Key facts
- Location
- Pittodrie Street, Aberdeen , Scotland
- Owner
- Aberdeen F.C.
- Capacity
- 20,866
- Surface
- Grass
- Field size
- 109 yd × 72 yd (100 m × 66 m)
- Opened
- 2 September 1899
- Renovated
- 1993 (Richard Donald Stand opened)
- Construction cost
- £4.5 million (Richard Donald stand)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- association football venue
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Aberdeen City
- Owned by
- Aberdeen F.C.
- Location
- Aberdeen
- Sport
- association football
- Official website
- www.afc.co.uk/club/pittodrie-stadium
- Image
- Drone - Aberdeen FC.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pittodrie Stadium
- maximum capacity
- 21421
- date of official opening
- 1899-09-02
- historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- inception
- 1899-09-02
- associated electoral district
- Aberdeen South
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Pittodrie Stadium, commonly referred to as Pittodrie, from which the surrounding residential area has taken its name, is an all-seater stadium in Aberdeen, Scotland. Used primarily for football, it has been the home ground of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) club Aberdeen F.C. since they were formed in 1903. Prior to then, the ground hosted the original Aberdeen F.C. from 1899 until the merger that created the present club.
With a seating capacity of 20,866 Pittodrie is the fourth largest stadium in the SPFL and the largest stadium in Scotland outside the Central Belt. Pittodrie has been the location of a number of firsts in the field of stadium design, including the invention of the dugout, and in 1978 became one of the first all-seater stadium in the United Kingdom.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pittodrie Stadium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.