Ashton Gate Stadium

Home Nations Championship 1908
Rugby World Cup 1999
Games for Bristol City
Concerts

The Ashton Gate Stadium is a football stadium in the south-western English city of Bristol. It can accommodate 21,497 spectators and serves the club Bristol City as homestead.

History

The Ashton Gate Stadium was built in 1904. Previously was the Ashton Gate, a street in Bristol, the home of Bedminster FC, a club that by 1900 merged with Bristol City. After the merger, the management of Bristol City planned to build a stadium in Bristol, because of the previously existing sports field was not large enough for a high class game. The construction of the stadium was completed in 1904. Just four years after completion of the construction took place in the Ashton Gate Stadium, the first tournament, but not in football, but in rugby. In the Home Nations Championship 1908, in which the match between England and Wales, Final was held 18 to 28 in Bristol, the Welsh Rugby selection secured the trophy in this rugby union tournament. More than ninety years later, in 1999, Gate Stadium was once again held a major rugby event in Ashton. With the Rugby World Cup to Australia secured the title, with a game in Bristol took place.

The stadium is since 1904 the football club Bristol City as the venue for home games. Bristol has been one English runners and also once came into the FA Cup final, where Manchester United but had to admit defeat. The only notable success was winning the Welsh Cup 1934. Currently playing Bristol City in the third division, the Football League One.

The Ashton Gate Stadium has also been often used by well-known musicians for concerts. The rock group Bon Jovi presented at a concert in June 2008 to a record crowd, as 23,000 spectators flocked to the stadium. Furthermore, already played here the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Bryan Adams, The Who, Ronan Keating, Rod Stewart and Meat Loaf.

Grandstands

Bristol Evening Post Dolman Stand - longitudinal grandstand, 6,195 seats
Lancer Scott Williams Stand - longitudinal grandstand, 5,553 seats
Guilbert 's Wedlock Stand - stand behind, 5,500 seats
Blackthorn Atyeo Stand - stand behind, 4,249 seats

Bristol City Stadium

Bristol City plans to move in the near future in the Premier League. For this, the association wants to build a new stadium, which will bear the name Bristol City Stadium. First, the plans looked like that you wanted to expand the Ashton Gate Stadium only, but as time changed his mind and asked the Board for permission to build a new stadium. After the application was approved, the plan of the new arena began in 2008. Bristol City Stadium to be completed in 2012 and can accommodate 30,000 spectators, with 42,000 seats were originally planned. This idea was rejected by the declining attendances in English football. Nor should the Bristol City Stadium, whose construction costs amount to $ 29 million, serve as the venue for the World Cup 2018. In this case, you would have increased the capacity to 42,000 seats.

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