East End Park

• Dunfermline Athletic

• Games of Dunfermline Athletic (since 1885)
• Greyhound Racing (1932-1951)

The East End Park is a football stadium in Dunfermline, Scotland. It is the home and property of the Scottish football club Dunfermline Athletic. The facility has 11,780 seats.

History

The original stadium was built in 1885 on a rented plot of the railway company North British Railway. The first game on July 13, 1885 denied Dunfermline Athletic against Edinburgh University. The friendly match ended in a 2-1 win for the home side. On October 29, 1887 there inaugurated a new building with two dressing rooms, laundry room and conference room. The cost of construction amounted at that time to 80 pounds.

1920 bought the club for £ 3,500 a 12,000 square meter site east of the old venue. On the land, the club had a playing field with a circular running track and bleachers built on the north, east and the west side. In the early 1920s, the stadium received a wooden grandstand with 16,000 seats. At this time, the stadium was closed for one month; after the referee was bumped and locked up in a match against FC St. Johnstone. From 1932 to 1951, the East End Park was used in irregular order for greyhound racing. The northern Admission Rank was 1934 and the East Stand roof has been renovated. On November 13, 1948, the radio system was the first game from the East End Park. The match against FC Dunfermline East Stirlingshire ended with 5:2. On the stands in 1951 for the breakwaters were installed in the stadium. The North rank was 1957, a shed roof.

The first live television broadcast from the East End Park took place on December 13, 1958 with the match against Dundee United Dunfermline, the pars designed victorious 2-1. In 1959, the sports center for £ 12,000 received floodlights; which was inaugurated with a 3:4 victory against Sheffield United. The last game before the old grandstand was held on March 24, 1962 between the Pars and FC Kilmarnock (2-0) instead. After that, the building made ​​way for a new grandstand. About five months later, on August 15, we opened the £ 65,000 spectators expensive rank with the Scottish FA Cup match against FC Dunfermline Kilmarnock; the game ended in a 3-3 draw. Between 1965 and 1967, extended the roof of the Main Stand and was later connected to the roof of the grandstand in the West. Now three of the four places were provided with a roof. The attendance record was set on April 30, 1968, 27,816 visitors in the Cup match against Celtic Glasgow. In the summer of 1987, the West Stand was given at the entrances and turnstiles in the main stand installed one new seats. The guests rank in the East experienced in the summer of 1989, a complete reconstruction with turnstiles at entrances and exits. At that time, the stadium took almost 20,000 visitors.

From the summer of 1997 began extensive remodeling of the bleachers at East End Park. The standing room on the north rank differed seats; the main stand was renovated and received a new entrance hall and a gym. In September / October 1997 we started with the setting up of the first two towers of the new floodlights; the first game under the new floodlights on November 1, lost the Pars against Celtic Glasgow 0-2. By the end of the season the stadium with the two masts had to make do. The Hintertorränge the east and west disappeared in the summer of 1998 and were replaced by seating grandstands.

On 12 December 1998, the West Stand was named after the former Dunfermline player Norrie McCathie. The defender played between 1981-1996 nearly 500 games for the Pars. He and his girlfriend Amanda Burns arrived on January 8, 1996 at home by carbon monoxide poisoning died.

On 9 August 2000, the construction work was completed and the East End Park had 12,500 seats on the four covered stands. At the opening of a friendly game between Dunfermline Athletic and Arsenal took place, which ended with a 3-0 for the Gunners from London. In summer 2001, the club was relocated under the playing field a soil heating. One year later equipped the grandstand with a sports bar and conference and meeting rooms. In August / September 2003, an artificial turf was laid in the stadium in the wake of an attempt by UEFA. According to a 2005 poll among the clubs of the Scottish Premier League, spoke with 3:9 votes against the artificial turf in the first Scottish league.

Grandstands

• Main Stand - ( South Grandstand )
• North Stand - (North, opposite the main stand )
• Norrie McCathie stand - (West, stand behind )
• East Stand - (east, stand behind, guests Rank)