At which stadium did Derby County play their home games prior to moving to Pride Park?
"on 21 February 1996, that the club would leave the Baseball Ground. Derby's home since 1894, The Baseball Ground had been reduced to just 18,000 seat due to the legal requirement for all seater stadia, and the club's revenue opportunities were held back by limited attendances and the move to a purpose built, 30,000 seater stadium, later name Pride Park Stadium, on the Pride Park business park just outside Derby city centre, was born more of necessity then desire. The Baseball Ground's location in residential area meant that after all alternatives had been explored, including the renovating the Baseball Ground"
"Pride Park Stadium Pride Park Stadium, commonly known as Pride Park, is an all-seater football stadium in Derby, England, that is the home ground of English Football League club Derby County. With a capacity of 33,597, it is the 16th-largest football ground in England and the 20th-largest stadium in the United Kingdom. Located on Pride Park, a business park on the outskirts of Derby city centre, the stadium was built as part of the commercial redevelopment of the area in the 1990s. Derby County have played at the ground since it opened in 1997 as a replacement for their former"
"Park Stadium has also hosted events away from sport. It first hosted singer Rod Stewart on 26 June 2005 while touring his """" album. This was followed by Red Hot Chili Peppers, who played at the ground as part of the tour for their ""Stadium Arcadium"" album on 5 June 2006. Monster Jam came to Pride Park Stadium on 28 & 29 May 2011. Pride Park Stadium Pride Park Stadium, commonly known as Pride Park, is an all-seater football stadium in Derby, England, that is the home ground of English Football League club Derby County. With a capacity of 33,597,"
"20 September 1969, which Derby won 5–0. The record is unlikely to be broken in the near future as Derby's current stadium, Pride Park Stadium, has a limit of 33,597 spectators. The record attendance at Pride Park for a competitive Derby County match is 33,378 for a Premier League match against Liverpool on 18 March 2000. The largest crowd to ever watch a Derby County game is 120,000 when Derby County played Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in the 1975–76 European Cup. Derby's historically poor 2007–08 Premier League campaign saw the club set and equal several unwanted records"
"Derby County F.C. Derby County Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England. The club currently competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, and has played its home matches at Pride Park Stadium since 1997. Notable for being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888, Derby County is one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English football league system and, in 2009, was ranked 137th in the top 200 European football teams of the 20th century by the International"
"Pride Park Pride Park is a business park on the outskirts of the city centre of Derby, England. Developed in the 1990s, It covers 80 hectares of former industrial land between the River Derwent and railway lines. Pride Park Stadium and Derby Arena are both located in Pride Park. The site was formerly part of the railway yards, and was derelict for many years. It was the original site of Derby's railway manufacturing industry, but land here had also been used for gas and coke works, gravel abstraction and landfill. These uses left behind a cocktail of contaminants, including tars,"
"Park Stadium. In 2012, a 3k Wheelchair race was held for the first time with the race won by local athlete Phil Hogg. A full 10k wheelchair race was held in 2014, which was again won by Phil Hogg Key: WHEELCHAIR RACE Key: Derby 10k The Derby 10k is an annual 10 kilometre road running event held in Derby, UK in April, organised by Derbyshire charity Sporting Futures. Over 3,000 runners take part in the race, which starts outside Pride Park Stadium, the home of Derby County F.C. The course then loops around the Pride Park estate before heading over"
"a competitive Derby County match is 33,378 in a Premier League match against Liverpool on 18 March 2000. In a testimonial for Ted McMinn, on 1 May 2006, former players of both Derby County and Rangers contested a match at Derby County's Pride Park Stadium in which a record 33,475 spectators attended – around 10,000 of them being Rangers fans. As one of the largest football grounds in the Midlands, Pride Park has also hosted some notable matches not connected to Derby County. Pride Park has hosted one full England international; a 4–0 friendly victory over Mexico on 25 May"
"took place in October 2016, with the Happy Mondays supported by The Bluetones and Cast. Derby Arena Derby Arena is a multi-use indoor arena and velodrome at Pride Park in Derby, England. It was opened in 2015 and has hosted cycling, badminton and entertainment events. Construction was expected to be completed in November 2014 with the opening of the venue originally scheduled for January 2015. In May 2012 its development seemed uncertain due to a change of local government. It was constructed by contractors Bowmer and Kirkland and was scheduled for completion in 2014. The Arena was finally opened three"
