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Ewood Park (/ ˈ iː w ʊ d /) is a football stadium in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and the home of Blackburn Rovers F.C., founding members of the Football League and Premier League, who have played there since 1890.
The Blackburn Rovers committee felt this was the ideal venue for the club after having already played numerous games there in 1882. The first game played at the new Ewood Park ground was on 13 September 1890 against Accrington, the 0–0 draw was viewed by 10,000 people and on 31 October 1892 artificial lights were installed. [58]
Blackburn equalised in the second half when, in the 60th minute, Sutton headed the ball down to Alan Shearer who side-footed the ball past Bruce Grobbelaar. [4] Blackburn recorded their first victory of the season just three days later at Ewood Park, running out 3–0 winners against Leicester City. Chris Sutton got the first goal and his first ...
Blackburn Rovers' Championship meeting with Portsmouth at Ewood Park is one of several EFL matches to fall victim to Storm Bert on Saturday. [Getty Images]
Blackburn Rovers' opposition in their play-off final semi-final were Derby County, with the first leg taking place at Ewood Park, Blackburn, on 10 May 1992. [2] Within fifteen minutes, the visitors were two goals ahead: Marco Gabbiadini scored the opener with a header past Bobby Mimms from a Paul Simpson free kick.
The return of Alan Shearer from a long-term injury saw him make a swift return to his superb form of old, with the 23-year-old hitman scoring 31 goals in the league, including both of Blackburn's goals in an early April win over Manchester United at Ewood Park.
After a highly successful spell in Scotland last season and spending pre-season with Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers' relationship with the Reds - in terms of loans - is paying off again with Owen Beck.
At Ewood Park, Blackburn went 1–0 up but Burnley scored twice in the closing stages. Burnley were promoted to the Premier League at the end of the 2013–14 season but went down the following year. Burnley did the double over Rovers on their return to the second tier and also won the first ever League Cup meeting between both teams in 2017.