Edgeley Park
View from Cheadle End
Full name	Edgeley Park Stadium
Location	Hardcastle Road, Stockport, Greater Manchester
Built	1901
Opened	1901
Owner
Tenants	Stockport County F.C., Sale Sharks
Capacity	10,852
Field dimensions	111 x 71 yards

Edgeley Park is the home of Stockport County Football Club and Sale Sharks rugby union club. It is located in Edgeley, south-west of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England, and has a capacity of 10,852 seats. It is now over 100 years old and has seen on its hallowed turf many of football's greats, including George Best, who played for Stockport County in 1975. Stockport is a large town in the north west of England. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Stockport County Football Club are an English football club based in Stockport, England. ... Official website www. ... Stockport County Football Club are an English football club based in Stockport, England. ... Official website www. ... For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ... Edgeley is a mainly residential, blue collar neighbourhood within the town of Stockport. ... Stockport is a large town in the north west of England. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish football player best known for his years with Manchester United. ...

The stadium was built in 1901 and first served Stockport Rugby Club, a rugby league side, before Stockport County moved there in 1902^[1]. The stadium has had a lot of developments, but most recent is the impressive Cheadle End. Built in 1995 it holds 5,250 and has 2 large conference rooms plus many other modern facilities. In 2001 the Railway End was fitted with seats and brought the capacity to an all-seater 10,852. The ground is a typically northern type, but has a modern feeling to it with the recently added Cheadle End. Rugby league football (usually shortened to rugby league, football, league) is a full-contact team sport played with a prolate spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. ...

Approximate Stand Capacities

• Cheadle End - 5,250
• Main Stand - 2,100
• Popular Side - 2,150
• Railway End - 1,350

Stockport County announced in March 2008 their intention to buy the ground from the owners Sale Sharks under the terms of a buy-back clause in the tenancy agreement.

A website wwww.groundforapound.com was set up, with the intention of selling 1 million pixels on the site for £1. The funds raised are to be used as a deposit to buy the ground back along with a commercial mortgage.

Within a week of the www.groundforapound.com campaign launching, over 50,000 pixels had been sold.

If County do succeed in buying their ground, one pixel buyer will have a stand named after them!

Trivia

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• Edgeley Park was the venue for the final of the 1978 World Lacrosse Championship.
• The ground once held two matches by the England international football team on the same day. On the 14 January 1958 the England squad were due to play training matches at Maine Road, but the pitch was frozen. Edgeley Park's pitch was fine so it was decided to hold the matches in Stockport instead. The first game saw England draw 2-2 with a Manchester City XI, and the second saw the England senior side defeat the England U23 side 1-0.
• The floodlight system was first used with an opening friendly match against Fortuna '54 Geleen of the Netherlands on 16 October 1956, whose side included four members of the Dutch national team that had defeated Belgium the previous week.
• The original timber Main Stand was destroyed in a fire in 1935, taking most of the club's records with it.
• The record attendance is 27,833, when Liverpool visited Stockport in the 5th round of the FA Cup in 1950.
• Chester City played a home Rumbelows Cup tie against Manchester City at Edgeley Park on 8 October 1991, owing to safety concerns regarding their temporary Moss Rose home ^[2].

Edgeley Park

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References

External links

• Edgeley Park History
• Internet Football Ground Guide section for Edgeley Park

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