"Derby Arena Derby Arena is a multi-use indoor arena and velodrome at Pride Park in Derby, England. It was opened in 2015 and has hosted cycling, badminton and entertainment events. Construction was expected to be completed in November 2014 with the opening of the venue originally scheduled for January 2015. In May 2012 its development seemed uncertain due to a change of local government. It was constructed by contractors Bowmer and Kirkland and was scheduled for completion in 2014. The Arena was finally opened three months late in March 2015 by Sarah Storey and Margaret Beckett. It is Britain's fifth"
"Derby County F.C., for most of the twentieth century. However, the stadium was demolished in 2004 having been largely unused since the club's departure to Pride Park some seven years earlier. The site is now being developed to provide private housing and some social with landscaped grounds and a memorial to the site's historic past. Peace activist Alice Wheeldon lived on Pear Tree Road, where her family home sheltered conscientious objectors avoiding conscription during the First World War. She was convicted of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Steve Bloomer was a footballer for Derby County, Midlesbrough and"
"between himself and the board. He was replaced by Bolton Wanderers first team coach Phil Brown. In January 2006, Brown was sacked after a poor run of results. Terry Westley, the academy coach at the time, took over first team duties until the end of the season and saved Derby from relegation. In April 2006, a consortium of local businessmen led by former vice-chairman Peter Gadsby purchased the club, reducing its debt and returning Pride Park Stadium to the club's ownership in the process. In June 2006, former Preston North End boss Billy Davies was appointed Derby County's new permanent"
"take place during the 2007–08 close season, provided the club avoided relegation. The plans include adding rows of seats to the north, south and east stands. If completed, this would allow the club to break its current club record home attendance, Pride Park was opened in 1997 when Derby left the Baseball Ground, as one of the first clubs to relocate to a new stadium to comply with the Taylor Report. The new stadium was opened just 18 months after the decision to relocate was made public; the previous plan had been for the Baseball Ground to be rebuilt with"
"a 26,000-seat capacity. However, the club failed to maintain its top-flight status and when, in January 2008, was sold into new American ownership, in the form of General Sports and Entertainment both the Plaza plan and the Ground expansion initiatives were scrapped. On 3 October 2011, Derby County announced that they had submitted plans to Derby City Council for a £7 million development of land outside the stadium, which the club named ""The Plaza @ Pride Park"". These plans include five cafes/restaurants, two convenience stores and 2,000 square metres of office space. These plans have been scaled down from the"
"2001, when the national side toured the country during the building of the new Wembley Stadium. The match also holds the record for the highest attendance at the stadium: a full-house of 33,598. The ground has hosted six England U21 matches. The results were as follows; Partly as a result of Derby's successful hosting of international U21 football, Pride Park was selected as a host venue as part of the English bid to host the 2013 European U21s Championship. Away from the England national side, the stadium hosted a friendly between Brazil and Ukraine on 11 October 2010. The match"
"was held at Derby's Pride Park in July 2007 which the host team won 2–0. Derby are the current holders, having retained the trophy after defeating Forest 2–0 at the Pride Park Stadium on 15 October 2017. The first competitive fixture was held on 1 October 1892 at the Racecourse Ground in the Football League Division One, and saw Nottingham Forest win 3–2. Although the clubs are rivals due to their geographical proximity, the rivalry grew even more intense towards the late 1970s when Brian Clough was appointed Forest manager, much to the dismay of the Derby support – in"
"The club recorded an average attendance of 26,020, 3 down previous campaign but still the third highest in the Championship behind West Ham United and Southampton. This was also the 14th best average attendance in the country, higher than the average gate of eight Premier League clubs. In October 2011, Derby County announced that they had submitted plans to Derby City Council for a £7 million development of land outside the stadium, which the club named ""The Plaza @ Pride Park"". The plans included five cafes/restaurants, two convenience stores and 2,000 square metres of office space. The plans were scaled"
