Bloomfield Road
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Bloomfield Road is the name of a football stadium in England Blackpool, Lancashire. It can accommodate 16,220 spectators and serves the FC Blackpool as a home ground. The club currently plays in the Football League Championship, England's second league. Thus, it is in this league one of the smallest stadiums.
In 1899, the Bloomfield Road was opened in Blackpool. Earlier, the stadium, which at that time resembled more a sports field, as there are very few spectator stands, not to mention all grandstands gave the name Gamble 's Field. The first game in the Bloomfield Road took place in 1899 between South Shore FC, a club that was a little later to join the Blackpool FC and Newton Heath FC, now known as Manchester United instead. After the takeover of South Shore by the FC Blackpool FC Blackpool the stadium served as the home since 1901. This club still carries out its home games in the Bloomfield Road.
The highest number of spectators at a game in the stadium of FC Blackpool is 38,000 spectators at the match between FC Blackpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers on 17 September 1955. At that time, however, fit into the stadium and just over 30,000 people, so it was only slightly crowded. Since 2000, a complete renovation of the Bloomfield Road takes place. After the end of this renovation, the capacity of the stadium is said to be 17,625 places. Currently you have arrived at a number of 16,220.
The Bloomfield Road basically consists of four stands. On the one hand there is the Sir Stanley Matthews West Stand, which is named after Sir Stanley Matthews (1915-2000), the best footballer who ever wore the jersey of FC Blackpool. This grandstand is the main grandstand. It is home to the players' tunnel, where the players of both teams come to play in the stadium. Another grandstand is the Stan Mortensen North Stand, also known as The Kop. This grandstand is named after a different Blackpool legend, the former striker Stan Mortensen ( 1921-1991 ). Furthermore, there is the East Stand, which forms an opposite stand to Sir Stanley Matthews and West Stand is the stand within the stadium with the second- most seats. Last but not least is still the Jimmy Armfield South Stand to mention his name after 43maligen England international and world champion of 1966, Jimmy Armfield, has spent his entire career at FC Blackpool.