Old Football League Grounds

1939 Hull City Anlaby Road to Boothferry Park

1950 Port Vale The Old Recreation Ground to Vale Park

1955 Southend United Southend Stadium to Roots Hall

1963 Accrington Stanley Peel Park to Crown Ground

1970 Gateshead Redheugh Park to Gateshead International Stadium

1973 Bradford Park Avenue Park Avenue to Horsfall Stadium

1985 Charlton Athletic The Valley (old) to The Valley (new)

1986 Bristol Rovers Eastville Stadium to Memorial Stadium

1988 Scunthorpe United Old Showground to Glanford Park

1990 Walsall Fellows Park to Bescot Stadium

1990 Wycombe Wanderers Loakes Park to Adams Park

1990 Yeovil Town Huish to Huish Park

1991 Wimbledon Plough Lane —

1992 Chester City Sealand Road to Deva Stadium

1993 Millwall The Den to The New Den

1994 Huddersfield Town Leeds Road to Galpharm Stadium

1994 Northampton Town County Ground to Sixfields Stadium

1995 Middlesbrough Ayresome Park to Riverside Stadium

1997 Bolton Wanderers Burnden Park to Reebok Stadium

1997 Brighton and Hove Albion Goldstone Ground to Withdean Stadium

1997 Derby County Baseball Ground to Pride Park Stadium

1997 Stoke City Victoria Ground to Britannia Stadium

1997 Sunderland Roker Park to Stadium of Light

1998 Reading Elm Park to Madejski Stadium

1999 Wigan Athletic Springfield Park to JJB Stadium

2001 Oxford United Manor Ground to Kassam Stadium

2001 Southampton The Dell to St Mary's Stadium

2002 Hull City Boothferry Park to KC Stadium

2002 Leicester City Filbert Street to Walkers Stadium

2003 Darlington Feethams to The Darlington Arena

2003 Manchester City Maine Road to City of Manchester Stadium

2005 Burton Albion Eton Park to Pirelli Stadium

2005 Coventry City Highfield Road to Ricoh Arena

2006 Arsenal Highbury to Emirates Stadium

2007 Doncaster Rovers Belle Vue to Keepmoat Stadium

2007 Shrewsbury Town Gay Meadow to New Meadow

2007 Milton Keynes Dons National Hockey Stadium to Stadium:mk

2008 Colchester United Layer Road to Colchester Community Stadium

2008 Rotherham United Millmoor to Don Valley Stadium

2009 Cardiff City Ninian Park to Cardiff City Stadium

2010 Chesterfield Saltergate to B2net Stadium

2010 Morecambe Christie Park to Globe Arena

2011 Brighton and Hove Albion Withdean Stadium Falmer Stadium

2012 Rotherham United Don Valley Stadium to New York Stadium

2013 Barnet Underhill Stadium to The Hive Stadium

Above is all the ground moves since 1939 (went back that far as Annis was around then ). I wondered about old grounds when I read the Chester vs. Wrexham thread and couldn't remember what Chester's ground was before the Deva (Sealand Road).

Going through the list brought back loads of memories. Feethams (Darlington) was a ground I used to go to whilst in based in the Army, Belle View (Doncaster) was one of the first ever away games I went to and remember the racecourse behind one end, The Den (Millwall) say no more Filbert Street (Leicester) was one of my favourite grounds for some reason and I always loved Bolton (Burnden Park ) if I remember rightly it had a supermarket at one end.

Whilst they were antiquated each club ground seemed to have its own character and are sorely missed. I don't want to turn this into a Ninian vs CCS thread rather I'd like to know posters (the older ones obviously) experiences are of these grounds.

Don't forget the Jacks moving from the Vetch to the Council House Tony.


I remember going to Roker Park for a Cup reply against Sunderland which was drawn again and the 2nd reply, which I think was at Maine Road, was a midweek afternoon kick off because of power cuts. We did win 3-1 though so worth going. We went to a 2nd reply against Bolton the following season but lost on that occasion. Good atmosphere in all those grounds back in the day.

Newcastle,st james park,got bad memories of that place.

The only old grounds I've visited on that list are highfield road, highbury, mk hockey stadium, withdean st, layer road and saltergate.