5 Fun Facts About Football Grounds

Which former Football League club played at the McCain Stadium on Seamer Road?

The 1988 renaming was one of English football's first stadium sponsorship deals; the club stayed at the ground until 2007 and folded that year.

West Ham United's home from 1904 to 2016, usually called Upton Park, was officially known as what?

The final first-class match there was a 3-2 win over Manchester United on 10 May 2016 before the move to the London Stadium in Stratford.

What was 'the Etihad' officially called from its 2003 football conversion until 2011?

Built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games as an athletics arena, it was converted into a 48,000-seat football ground before City moved in from Maine Road in 2003; the club renamed it in July 2011.

Which Devon club has played at St James Park since its founding in 1901?

Not to be confused with Newcastle's St James' Park; Exeter's ground record crowd of 20,984 came against Sunderland in a 1931 FA Cup tie.

Dean Court, now the Vitality Stadium, is named for a family who gave which club land in 1910?

The club was then called Boscombe; the Cooper-Dean family's gift became the ground, which took the Vitality name in July 2015.