"Derby at the forefront of English football by building Pride Park Stadium while many other clubs were still thinking about similar moves. Lionel also presided over the development of the academy for young footballers at Moor Farm, Oakwood. As the club's fortunes levelled off and subsequently began to slump, there was a moderate amount of disquiet amongst fans. Lionel went onto Radio Derby and said: ""If you can do better, where's your money - and if you don't like it, go and watch Forest.” In October 2003, Derby County's parent company, Derby County Limited, briefly went into liquidation and Pickering,"
"Ramsline Halt railway station Ramsline Halt, previously Baseball Ground Halt, was a single-platform railway station that opened by BR in 1990 to serve the Baseball Ground, the former home of Derby County football club in England. It is situated in Pear Tree, Derby. The station cost £26,000 to build, funded by the Football Trust, but only four trains ever stopped there. In 1997 Derby County moved to the new Pride Park Stadium and Ramsline Halt closed. In spite of this, it remains in reasonable condition. There is no current access to it, but it can be seen from Osmaston Road."
"in comparison to the Coventry-based stadium. On 17 January 2009, a bust of Steve Bloomer was unveiled next to the home dugout. On 3 October 2011, Derby County announced that they had submitted plans to Derby City Council for a £7 million development of land outside the stadium, which the club named ""The Plaza @ Pride Park"". These plans include five cafes/restaurants, two convenience stores and 2,000 square metres of office space. These plans have been scaled down from the planned £20 million pound development proposed in 2007. Derby County CEO Tom Glick said that these plans would help the"
"at Pride Park Stadium in early September in front of a new National League record of 2,109 fans, the second highest attendance seen to date across all leagues in the UK. The Ewe Rams secured the win in the fixture when local girl and Derby County fan, Amy Sims, headed the only goal of the game to ensure all three points. Heading into October, the squad remained unbeaten in all competitions with four wins and two draws in the league and advancing to the 2nd Round of the League Cup with a 3-1 win over Bedworth United LFC. The playing"
"was erected outside Pride Park in commemoration of their legacy. Despite the departure of Clough and Taylor, Derby's League success was repeated in the 1974–75 season when they won the title under successor Dave Mackay, who had been a player under Clough when they had returned to the top flight in 1969. However, Derby's form declined towards the end of the 1970s and they went down to the Second Division in 1980 after a string of managers, including former Manchester United boss Tommy Docherty, unsettled the club trying desperately to maintain its place at the top of the First Division."
"Development squad. The club recorded an average attendance of 26,020, down by exactly 3 from the previous campaign and still the third highest in the Championship behind West Ham United and Southampton. This was also the 14th best average attendance in the country, higher than the average gate of eight Premier League clubs. In October 2011, Derby County announced that they had submitted plans to Derby City Council for a £7 million development of land outside the stadium, which the club named ""The Plaza @ Pride Park"". The plans included five cafes/restaurants, two convenience stores and 2,000 square metres of"
"of Derby County Football Clubs' Pride Park Stadium in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. All England, Carnival Band Secretaries League, Midland Counties, South East Midlands Counties and Spanish Classic Champions. Resident Band for Derby County Football Club '97-'98 and '98 - '99 seasons. Tours of France and Scandinavia. The Royal Albert Hall The Grand National, Aintree The British Grand Prix, Silverstone The Lord Mayor of Westminster's New Year Parade Derby Serenaders The Derby Serenaders International Showband is a Marching band based in Derby, England. They have a Latin American style of music"
"Road, then at Alvaston it meets the A5111 Derby Ring Road ('Raynesway). It enters Crewton and just after a hump-backed bridge, it passes St Osmund's church. There is a roundabout with Ascot Drive near the Derby Conference Centre, and the road exits as Pride Parkway, which is related to the adjacent Pride Park Business Park and Pride Park Stadium, home of Derby County F.C.. It eventually reaches Litchurch near Derby College's new Roundhouse site; the land on which it was built was a former gas works. This section from the first roundabout to Station Approach (B6000) includes a viaduct, with"
"from the Plaza will be reinvested back into the club. This planned development also coincides with a plan from the City Council to build a multi-use sports arena on the same site as the proposed Plaza. Pride Park Pride Park is a business park on the outskirts of the city centre of Derby, England. Developed in the 1990s, It covers 80 hectares of former industrial land between the River Derwent and railway lines. Pride Park Stadium and Derby Arena are both located in Pride Park. The site was formerly part of the railway yards, and was derelict for many years."
