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Molineux Stadium
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football stadium
Key facts
- Full name
- Molineux Stadium
- Location
- Waterloo Road, Wolverhampton
- Owner
- Wolverhampton Council
- Operator
- Wolverhampton Wanderers
- Capacity
- 31,750
- Surface
- Desso GrassMaster
- Field size
- 105 by 68 metres (115 by 74 yd)
- Public transit
- Wolverhampton St. George's (0.6 mi), Wolverhampton (0.7 mi)
- Renovated
- 1978–1979; 1991–1993; 2011–2012
- Architect
- Current design - Alan Cotterell Partnership, Redevelopment - AFL
- Main contractors
- Current design - Alfred McAlpine , Redevelopment - Buckingham Group
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Encyclopedic overview
The Billy Wright (1924–1994) statue outside Molineux Molineux Stadium (/ˈmɒlɪnjuː/ MOL-i-new) is a football stadium situated in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It has been the home ground of Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers since 1889. The first stadium built for use by a Football League club, it was one of the first British grounds to have floodlights installed and hosted some of the earliest European club games in the 1950s.
At the time of its multi-million pound renovation in the early 1990s, Molineux was one of the biggest and most modern stadia in England, though it has since been eclipsed by other ground developments. The stadium has hosted England internationals and, more recently, England under-21 internationals, as well as the first UEFA Cup Final in 1972.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Molineux Stadium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.