Craven Cottage
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Key facts
- Full name
- Craven Cottage
- Location
- Stevenage Road, Fulham , London , SW6 6HH
- Owner
- Fulham
- Operator
- Fulham
- Capacity
- 28,800
- Surface
- Grass (Fibrelastic)
- Record attendance
- 49,335 (8 October 1938)
- Field size
- 100 by 65 metres (109.4 yd × 71.1 yd)
- Public transit
- Putney Bridge ; Hammersmith ; Parsons Green ; East Putney
- Built
- 1780 (as a cottage)
- Opened
- 1896 (as a stadium)
- Architect
- Archibald Leitch
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- association football venue
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Fulham
- Owned by
- Fulham F.C.
- Operator
- Fulham F.C.
- Location
- Fulham
- Sport
- rugby league
- Image
- Craven Cottage Football Ground - geograph.org.uk - 778731.jpg
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- architect
- Archibald Leitch
- Commons category
- Craven Cottage
- occupant
- London Broncos
- maximum capacity
- 25700
- date of official opening
- 1896-00-00
- inception
- 1780-00-00
- historic county
- Middlesex
- surface played on
- lawn
- associated electoral district
- Chelsea and Fulham
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Encyclopedic overview
Panorama View from the Johnny Haynes Stand Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham F.C. since 1896. The ground's capacity is 29,589; the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall in 1938. Next to Bishop's Park on the banks of the River Thames, it was originally a royal hunting lodge and has a history dating back over 300 years.
The stadium has also been used by national teams and was formerly the home ground for rugby league club Fulham RLFC.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Craven Cottage” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.