Home Park
Plymouth Argyle
- Games of Plymouth Argyle
- Concerts
The Home Park is a football stadium in Plymouth, England. It is owned and home of Plymouth Argyle, they currently play in the Football League One. Today, the stadium offers visitors 19,500 seats. It contributes, in reference to the Old Trafford in Manchester, nicknamed "Theatre of Greens ".
History
The stadium was built in 1893 as well as opened and that time was the venue for the rugby team of Devonport Albion. After disputes with the owner of the stadium rent rugby club took off in 1898, the stadium was empty three years. In 1901, then took over Plymouth Argyle the venue and uses the stadium to this day. At that time the stadium from a wooden stand with a capacity of 2,000 seats. On the three other sides were merely mounds of overburden and a waist-high fence. 1920, the grandstand was demolished and replaced by a larger, covered spectator rank with changing rooms and club offices. On the open side stone steps and breakwaters were installed. Many of the buildings were made possible by donations from supporters of the club.
After the Second World War, the stadium had to be rebuilt because it was destroyed by air raids in 1941. Out of need of materials you took to rebuild eg Railroad tracks, disused buses and trams. 1952 got the stadium is designed by Archibald Leitch stand and the mid-1950s floodlights. The Lyndhurst End 1964 got a canopy. The roof of the Devonport End had to be removed in the late 1970s for safety reasons and was re-roofed in 1984.
Until the 1990s there was no construction of the game and more, then the renovation of the stadium was announced. After lengthy discussions about a renovation or a new building elsewhere, the decision was ultimately for the conversion of Home Park. For the construction of two phases were provided. Phase one end Lyndhurst, Devonport End and Barn Park End were renewed; the work was completed in February 2002. Phase Two saw before the new construction of a three storey Grandstand. This has been postponed indefinitely due to financial difficulties. In June 2007, the standing of the Grandstand were blocked for security for visitors. So you installed there to hold seats at the stadium capacity at about 20,000 seats. To the new sound system has been installed and improves the floodlights at the Grandstand.
The attendance record of the rebuilt stadium was achieved on March 22, 2008. Go to Football League Championship game against Plymouth Argyle FC Watford 17,511 spectators came into the stadium. The largest number of visitors ever at the stadium came into the Home Park on October 10, 1936. The game Plymouth Argyle against Aston Villa then followed 43 596 spectators.
Other Terms
Over the years, the stadium has hosted several English football teams like the amateurs or the U23 men. Since summer 2007, the Plymouth Summer Festival takes place. On this occasion, concerts take place in Home Park and the beginning made Elton John on May 26, 2007 in front of 22,000 visitors. Well-known artists and groups such as George Michael, Meat Loaf, Westlife and Rod Stewart followed.
Grandstands
- Grandstand ( South)
- Lyndhurst End ( North )
- Devonport End ( West)
- Barn Park End (East)