"financial crisis of 2007–2008. It was then leased to a car parking company, but this arrangement was terminated by Leicester City Council in March 2012. Filbert Street Filbert Street was a football stadium in Leicester, England, which served as the home of Leicester City FC from 1891 until 2002. Although officially titled the ""City Business Stadium"" in the early 1990s, it remained known almost exclusively by its address, like many English football stadia. Leicester City was formed in 1884. The club was then named ""Leicester Fosse"", as its founders mostly lived in the west end of the city, through which"
"Street was sold to a development company for £3.75 million in March 2002, two months before the last game was played there. The last game to be played at Filbert Street was the last game of the 2001–02 season, a 2–1 victory against Tottenham Hotspur - one of just five league games that Leicester won during that season, culminating in relegation to Division One. Matt Piper scored the last goal scored at the ground, bringing to an end 111 years of football there. In the autumn of 2002, Rotherham United expressed interest in purchasing the Carling Stand and moving it"
"form that Filbert Street saw its record attendance of 47,298 for the Fifth Round FA Cup tie, against Tottenham Hotspur, on 18 February 1928. This game also saw many more spectators watch the match from the roof of the Filbert Street end. The first phase of ground development concluded with the covering of the East or Popular side in 1939. The middle section of the Main Stand suffered bomb damage in 1940, and was later further damaged by a serious fire. By 1949, the stand had been rebuilt, with much of the labour, ironically, being supplied by German POWs at"
"years to come. The derby has on occasion been marred by violence, the most recent in February 2008. Prior to that, another took place in Coventry in October 2004 where police officers were pelted with missiles. The first fixture between the two clubs was a Second Division game on 27 September 1919 and resulted in a 1–0 win for Leicester. The biggest victory resulted in an 8–1 to Leicester in the League Cup at Highfield Road on 4 December 1964. Coventry have been heavily beaten on two other occasions at Filbert Street, with both matches ending in a 5–1 win"
"2013 home games, plus at least four home games in each season from 2014 to 2016, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, home to the NFL's New England Patriots and the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. Although Gillette Stadium is nearly 100 miles (160 km) from the Amherst campus, it is within a half-hour drive of about 120,000 UMass alumni. In addition, UMass negotiated a deal with the stadium that gave the school a relatively low share of gameday revenue but limited its potential financial risk, and also allowed it to delay the possibility of having to build"
"""American"" (referring to the American college football bowl game concept). As a result of a fans' petition, the name was quickly changed to the ""Walkers Stadium""; however, some fans were still unhappy the name only referenced the sponsor, with no Leicester City reference, such as ""Filbert,"" ""Fosse"" or ""Foxes"". Consequently, the stadium was sometimes derogatorily referred to (by both Home and Away supporters) as the ""crisp bowl,"" in reference to Walkers best-known products. The naming rights were sold to King Power for the 2011–12 season. Some fans refer to the stadium as Filbert Way after the ground's address, retaining a"
"City's final season at Filbert Street, their home for 111 years, ended in relegation after just five league wins. Joining them in Division One were their local rivals Derby County, who had coincidentally been promoted alongside them six years earlier. Derby had finished not far above the relegation zone in the previous two campaigns, but Leicester had been a top 10 side as recently as two years before their relegation, when they had also won their second League Cup in four seasons. Last to go down were Ipswich Town, who had revived themselves mid-season after a disastrous start, but were"
"expansion plan will most likely extend the east stand, and possibly the south stand (Kop) into 2-tier stands. The club have played at their 32,500-seat stadium since relocating from nearby Filbert Street in 2002. They had spent 111 years at Filbert Street and converted it into an all-seater format in 1993 with the construction of one new stand and the refurbishment of the three others, but a run of success in the top flight prompted demand for tickets vastly outstripping supply, and the stadium's confined location made expansion difficult, so by 1998 the decision was made to build a new"
