built in 1995 by the England Hockey Association as a new national field hockey stadium with artificial turf . When the football club FC Wimbledon was planning to move from London to Milton Keynes, it was converted into a football stadium in 2003, with the artificial turf being converted into natural grass and the audience capacity being expanded from around 4,000 to almost 9,000. From the 2003/04 season the National Hockey Stadium was home to Wimbledon FC, which was renamed Milton Keynes Dons in 2004. The English Hockey Association remained the administrator of the stadium.
After the new stadium: mk was built for the football club in Denbigh North , where it moved in in mid-2007, the association closed the National Hockey Stadium as it was no longer able to operate profitably. The building was demolished between December 17, 2009 and March 2010. In its place, the new headquarters of the railway company Network Rail was built. In the summer of 2012 the new building called Quadrant: MK was opened.
Web links
- groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2003
- fussballtempel.net: picture gallery
- mkweb.co.uk: aerial view of the stadium
Individual evidence
- ↑ fussballtempel.net: List of English stadiums ( memento of the original from August 11, 2010 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.
- ↑ miltonkeynes.openguides.org: Report on the stadium ( Memento of July 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: Network Rail's new Milton Keynes HQ unveiled (English) article from May 31, 2012
- ↑ networkrail.co.uk: The Quadrant: MK on the Network Rail homepage (English)
