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The City of Manchester Stadium (currently known as the Etihad Stadium for sponsorship reasons) [2] is the home of Premier League club Manchester City, with a domestic football capacity of 53,400, [1] making it the 6th-largest football stadium in England and 11th-largest in the United Kingdom. [3]
Old Trafford ( / ˈtræfərd /) is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and the home of Manchester United. With a capacity of 74,310 [1] it is the largest club football stadium (and second-largest football stadium overall after Wembley Stadium) in the United Kingdom, and the twelfth-largest in Europe. [3]
The City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, known as the Etihad Stadium since 2011 for sponsorship reasons, is on a 200-year lease from Manchester City Council to Manchester City. It has been the club's home since the end of the 2002–03 season , when City moved from Maine Road . [170]
The City of Manchester Stadium was used for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and is the home of Manchester City Football Club. The stadium with twelve 70 metre high masts and a capacity of just over 55,000 has become a landmark on the Manchester skyline. The stadium is leased to the football club. [8] .
- Decision to Move
- Construction
- Early Years and Record Attendance
- Post Second World War
- 1950s to 1980s
- Modernisation
- Final Match and Move to City of Manchester Stadium
- Redevelopment Plans
Plans to build Maine Road were first announced in May 1922, following a decision by Manchester City to leave their Hyde Roadground, which did not have room for expansion and its main stand had been severely damaged by fire in 1920. Two sites in Belle Vue in east Manchester were suggested, but neither was deemed sufficient. To many City fans east Ma...
A 16.25 acre former brickworks on Maine Road was purchased for £5,500. The road was originally known as Dog Kennel Lane but renamed Maine Road (after the Maine law) during the 1870s at the insistence of the Temperance movementwhich owned land on Dog Kennel Lane and the local authority accepted its request. During construction, the stadium was reput...
The first match at Maine Road took place on 25 August 1923 when 58,159 fans watched Manchester City beat Sheffield United 2–1. The first changes to the ground took place in 1931, when the corner between the Main Stand and the Platt Lane end at the south of the ground was rebuilt to incorporate a roof.This renovation was the first of many, as Maine ...
The stadium was shared by Manchester United after the Second World War as Manchester United's Old Trafford ground had been damaged during the Manchester Blitz. United paid City £5,000 per season, plus a share of gate receipts. The highest attendance for a league game at Maine Road occurred during this period, when 83,260 people watched Manchester U...
Floodlights for the stadium were installed in 1953 and further development took place in 1957. This was prompted by the hosting of two FA Cup semi-finals in successive years, the side facing the Main Stand (which until that time was generally known as the Popular Side) was redeveloped and named The Kippax after a nearby street. Over the course of t...
By 1990, some areas of the ground were becoming outdated, and there was the need for the stadium to become all-seater following the outcome of the Taylor Report in January that year, and the Platt Lane stand was demolished in 1992. Its place was taken by the all-seater Umbro Stand that also incorporated executive boxes and was opened in March 1993....
There were plans for further expansion at Maine Road to take the capacity to an all-seated 45,000, but these were abandoned in favour of a move to the City of Manchester Stadium built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The final competitive match before the closure of the stadium took place on 11 May 2003 with a Premiership match against Southampton....
Towards the end of Maine Road's lifespan there were proposals for other sports teams to make use of the stadium following City's relocation; Stockport County once expressed interest in moving there from Edgeley Park, and in December 2000 Sale Sharks rugby union club was offered a lease for the stadium. However, none of the proposals came to fruitio...
Manchester City moved into their new complex at the Etihad Campus adjacent to the City of Manchester Stadium in 2014. In Pellegrini's first season, City won the League Cup and regained the Premier League title on the last matchday of the season.
Manchester City and Manchester United are popular Premier League football clubs in Greater Manchester. United's ground is in Old Trafford; Manchester City's home ground is the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester. Fixtures between the clubs are referred to as the Manchester Derby.