"after a seven-year exile from the top flight, and with their relegation after just one season it appeared the 21,500 capacity would be adequate. However, success in the late 1990s saw crowds rise, which meant virtually every game at Filbert Street was a sell-out by the end of the decade. Relocation was soon back on the cards; several similar sized clubs had relocated to new stadiums around this time, including Leicester's midland rivals Stoke City and Derby County. Some parts of the ground – the East and North Stands in particular – were also somewhat outdated, which led the manager,"
"Just before relegation was confirmed, Bassett became Director of Football and Adams was promoted to the manager's seat, with former Cardiff City boss Alan Cork being named as his assistant. On 12 May 2002, Leicester played their final game at Filbert Street before moving into their new 32,000-seat home. They ended up beating Tottenham Hotspur 2–1 to attain some satisfaction from winning the final game at their 111-year-old home; it was only their fifth league win of the season. The cost of relocation combined with the money lost from relegation plunged Leicester into a serious financial crisis. The priority for"
"office reads ""Foxboro"". The town is best known as the site of Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots of the National Football League and the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. Settled in 1704 and incorporated in 1778, the town of Foxborough was named for Charles James Fox, a Whig member of Parliament and a staunch supporter of the Colonies in the years leading up to the American Revolution. The town was once home to the world's largest straw hat factory. Founded by local businessman E.P. Carpenter, the Union Straw Works burned to the ground in the"
"charge saw the Cobblers equal their best ever Western League finishing runners up. Street play their home games at The Tannery Ground, Middlebrooks, Street, Somerset, BA16 0TA. Street F.C. Street Football Club are a football club based in Street, near Glastonbury, in Somerset, England. They are currently members and play at the Tannery. The club is affiliated to the Somerset County FA. Founded in 1880, Street FC is one of the oldest clubs in Somerset. Nicknamed The Cobblers due to a large shoe making industry in the village the early years were extremely successful and Street won the Somerset Senior"
"would have been very difficult, as the North and East Stands backed onto housing which would have been expensive to place under a compulsory purchase order. Although expansion was considered, by 1998 the decision had been taken to move to a completely new stadium. After a failed attempt to build a 40,000 all-seater stadium at Bede Island South (on the other bank of the nearby River Soar), the club purchased Freeman's Wharf, a former power station site 200 yards south of Filbert Street. Work began on a 32,500 seater stadium during 2001 and it was opened in July 2002. Filbert"
"Holker Street Holker Street, also known as the Furness Building Society Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a sports stadium located in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Currently and originally used as a football ground, it has also previously been used for speedways races. In addition, the ground also previously had some leisure centre facilities, including four squash courts which have now been demolished. Its current owners and tenants for the vast majority of its history are Barrow A.F.C., who have played at the ground since 1909. Despite having a present capacity of just under 11,000, some 16,874 people crammed the stadium in"
"Whilst the ground was closed, Loughborough played home matches at Filbert Street in Leicester and the Vicarage in Whitwick. Loughborough were voted out of the Football League at the end of the 1899–1900 season, and folded in the summer of 1900. The last League game at the ground had been a 2–1 defeat by Gainsborough Trinity on 23 April, with just 100 spectators in attendance. The ground was demolished in 1908, with housing later built on the site. Athletic Ground (Loughborough) The Athletic Ground was a football ground in Loughborough in England. It was the home ground of Loughborough F.C."
