The Hawthorns

West Bromwich Albion

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The Hawthorns is a football stadium in West Bromwich, England. The football club West Bromwich Albion, who plays in the 2012/13 season in the Premier League, is the owner and there carries its home games. The Hawthorns is the highest stadium ( 168m above sea level ) of all four professional soccer leagues in England.

History

The stadium was built in 1900 in just four months and summarizes today, like almost all English football stadiums fully equipped with seats 26,500 spectators. It is nicknamed The Shrine ( German: The Shrine ). When the club after several relocation was looking for a permanent venue, he acquired a site outside of the city that had to be first freed from rampant Hawthorn. Hence the name of the stadium: If a guest as an away team in " The Hawthorns ," plays literally the " hawthorn bushes ".

With the first match on September 3, 1900 against Derby County (1-1) of West Bromwich Albion moved from the old stadium Stoney Lane in the new The Hawthorns. 1920, the first grandstands were erected around the field in 1949 was followed by an electric turnstile at the inputs in order to determine the exact number of audience can. £ 1957 floodlight pylons were installed for 18,000 and since 2002, the stadium has a video screen. In 2008, the West Stand was given a style, they reduced the stadium capacity from 28,003 to 26,272 seats.

The attendance record was achieved on 6 March 1937 in the FA Cup game against West Bromwich Albion Arsenal. The meeting of the 6th round then saw 64 815 visitors to the stadium. The record after conversion to a seat stadium dates from 15 May 2005. It came in the Premier League match West Bromwich Albion and Portsmouth at front of 27,751 spectators.

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