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Elland Road, also called Elland Road Football Stadium or Elland Road Stadium, is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Championship club Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919. [4] The stadium is the 13th largest football stadium in England.
Elland Road, home of Leeds United AFC, has a 39,640 capacity, all-seater stadium [21] on Elland Road, adjacent to the M621 in the north of Beeston. The South Leeds Stadium , part of the John Charles Centre for Sport is situated on Middleton Grove (off Dewsbury Road) on the southern edge of Beeston.
Leeds won both league games, 2–0 at Elland Road and 5–2 at Stamford Bridge. The match at Elland Road on 20 September 1969 continued in the same vein as previous encounters. A Yorkshire Post journalist lamented the many "late and early tackles" and condemned the teams for playing "venomously".
The newly formed Leeds City agreed to rent and later own Elland Road. After their disbandment, it was sold to Leeds United. The most recent stand at Elland Road is the East, or Family, Stand, a cantilever structure completed during the 1992–93 season that can hold 17,000 seated spectators. It is a two-tiered stand that continues around the ...
Elland Road football stadium was built in 1897 and thirty years later in 1927 two stadiums were constructed on its west side. The first Fullerton Park was built directly next door to the football stadium on the north side of Elland Road and the second Elland Road Greyhound Stadium was constructed opposite Fullerton Park on the south side of Elland Road.
The A643 road begins in Leeds and ended in Elland. It passes Leeds United's football ground, Elland Road. It now ends at junction 23 of the M62 motorway. The Elland bypass started construction on 23 February 1976 to finish by the end of August 1978, costing £8.5 million, built by A. Monk. [15] [16] The steel construction was by Braithwaites. [17]
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Churwell Working Men's Club. Churwell is a settlement in the civil parish of Morley, in the Leeds district, in West Yorkshire, England, between Leeds city centre and Morley. It is 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Leeds city centre and 1.5 miles (2 km) away from the Leeds United stadium Elland Road.