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Filbert Street was a football stadium in Leicester, England, which served as the home of Leicester City F.C. from 1891 until 2002. Although officially titled the City Business Stadium in the early 1990s, it remained known almost exclusively by its address, like many English football stadiums.
Filbert Street was gradually upgraded during the 20th century and with the advent of the Taylor Report in January 1990 requiring all clubs in the top two divisions to have all-seater stadiums by August 1994, Leicester City's directors began to investigate building a new stadium during the early 1990s, but decided to take the redevelopment ...
This is a list of football stadiums in England that are now defunct. Each stadium is shown alongside the year in which it ceased to be used and the stadium by which it was replaced. Each stadium is shown alongside the year in which it ceased to be used and the stadium by which it was replaced.
Before moving to Filbert Street in 1891, the club played at five different grounds. The club joined the Football Association in 1890. It joined in the Midland League in 1891, and after finishing second was elected to the Second Division of the Football League in 1894. The first ever league game was a 4–3 defeat at Grimsby, but a week later at ...
The club have played at their 32,500-seat stadium since relocating from nearby Filbert Street in 2002. They had spent 111 years at Filbert Street and converted it into an all-seater format in 1993 with the construction of one new stand and the refurbishment of the three others, but a run of success in the top flight prompted demand for tickets ...
Filbert Street, Leicester, the double-decker stand . Fratton Park, Portsmouth; Goodison Park, Liverpool; Hampden Park, Glasgow; Home Park, Plymouth; Hyde Road Football Stadium, Manchester (General ground improvements 1911–1914 and a planned complete rebuild of the ground to accommodate 100,000; war broke out, bringing a halt to these plans) [8]
Last Saturday marked the end of an era for Doak Campbell Stadium ... snagged in the air by North Alabama's K.J. Trujillo during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 18 ...
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