Edgeley Park

Stockport County ( Football) Sale Sharks (Rugby)

The Edgeley Park is a football stadium in the English town of Stockport. It offers 10,832 spectators and is the home stadium of both the football club Stockport County as well as the first team of the Rugby Union club Sale Sharks.

The first game at Edgeley Park took place on 13 September 1902. The Stockport Rugby Club used the stadium as well, but broke up in 1905. In the following decades, the stadium was expanded continuously. A fire destroyed the original 1935 built wooden grandstand, it was lost for the most part also the club archive of Stockport County. The record number of audience was reached in 1950, when 27,833 football fans followed these the game in the fifth round of the FA Cup against Liverpool.

The floodlight system was first used on October 16, 1956 during a friendly match against the Dutch team Fortuna 54 Geleen. In 1978, the final of the Lacrosse World Championship was held in Edgeley Park. In 2003, the founding of the company Cheshire Sports, an umbrella organization with Stockport County and Sale Sharks took place. Both clubs share since the stadium; the amateur and youth teams of the Rugby club from the neighboring town of Sale continued to use the half as large stadium at Heywood Road.