St. James’ Park (Exeter)

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The St. James ' Park is a football stadium in Exeter. It can accommodate 8,830 spectators and is used to Exeter City as homestead.

The St. James' Park, Exeter, the county town of Devon in southwest England, was built in 1904 and opened on 10 September of the same year. The reason for the construction of the stadium was the foundation of Exeter City Football Club in 1904 also, which required a stadium as the venue for home games. So since then uses Exeter City to St James' Park for football home games. The club played from 1920 to 2003 continuously, but unsuccessfully, in the lower leagues of the English professional football, that is, in the various leagues in the Football League. Currently, you can find the club against which the Brazilian national football team is to have completed in 1914 their first game in the Football League Two, the fourth English top flight.

The St. James ' Park in Exeter, with a capacity of 8,830 spectators, one of the smallest stages of the fourth English football league, but this is understandable since Exeter City one of the smallest clubs in this league is. The record attendance at the stadium was reached when in 1932 the AFC Sunderland guested on an FA Cup match of the sixth round in Exeter and won 4-2. For this game, 20,984 spectators came to St. James ' Park. However, it must be said that at that time even more spectators were allowed in the stadium. The actual capacity was only achieved through renovations in 1994, which mainly improves the security and the stadium was modernized. As a special feature may have the St James' Park that is next to the stadium, a station of the railway line, which passes through Exeter is located. This station forms with their roof, a tribune of St. James' Park.