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Key facts
- Address
- 52-56 Harry Potts Way
- Location
- Burnley , Lancashire , England, BB10 4BX
- Owner
- Burnley F.C.
- Operator
- Burnley F.C.
- Capacity
- 21,944
- Surface
- Desso GrassMaster
- Record attendance
- 54,775 (Burnley vs Huddersfield Town , 23 February 1924)
- Field size
- 105 by 68 metres (114.8 yd × 74.4 yd)
- Opened
- 17 February 1883
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stadium
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Burnley
- Owned by
- Burnley F.C.
- Operator
- Burnley F.C.
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- Turf Moor panorama.jpg
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- Commons category
- Turf Moor
- maximum capacity
- 22546
- occupant
- Burnley F.C.
- date of official opening
- 1883-02-17
- surface played on
- Desso GrassMaster
- inception
- 1883-02-17
- associated electoral district
- Burnley
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Encyclopedic overview
Turf Moor is an association football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire, England, which has been the home of Burnley F.C. since 1883. This unbroken service makes Turf Moor the second-longest continuously used ground in English professional football. The stadium is situated on Harry Potts Way, named after the manager who won the 1959–60 First Division with the club, and has a capacity of 21,944.
The Turf Moor site has been used for sporting activities since at least 1843, when Burnley Cricket Club moved to the area. In 1883, they invited Burnley to use a pitch adjacent to the cricket field. The first grandstand was not built until 1885, while terraces were also added to each end of the ground in the same year. Between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s, all stands were rebuilt. Turf Moor underwent further refurbishment during the 1990s, when the Longside and the Bee Hole End terraces were replaced by all-seater stands following the recommendations of the Taylor Report. The ground comprises four stands: the Bob Lord Stand, the Cricket Field Stand, the North Stand and the Jimmy McIlroy Stand.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turf Moor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.