"Today it is home to an industrial estate and the stadium's former site is roughly bound by Nathan Way, Griffin Manor Way, and Hadden Road. Arsenal's departure saw another local club, Charlton Athletic, turn professional in 1920 and thus take their place as the main club of the area. Manor Ground (Plumstead) The Manor Ground located in Plumstead, south east London was a football stadium. This arena was the home of football club Royal Arsenal, which was later named Woolwich Arsenal, and as so came to be known as Arsenal F.C.. Under their original name of Dial Square, the club's"
"League and a total of three seasons in Division One. Southampton had converted The Dell into an all-seater stadium in the early 1990s as a short-term measure to comply with the Taylor Report, reducing capacity to 15,200 and was closed in 2001. Leicester City had briefly considered relocation at the beginning of the 1990s but then decided to redevelop Filbert Street, building a new 9,500-seat stand there in 1993 and filling in the remaining standing areas. Arsenal had converted Highbury into an all-seater stadium with a capacity of nearly 39,000 in 1993, with expansion of Highbury considered. After a bid"
"Leicester City F.C. Leicester City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Leicester. The club competes in the Premier League, England's top division of football, and plays its home games at the King Power Stadium. The club was founded in 1884 as Leicester Fosse F.C., playing on a field near Fosse Road. They moved to Filbert Street in 1891, were elected to the Football League in 1894 and adopted the name Leicester City in 1919. They moved to the nearby Walkers Stadium in 2002, which was renamed the King Power Stadium in 2011. Leicester won the 2015–16"
"Manor Ground (Plumstead) The Manor Ground located in Plumstead, south east London was a football stadium. This arena was the home of football club Royal Arsenal, which was later named Woolwich Arsenal, and as so came to be known as Arsenal F.C.. Under their original name of Dial Square, the club's very first match in December 1886 was on a field in the Isle of Dogs, that's close to Glengall Road which is now known as Tiller Road. After such, during the remainder of the 1886-87 season, the club which was newly renamed Royal Arsenal played upon Plumstead Common. They"
"his head out of the water."" He was the guest of honour at the Leicester's final game at Filbert Street (the club's home for over 110 years) in April 2002 and a suite at Leicester's current home ground The King Power Stadium is named after him in recognition of his service to the club. Smith was snapped up for Leicester in 1929 by Willie Orr as an inside-forward at the age of 16. where two of his older brothers, Thomas and Joe, were both already playing for Leicester. Tom was a regular in the first-team before moving to Manchester United"
"Newmarket Road (football ground) Newmarket Road was the home ground for Norwich City, before they moved to The Nest. Today, the club plays at Carrow Road, which has been their home ground since 1935. Norwich City F.C. played at Newmarket Road from the club's founding in 1902 to 1908, with a record attendance of 10,366 in a match against Sheffield Wednesday in a second round FA Cup match in 1908. Following a dispute over the conditions of renting the Newmarket Road ground, in 1908, the club moved to a new home, in a converted disused chalk pit in Rosary Road"
"capability but upgraded to 16-track in 1977 and to 24-track a year or two later. It was sold by Gray in 1987. Less influentially, but with much notoriety in the area, in 1980, local band the Head released the punk rock single ""Nothing To Do in a Town Like Leatherhead"". There is a local football team Leatherhead F.C. (""The Tanners"") who play at Fetcham Park Grove. In the 1974–75 season the Tanners were drawn against First Division Leicester City at home in the FA Cup Fourth Round Proper. With the game switched to Filbert Street, the BBC's ""Match of the"
"ninth grade and up, Freeport was ranked in the highest tier. In the early 1930s, Freeport was the playing field for the Pennsylvania Red Caps of New York, a semi-pro baseball team which took their name from the caps worn by Pullman porters. For a few years after that, the NFL's Brooklyn Dodgers football team, which, like their Los Angeles Dodgers baseball namesakes, played at Ebbets Field, using the stadium as a midweek training site. The site is now a Warehouse BJ's Wholesale Club. From 1931 until the early 1980s, Freeport was home to Freeport Speedway, originally Freeport Municipal Stadium."
