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The Burnley club shop is located between the Bob Lord and Jimmy McIlroy Stands. [60] [76] The Cricket Field, opened in 1969, is Turf Moor's oldest stand. [10] [74] It houses home and away fans and has a capacity of around 4,000. [60] [77] The stand backs onto Burnley Cricket Club's pavilion and contains both teams' dressing rooms and the ...
Lord oversaw major redevelopment of Turf Moor, including a new stand at the Cricket Field end, and a replacement for the Main Stand that Lord named after himself. Both stands were opened by a friend of Lord, the Conservative Party leader and former Prime Minister Edward Heath. [4] As of 2024, both the Cricket Field Stand and Bob Lord stand are ...
Turf Moor has a capacity of 21,944 and consists of four stands: the North Stand (formerly the Longside), the Jimmy McIlroy Stand (formerly the Bee Hole End), the Bob Lord Stand, and the Cricket Field Stand for home and away fans. [84] [91] [92] Turf Moor's field had a slope until 1974, when the pitch was raised to minimise it. [84]
Initially two stands were open, with a third stand opening later in 1994, but eventually the two-tiered North Stand was completed to leave an all seater stadium with a capacity of 24,500 in 1998. The stadium complex includes fitness and leisure facilities built behind the North Stand with gymnasium, swimming pool and hotel facilities and offices.
The following is a list of stadiums in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 5,000 or more. They are ordered by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can normally hold.
His neat footwork made him a crowd favourite at Turf Moor and indeed for the Northern Ireland national team where he made 55 caps. [2] He helped Burnley win the First Division in 1959–60 and reach the FA Cup Final in 1962 , losing 3–1 to Tottenham Hotspur .
Between 2004 [10] and 2017, the firm sponsored Burnley F.C., during which time the club's Turf Moor stadium's Cricket Field Stand was named the David Fishwick Stand. [11] In 2005, having bought a helicopter for his own use and finding that others were asking if they could borrow it, Fishwick opened a helicopter business, David Fishwick ...
During the season, Turf Moor recorded its highest seasonal average attendance with 33,621, and the largest attendance at a league match with 52,869 against Blackpool. [51] Former Burnley player Alan Brown was appointed manager in 1954 and Bob Lord chairman a year later; [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Lord was later described by Arthur Hopcraft as "the ...