Ayresome Park was a football stadium in the United Kingdom, and was the home of Middlesbrough F.C. from it's construction in time for the 1903/1904 season, until the Riverside Stadium opened in 1995. Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Middlesbrough Football Club are an English football team, commonly known as The Boro. They are currently in the FA Premier League. ... The Riverside Stadium has been the home of Middlesbrough F.C. since the beginning of the English Division One season 1994-95. ...

Middlesbrough had previously played at Linthorpe Road, but a move to the football league meant that an improved stadium was required. Ayresome Park was built at Paradise Field, adjacent to the old stadium of Middlesbrough Ironopolis, who had played in the football league in the 1893/1894 season. The Football League is an organisation representing 72 professional football clubs in England and Wales, and runs the oldest professional football league competition in the world. ... Middlesbrough Ironopolis Football Club was an English association football team which briefly played in The Football League in the 1890s. ...

The highest attendance at the ground, of 53802, was set on December 27th 1949, when Middlesbrough played local rivals Newcastle United. Ayresome Park was also one of the venues for the 1966 Football World Cup. Three games were played at the ground, involving the Soviet Union, North Korea, Italy and Chile. North Korea famously beat Italy 1-0 at the ground to knock one of the biggest footballing nations out of the World Cup, progresssing to the quarter-finals in the process. However, the attendances at Ayresome Park were the lowest in the entire tournament, with just 15,887 fans at the game for North Korea versus Chile. For the Australian soccer club see Newcastle United (Australia). ... 1966 was the year that the Football World Cup went back to the country that conceived football: England. ...

By the early 1990s the stadium was old and clearly in need of major work to bring it upto date, and the demands of the Taylor Report meant that either renovation or a new stadium was requried if Middlesbrough were to secure a place in the new Premier League. The final game at Ayresome Park was played against Luton Town on April 30th 1995 in match which Boro won 2-1. Before the game, many of Middlesbrough's old players were paraded around the pitch, in a lap of honour. Boro won promotion at the end of the season, meaning their next season would be played at the Riverside Stadium in the Premiership . The Taylor Report is a document, whose development was overseen by Lord Justice Taylor, concerning the aftermath and causes of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. ... The FA Premier League (often referred to as the Barclays English Premier League for sponsorship reasons) comprises the top 20 football clubs in the league system of English football. ... Luton Town F.C. are an English football team based in the town of Luton. ...

Ayresome Park was demolished in 1996 and a housing estate now occupies the site.

World Cup 1966 Matches at Ayresome Park

• North Korea 0 Soviet Union 3
• North Korea 1 Chile 1
• Italy 0 North Korea 1