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SHEFFIELD UNITED: BRAMALL LANE - THE HISTORY

BRAMALL LANE, THE HOME OF SHEFFIELD UNITED FC SINCE 1889 AND ALSO THE OLDEST SATADIUM IN THE WORLD STILL HOSTING FOOTBALL MATCHES. It opened on 30 April 1855 as a cricket ground and was in its first 7 years only used for cricket purposes. The first football match at the ground was played on 29 December 1862 when Sheffield FC took on Hallam FC (0-0). In the following years the stadium was regularly used for football matches of the local Sheffield teams. It got a permanent occupant in 1889 when Sheffield United was formed and moved into the stadium. Bramall Lane also hosted the first ever floodlit football match in 1878. The stadium underwent a series of expansions in the late 1890s when two new stands were built. Smaller improvements were made in the decades following, for example roofs were added, and a record attendance was set in 1936 when 68,287 spectators attended an FA Cup match between Sheffield United and Leeds. In 1966, a new two-tiered Bramall Lane Stand opened, but due to the fact that the ground was still being used for cricket matches, the stadium had a rather odd shape with a pitch about double the width of a standard football pitch. This meant in practice that one side of the stadium was just an empty field with the cricket pavilion in the back. This finally changed in 1975 when a new South Stand was built on the cricket pitch. From then on Bramall Lane was a proper football stadium. In the early 1990s, Sheffield United started a redevelopment program that would slowly convert Bramall Lane into an all-seater. The works started with the conversion of the Kop Stand into an all-seater, continued with the construction of a new John Street Stand, and were completed in the early 2000s with the construction of stands in two of the four corners.