Tannadice Park
Tannadice Park | |
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The East Stand of Tannadice Park | |
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Clepington Park (1882-1909) |
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place | Dundee , Scotland |
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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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
Web links
- footballgroundguide.com: Stadium Guide (English)
- stadionwelt.de: picture gallery
- groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ spfl.co.uk: stadium capacity (English)
- ↑ dufc.co: History of Dundee United on the homepage (English)
- ↑ 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)