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St James' Park is a football stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is the home of Newcastle United. With a seating capacity of 52,350 seats, it is the 8th largest football stadium in England. St James' Park has been the home ground of Newcastle United since 1892 and has been used for football since 1880. [2]
Stadium: St James' Park; Capacity: 52,305 [7] Current stadium status: Reconstructed. In 2007 under the chairmanship of Freddy Shepherd, Newcastle United announced plans to increase the capacity of St James' Park by 8,000 to 60,000 by rebuilding the Gallowgate End as part of a £300m scheme to redevelop the stadium and its surrounding area. [62]
There were also talks of a future groundshare at the Sandy Park stadium should Exeter City decide to leave St James Park. In the end, the Chiefs missed promotion by 4 points to Bristol and were able to stay at the County Ground for the next season. Contractual restrictions on the use of Sandy Park halted talk of a future groundshare there too.
Plans to leave the ground were discussed at the Newcastle United Fan Advisory Board on Monday. "My natural instinct was always to stay at St James' Park," Howe said. "But we are well aware that ...
The 2025 edition of Super League's Magic Weekend will return to Newcastle United's St James' Park following a year at Leeds United's Elland Road. The event, which was first held in 2007, will take ...
St James' Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, ground of Newcastle United F.C. St James Park (Exeter), England, ground of Exeter City F.C.
It has since been extensively re-developed on three occasions. Its capacity of around 11,800 [nb 1] is the greatest in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, the third-largest in Tyne and Wear (behind St James' Park and the Stadium of Light), and the sixth-largest in North East England. [5] The main arena is principally used for athletics.
St James's Park is a 23-hectare (57-acre) urban park in the City of Westminster, central London. A Royal Park , it is at the southernmost end of the St James's area, which was named after a once isolated medieval hospital dedicated to St James the Less , now the site of St James's Palace .