St. James' Park

This article covers the Newcastle football stadium. The Royal Park in London is located under St. James's Park . The Exeter City Club stadium is located under St. James' Park (Exeter) .

St. James' Park
Southwest corner of St James' Park (May 2009)
Earlier names
St. James' Park (1892–2009, 2010–2011) Sportsdirect.com@StJames'Park (2009) Sports Direct Arena (2011–2012)
Data
place	Barrack Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4ST, United Kingdom
Coordinates	54 ° 58 '32 "  N , 1 ° 37' 17.9"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 58 '32 "  N , 1 ° 37' 17.9"  W.
owner	Mike Ashley
opening	1892
Renovations	1998-2000
surface	Natural grass
architect	TTH Architects
capacity	52,405 seats
playing area	105 m × 68 m
Societies)
Newcastle United (since 1892) Newcastle West End (1886-1892)
Events
European Football Championship 1996 Olympic football tournament 2012 Rugby Union World Cup 2015 Magic Weekend (2015-2018, 2020, Super League ) Final of the European Rugby Champions Cup 2018/19 Rugby League World Cup 2021

The St James' Park is a football stadium in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne , United Kingdom . It is the home ground of the Newcastle United football club . It is the oldest (1892) and largest football stadium in North East England . The system has a capacity of 52,405 spectators who can be seated on covered seating.

history

St. James' Park is a pure football stadium, which means that the tiers begin directly on the field without an intermediate athletics facility. It is considered to be one of the most impressive British stadiums ever, as two stands are very high and the other two, relatively low stands are more than twice as high. These two grandstands have existed since 2002. Before that, all grandstands were the same height. Before the expansion, the stadium held around 36,000 spectators.

St. James' Park was one of the eight stadiums for the 1996 European Football Championship in England. During the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , seven preliminary round and two quarter-finals of the Olympic football tournament took place here. It was also the venue for several preliminary round matches of the Rugby Union World Cup in 2015 .

On April 3, 2017, it was announced that St. James' Park was selected for the final of the European Rugby Champions Cup 2018/19 . On May 11, 2019, Leinster Rugby from Ireland and the English team of the Saracens faced each other in St. James' Park .

As the Newcastle-based Evening Chronicle reported in mid-April 2019, the club has been working on plans to expand St. James' Park to 70,000 seats for five years. For this it would be u. a. necessary to turn the playing field by 90 ° . But first an investor would have to be found for the expansion.

St. James' Park is planned to be one of 21 venues for the Rugby League World Cup 2021 , which for the first time will host tournaments for men, women and wheelchair users simultaneously. Newcastle hosts the men's opening game and opening ceremony.

In 2020 the Magic Weekend of the Super League will be held again in the Newcastle stadium after 2015 to 2018. Organized by the English Association of Rugby Football League since 2007, the event provides for a complete game day over a weekend in a stadium. In 2016, the record number of spectators was set with 68,276 visitors on Saturday and Sunday. In May 2019, the Anfield in Liverpool was the venue for the games.

Naming

From 1892 to 2009, the stadium continuously St James' Park was called before the club owners of Newcastle United Mike Ashley the stadium temporarily after his company Sports Direct in Sportsdirect.com@StJames'Park renamed. The aim of this renaming, for which there was no separate financial consideration, was to draw attention to the free naming rights in order to be able to sell it at a profit. After some time, however, the name change was reversed. However, a name sponsor could not be found. In November 2011, Ashley repeated this action. This time the stadium was renamed Sports Direct Arena . Around eleven months later, the loan company Wonga acquired the naming rights to the stadium. However, Wonga decided not to name the stadium after its own company name and instead gave the stadium back the old name of St. James' Park.

gallery

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  St. James' Park in late July 1963

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  The match between Bulgaria and Romania (1-0) during the 1996 European Football Championship

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  Aerial photo from 2004

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  St. James' Park in 2006 or 2007

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The facade of the northwest corner (August 2016)

See also

• List of the largest football stadiums in the world

Web links

Commons : St James' Park  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Stadium history , nufc.co.uk (English)
• Official website London 2012 ( Memento of January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Stadium guide (English)
• Detailed picture gallery , stadionwelt.de
• Visitor report from 2003 , groundhopping.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadium on the website of the architects ( Memento from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
2. ^ Newcastle United - St James' Park. In: footballgroundguide.com. Accessed April 22, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Football Schedule. ( PDF ) In: media.ticketmaster.com. London 2012, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
4. ^ Paul Rees: European rugby finals to be staged in Bilbao in 2018 and Newcastle in 2019. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , April 3, 2017, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
5. ^ Robert Kitson: Leinster to face Saracens in Champions Cup final after suffocating Toulouse. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , April 21, 2019, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Mark Douglas: Revealed: The ingenious plan to turn St James' Park into a 70,000 stadium seen by Amanda Staveley. In: chroniclelive.co.uk. Evening Chronicle, April 16, 2019, accessed April 22, 2019 . 
7. ↑ 2021 Rugby League World Cup: Emirates Stadium among host venues but Wigan misses out. In: bbc.com. BBC , January 29, 2019, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Rugby top event back in Newcastle. In: stadionwelt.de. October 9, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
9. ^ Newcastle with Naming Right Showcase. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on April 23, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Sponsor buys naming rights and gives stadium old names. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on April 23, 2019 .