Tannadice Park

Tannadice Park
The East Stand of Tannadice Park
Earlier names
Clepington Park (1882-1909)
Data
place	Dundee , Scotland
Coordinates	56 ° 28 '28.9 "  N , 2 ° 58' 8.3"  W Coordinates: 56 ° 28 '28.9 "  N , 2 ° 58' 8.3"  W.
owner	Dundee United
opening	1882
Renovations	1909, 1967, 1992-1997
surface	Natural grass
capacity	14,229 seats
playing area	100.6 × 65.8 m
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Dundee United (since 1909)

The Tannadice Park is a football stadium in the Scottish Dundee . The 14,229 capacity stadium is located on Tannadice Street, which gives the facility its name. It has been the home of the Dundee United football club since 1909 . The venue of city rivals FC Dundee , Dens Park , is just 300 meters from Tannadice Park.

history

The area of ​​what is now the stadium was already in use at the end of the 1870s by the football club East End FC, which later became a founding member of Dundee FC, under the name Clepington Park . After the founding of Dundee United, a new stadium was built on this site and opened in 1909. Dundee United's first game at Tannadice Park was against Hibernian Edinburgh on August 18, 1909 . The 7,000 spectators saw a 1-1 draw. The stadium underwent extensive renovations between 1992 and 1997.

Average audience

The visitor record comes from the second round of the Messestädte-Pokal in 1966/67 . 28,000 spectators gathered in Tannadice Park on November 16, 1966 for the game against CF Barcelona .

• 2011/12 : 7,481 ( Scottish Premier League )
• 2012/13 : 7,547 ( Scottish Premier League )
• 2013/14 : 7,599 ( Scottish Premiership )

Grandstands

• Jerry Kerr Booth: Main Stand , South
• George Fox Stand: Opposite Stand , North
• Eddie Thompson Booth: Back Gate, East
• West Stand (The Shed): Back gate, West

gallery

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  Site plan of Tannadice Park (right) and Dens Park (left)

• 

  The Tannadice Park 2007

and display information about the image

Interior panorama (2011)

Web links

Commons : Tannadice Park  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• footballgroundguide.com: Stadium Guide (English)
• stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
• groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ spfl.co.uk: stadium capacity (English)
2. ↑ dufc.co: History of Dundee United on the homepage (English)
3. ↑ footballgroundguide.com: average attendance and visitor record ( memento of the original from March 29, 2013 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. (English)