Maine Road
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Key facts
- Location
- Moss Side , Manchester , England
- Owner
- Manchester City
- Operator
- Manchester City, (1923–2003)
- Capacity
- 35,150 (at closure), 84,569 (record)
- Renovated
- 1931, 1957, 1970, 1994
- Construction cost
- £100,000
- Architect
- Charles Swain
- Structural engineer
- Sir Robert McAlpine
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Maine Road was a football stadium in Moss Side, Manchester, England, that was home to Manchester City from 1923 to 2003. It hosted FA Cup semi-finals, the Charity Shield, a League Cup final and England matches. Maine Road's highest attendance of 84,569 was set in 1934 at an FA Cup sixth round match between Manchester City and Stoke City, a record for an English club ground.
At the time of its closure in 2003, Maine Road was an all-seater stadium with a capacity of 35,150 and of haphazard design with stands of varying heights due to the ground being renovated several times over its 80-year history. The following season Manchester City moved to the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, a mile from the city centre and near Ardwick, where the club originally formed in 1880.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maine Road” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.