Withdean Stadium

Brighton & Hove Athletics Club Brighton & Hove Albion (1999-2011)

• Games of Brighton & Hove Albion (1999-2011)

The Withdean Stadium is a stadium with track and field facility in the English city of Brighton. It can accommodate 8,850 spectators and served the club Brighton & Hove Albion 1999-2011 as homestead.

The Withdean Stadium in Brighton, an English town on the coast of the English Channel in the county of East Sussex, was built in 1936 and still opened in the same year. At first it was only by Brighton & Hove Athletics Club, an athletics club based in Brighton and Hove, ie from the city of Brighton and their neighboring Hove. By 2011, it was also used by the football club Brighton & Hove Albion as the venue for home games. However, the club which currently plays in the second-rate Football League Championship in 1999 moved to the Withdean Stadium, as the previously used by the club stadium, the Goldstone Ground, was sold and demolished in 1997. The Withdean Stadium, according to a survey conducted by the Observer from 2004 one of the most unpopular stadiums in the UK.

Brighton & Hove Albion planned for a long time to build a new stadium; after selling the old Goldstone Ground in 1901. Construction began in late 2008 and cost about £ 100 million. The new home of the Seagulls, the name Falmer Stadium ( official name sponsors: American Express Community Stadium ' ) which was completed in mid-2011, so Brighton & Hove Albion moves for 2011/ 12 in the new building.