Invicta Ground
The Invicta Ground was a football stadium and home of former Royal Arsenal, which is known as Arsenal today. It was located in the London Borough of Plumstead, located in the southeast of the British capital.
The stadium was by Invicta ( " the undefeated " ), the former motto of the county of Kent, named, owned the land at that time. The course was the first real stadium of FC Arsenal. The sports field was equipped with a stand, a terrace row and locker rooms, which represented a significant improvement over the old stadium Manor Ground. The stadium was located south of Plumstead High Street.
As Royal Arsenal started unsubscribe at Invicta Ground games, the club was a pure amateur club, which at its home games attended by around 1,000 spectators. When the club took up the professional game operation, came up to 12,000 spectators for Invicta Ground. In the first 1893/94 season Arsenal first appeared in the Football League at ( first in the subprime Second Division ) and this was intended as a venue for the Invicta Ground. However, due to increased costs stages to Woolwich Arsenal adopted early by this plan and instead moved into the Manor Ground, after the land price for this stadium was cheaper there. After Umbaußnahmen at the Manor Ground the equipment should be nearly as good as the Invicta Ground then.
After moving from Royal Arsenal, was the only amateur club FC Royal Ordnance Factories to 1894 short new tenant of the Invicta Ground. The land was subsequently released for house construction. Today, the mineral Street and Hector Street located at the site of the former Invicta Ground. In the vicinity of some residents of the facilities Hector Street remnants of the former Invicta Ground ( eg concrete residues) can be discovered today.
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- Former venue for football ( London)
- Football stadium in Europe
- Building in the Royal Borough of Greenwich
- Abgegangenes building in London
- Built in the 1890s