Ayresome Park

Middlesbrough F. C.

The Ayresome Park was an English football stadium and since its construction for the 1903/04 season, the home ground of FC Middlesbrough until the new Riverside Stadium was opened then in 1995.

Middlesbrough had previously played at Linthorpe Road, but admission to the Football League called for an improved stadium. The Ayresome Park was built in Paradise Field and directly bordered on the old stadium of Middlesbrough Ironopolis, who played in the Football League in the 1893/94 season.

The attendance record is 53.802 and was set up on 27 December 1949 game against local rivals Newcastle United. The Ayresome Park was also one of the venues for the World Cup 1966., Where three games were completed, the teams from the Soviet Union, North Korea, Italy and Chile were seen. In one of the biggest surprises in the history of the football World Cup North Korea defeated Italy with one of the best football teams in the Ayresome Park 1-0 and qualified for the quarter-finals of the competition. Nevertheless, the number of visitors in the Ayresome Park were the lowest in the whole tournament, where the game was attended by North Korea against Chile only 15,887 spectators.

In the early 1980s, the stadium was clearly outdated and needed a series of remedial work to bring it up to the latest state of development. The provisions of the Taylor Report, a kind of requirements for the security in the stadiums after the Hillsborough disaster, then demanded that the FC Middlesbrough either a renovation perform or should build a new stadium to play in the Premier League. The last game at Ayresome Park then took place in the 2-1 win against Luton Town on 30 April 1995. Prior to this game, a number of former players of FC Middlesbrough at a special lap of honor were rewarded. As Middlesbrough could ascend at the end of the season, the club moved to the next season in the new Riverside Stadium.

The Ayresome Park was demolished in 1996 and replaced by condominiums.

  • Former venue for football ( England)
  • Football stadium in Europe
  • Building in Middlesbrough
  • Abgegangenes building in England
  • Built in the 1900s
  • Destroyed in the 1990s
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