"Derby Greyhound Stadium Derby Greyhound Stadium or Derby Stadium was a greyhound racing venue in Derby, England. A full century before turning into a greyhound stadium the site was used as the county gaol and called the Vernon Street Prison. It was a six acre site on South Street backing onto Uttoxeter Old Road and cost £65,000 to build. The entrance was at the end of Vernon Street and the construction took six years to complete opening in 1827. The walls were 25 feet high enclosing three acres of land and the gaol held over 300 prisoners. It continued to"
"in Division Two, it's a reasonable bet that crowds at Pride Park would not fall far below 20,000. It's historical, it's geographical, it's in the blood. Some places have it, some don't."" During the 2007–08 Premier League season, Derby County fans were repeatedly referred to as the best in the country due to their loyalty despite the club's disastrous campaign. Almost every home match at Pride Park Stadium was sold out by the Derby fans and the club also had a large following away from home. The recognition included them being named fans of the season in much national coverage"
"27 August 2010. In 2009, Pride Park was earmarked as a possible FIFA World Cup venue when Derby County announced its intention to apply to be one of the host cities as part of England's bid for the 2018 World Cup Finals, with Derby chief executive Tom Glick saying, ""What we [the board] know is that Derby already has the core elements to be a host city ... We are going to find out what the requirements are but we are certainly expecting that the requirement would be at least 40,000 seats. The ability to do that at Pride Park"
"@ Pride Park"". The plans included five cafes/restaurants, two convenience stores and 2,000 square metres of office space. The plans were scaled down from the planned £20 million pound development proposed in 2007. Derby County CEO Tom Glick, said that the plans would help the club deal with the new Financial Fair Play regulations, due to be introduced in the Football League from 2012, as revenue from the Plaza was intended to be reinvested back into the club. The planned development also coincided with plans from the City Council to build a multi-use sports arena on the same site as"
"seven seasons until it was invited into the County Championship in 1895. Derbyshire is also classified as a List A team since the beginning of limited overs cricket in 1963; and classified as a senior Twenty20 team since 2003. In recent years the club has enjoyed record attendances with over 24,000 people watching their home Twenty20 fixtures in 2017 – a record for a single campaign. The local derby versus Yorkshire at Chesterfield now regularly sells out in advance. The club is based at the County Cricket Ground, previously known as the Racecourse Ground, in the city of Derby. In"
"October 2011, Derby County Football Club announced that they had submitted plans to Derby City Council for a £7 million development of land outside Pride Park Stadium, which the club named ""The Plaza @ Pride Park"". These plans include five cafes/restaurants, two convenience stores and 2,000 square metres of office space. These plans have been scaled down from the planned £20 million pound development proposed in 2007. Derby County CEO Tom Glick, said that these plans would help the club deal with the new Financial Fair Play regulations which will be introduced in the Football League from 2012, as revenue"
"and can be extended further to hold up to 60,000. It is to be the second largest stadium in Wales, after the Millennium Stadium, also in the Welsh capital. In April 2007, Derby County released details of a proposed £20m development around their Pride Park Stadium which would create about 250 jobs. The Pride Plaza project would include a 165-bed hotel, bars, restaurants and office space. On 9 November 2007 Derby City Council agreed to let the plans go ahead. Additionally the club has announced plans to expand the capacity up from 33,500 to 44,000, with the work due to"