"Layer Road Layer Road was a Football League stadium in Colchester, England. It was only used for football matches and was the home ground of Colchester United before being replaced by the Colchester Community Stadium. The stadium held spectators and was built in 1907, originally for use by Colchester Town Football Club. Layer Road has often had up to packed into the ground, when Colchester had been on a good FA Cup run, before the capacity was reduced to . The record attendance at Layer Road is for an FA Cup fixture against Reading in November 1948, a match that"
"days later in front of 13,000 people, Napoli tied Rapid Vienna 1-1, in one of the last events held there. Gaelic football was also played at Ebbets Field. On June 24, 1931, the world champion County Kerry team defeated Kildare by a score of 18-3 with an attendance of 2,500 fans under floodlights in a night game. Ebbets Field also hosted nearly 90 fight cards in its history. Ebbets Field Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. It is known mainly as the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team of"
"won the League Cup three times in 1964, 1997 and 2000, as well as being runners-up in 1965 and 1999. Leicester City have also competed in European football, featuring in the 1961–62 European Cup Winners' Cup, 1997–98 UEFA Cup, 2000–01 UEFA Cup, and most recently the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, reaching the quarter-finals of the competition in that year. Formed in 1884 by a group of old boys of Wyggeston School as ""Leicester Fosse"", the club joined The Football Association (FA) in 1890. Before moving to Filbert Street in 1891, the club played at five different grounds, including Victoria Park"
"were beaten 4–1 at the Reebok Stadium, whilst the Bolton Hospital Cup was won with a 3–1 win over Eagley at the same venue. They remained in the division (which was renamed the Premier Division in 2008) until finishing bottom of the table in 2011–12, after which they were relegated to Division One. The club play home matches at Crilly Park, which has a capacity of 3,000, of which 250 is seated; three sides of the ground are covered. They originally played at Laburnum Road Playing Fields, from which they took their name, and used a shed in a nearby"
"be; some of the stadium's concrete terracing still survives in the back gardens of houses in Hector Street. Invicta Ground The Invicta Ground was a football stadium in Plumstead, south-east London, that was the home of club Royal Arsenal which is now known as Arsenal. Named after ""Invicta"", the motto of the county of Kent, the ground was Arsenal's first proper stadium, being equipped with a stand, a row of terracing and changing rooms. The arena stood on the south side of Plumstead High Street with Arsenal's old home, the Manor Ground which was upon the opposite side of high"
"Premier Division, with Farnborough in second place. Green Pond Road Green Pond Road was a football stadium in Walthamstow, London and the home ground of Walthamstow Avenue until they merged with Leytonstone & Ilford to form Redbridge Forest, a precursor to Dagenham & Redbridge. The ground was often simply called 'The (Green) Pond'. The stadium was used for one game during the football tournament of the 1948 Summer Olympics. The last game played at Green Pond Road was the last game of the 1988/89 season (on Saturday 13 May 1989), when Leytonstone/Ilford defeated Farnborough Town 5-3. Leytonstone had finished the"
"13th place – their lowest finish since winning promotion to the Premier League back in 1996. Several high-profile end-of-season signings – including that of Chelsea player Dennis Wise – gave fans hope that Leicester could regain their form and rejoin the challenge for honours in 2001–02. November saw the announcement of plans to relocate to a new 32,000-seat stadium at a site adjacent to Filbert Street, with a targeted completion for the start of the 2003–04 season. Later in the season, it was announced that Leicester would only have to spend one more season at their Filbert Street ground before"
"the Ethelbert Road Boys School and Lady Capel School for Girls. It has over 1000 pupils and is located in the south of the town, beside the A2 London Road. Faversham Town F.C. were formed in 1884 and compete in Division One South of the Isthmian League. They have a 2000-seat stadium to the south of the town and are the only team besides the England national football team to wear the 3 lions badge. The King George V playing fields are all that remain of the Mount Field, which in 1876 hosted a first-class match between Kent and Hampshire"
"(called Malbone Street at the time) and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn was completed and Ebbets Field opened for its first ballgame. Following an exhibition game on April 5 in which the Superbas beat the Yankees 3–2, opening day of April 9, 1913, saw a packed house witness the Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Superbas 1–0. Not only was he now a half-owner and president of the Brooklyn Superbas Baseball Club in the National League, he also had a stadium named in his honor. In addition to his service to the Brooklyn Dodgers, he was politically active. He served as a Democratic"
"and the Shamrock Rovers Heritage Trust marked the 25th anniversary of the last game at Glenmalure Park in Milltown with a Stadium to Stadium Walk in April 2012 . Four other League of Ireland clubs played home matches at Glenmalure Park – Shelbourne United in the 1923–24 season, Reds United in the 1935–36 season, Shelbourne from 1949–51, and St Patrick's Athletic from 1951-54. The ground also hosted a boxing event in August 1966 Glenmalure Park Glenmalure Park, often simply known as Milltown, was a football stadium on the Southside of Dublin city in Ireland. Located in the suburb of Milltown,"