Withdean Stadium
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| place | 44 North Road Brighton , East Sussex BN1 1YR, United Kingdom
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 51 '7.9 " N , 0 ° 9' 33.4" W |
| owner | City of Brighton |
| opening | 1936 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 8,850 seats |
| playing area | 105 × 68 m |
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The Withdean Stadium is a football stadium with athletics track in the English city of Brighton , United Kingdom . It has a capacity of 8,850 spectators and served as the home ground of the Brighton & Hove Albion football club from 1999 to 2011.
history
The Withdean Stadium in Brighton, an English town on the English Channel coast in East Sussex , was built in 1936 and opened that same year. At first it was exclusively from Brighton & Hove Athletics Club, an athletics club from Brighton and Hove , that is, from the city of Brighton and its neighboring town of Hove . Until 2011 it was also used by the football club Brighton & Hove Albion as a venue for home games. However, the club, which currently plays in the Premier League , only moved to Withdean Stadium in 1999, as the stadium previously used by the club, the Goldstone Ground , was sold and demolished in 1997. Withdean Stadium is one of the most unpopular stadiums in the UK , according to a 2004 survey by the Observer .
Brighton & Hove Albion had been planning to build a new stadium for a long time; after the old 1901 Goldstone Ground was sold. Construction began in late 2008 and cost around £ 100 million . The new home of the Seagulls , which bears the name Falmer Stadium (official sponsor name: American Express Community Stadium ), was completed in mid-2011, so that Brighton & Hove Albion moved into the new building for the 2011/12 season.
Web links
- europlan-online.de: Withdean Stadium - Brighton & Hove, East Sussex
- Withdean Stadium ( Memento from December 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Picture gallery ( Memento from December 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- groundhopperunited.co.uk: Ground # 246 - Withdean Stadium (English)
- fanbanter.co.uk: Looking back at Brighton & Hove Albion's former home Withdean Stadium (English)
- wearebrighton.com: Five of Withdean Stadium's weirdest features (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gemma Clarke: Simply the worst. In: guardian.co.uk. The Guardian , October 10, 2004, accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Stadium Gallery ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )