Valley Parade, currently known under a naming-rights contract as the Intersonic Stadium (previously the Bradford & Bingley Stadium), is the home stadium of Bradford City football club in the built up area of Manningham, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is not to be confused with The Valley, the home stadium of Charlton Athletic. 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Bradford City Association Football Club are an English football team based at Valley Parade, otherwise known as The Intersonic Stadium (previously Bradford & Bingley Stadium), due to stadium sponsorship in Bradford. ... Bradford City Association Football Club are an English football team based at Valley Parade, otherwise known as The Intersonic Stadium (previously Bradford & Bingley Stadium), due to stadium sponsorship in Bradford. ... Manningham is an area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, approximately a mile north of the city centre and is seen as the centre of the citys south Asian population. ... The larger City of Bradford Metropolitan District includes other settlements in the surrounding area. ... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the  United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total 130... The Valley is a 27,111-capacity football stadium in Charlton, London. ... Charlton Athletic Football Club is a football club based in Charlton, South East London. ...

The club does not own Valley Parade itself and in 2004 narrowly escaped being forced to move. ^[1] The stadium has a current seating capacity of 25,136, making it the largest in the English football League Two. shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Seating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, either in terms of the space available, or in terms of limitations set by law. ... This is a partial list of English football stadia, ranked in descending order of capacity. ... Football League Two (often referred to as League Two for short or Coca-Cola Football League 2 for sponsorship reasons) is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system. ...

It is situated on the side of a valley (as the name of the road on which it is located, 'Valley Parade', suggests). The downward slope of the valley side runs from west to east, meaning that the west side of the stadium is cut into the valley side, whilst the east side is raised above the sloping surface.

The Stands

The stadium is divided into five stands, known as the Carlsberg Stand, Sunwin Stand, Pulse Family Stand, TL Dallas Stand and East Stand. Note: Carling beer is not produced by the Carlsberg brewery. ... The Pulse is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting from Bradford. ...

Some of the current official stand names come from naming rights of sponsors, and do not reflect their more traditional names. For instance, the Carlsberg Stand is traditionally known as the Kop End (the name derived, like many other home ends in stadiums around the UK, from the famous Spion Kop). Combatants Great Britain Boers Commanders Charles Warren Alexander Thorneycroft Louis Botha Strength 11,000 infantry 2,200 cavalry 36 field guns 6,000 men Casualties 383 killed 1,000 wounded 300 captured 58 killed 140 wounded The Battle of Spion Kop (Afrikaans: Slag van Spioenkop) was fought about 38 km...

The Sunwin Stand is known as the Main Stand.

The TL Dallas Stand is traditionally known as the Bradford End, it being the closest stand to Bradford city centre. It is often remembered lovingly by older fans for the time when the Bradford End was used by home supporters.

Although it has no real traditional name assigned to it (given its age), the Pulse Family Stand is known to some fans as the North West Corner.

The East Stand is also known traditionally as the Midland Road Stand (after the road on which it sits). The East Stand currently has no sponsor, after its previous sponsorship deal ended before the 2006/2007 season.

The upgraded Sunwin and Carlsberg Stands and the new Pulse Family Stand are the most recent constructions to take place at the ground (the Sunwin Stand being the last of the three to be completed in 2001). The Sunwin and Carlsberg Stands are both large, two-tiered stands. The Sunwin Stand is unusual in that it only runs roughly three-quarters the length of the playing area. The rest of this side is taken up by a brick building, situated in the south west corner of the stadium, which houses the club changing rooms and the security offices. The Sunwin and Carlsberg Stands are connected by the large, two-tiered corner section, the Pulse Family Stand. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The four newest stands (the East Stand, the Carlsberg Stand, the Pulse Family Stand and the Sunwin Stand) contain internal concourses, which include such facilities as food and drink kiosks, betting kiosks and TV screens, usually showing highlights from previous Bradford City games, or the dedicated sports channel Sky Sports News. The Sunwin Stand also houses the stadium's hospitality and banqueting suites, the stadium's private boxes and most of the stadium's media facilities. The top end of the bottom tier of the Carlsberg Stand is dedicated to the Bantams Bar area, a separate area which incorporates its own comfier seats and indoor bar and betting kiosk. The centre of the East Stand, at the very back, is home to any TV cameras which may be filming a match or highlights of a match on a matchday. The TL Dallas Stand is the oldest and smallest of the five stands, and as such facilities are limited. It does not have an internal concourse, and food and drink is served from a Portakabin style tea bar located on the bottom tier of the stand, just below the electronic scoreboard. Sky Sports News (SSN) is a 24-hour sports news channel in the United Kingdom. ... A luxury box or luxury suite is a special seating section in arenas and stadiums. ... A Portakabin is a relocatable, stackable temporary building, most often used as site offices on a building site, or anywhere else where constructing an office is not practicle or is pointless. ...

Panoramic view of Valley Parade, taken from the Sunwin Stand. From left to right: the Carlsberg Stand, the East Stand and the TL Dallas Stand.

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Fan Placement

The Carlsberg Stand is the home end of the ground where the most vociferous fans usually congregate, with home fans also using the bottom tier of the Sunwin Stand, the bottom tier of the Pulse Family Stand, and a section of the East Stand. Away fans are usually seated in the TL Dallas Stand. If a large away following is predicted, the club can open up a section of the East Stand for use by away fans. Away fans in the past have also been seated in the top tier of the Sunwin Stand and the Pulse Family Stand, although it is likely that these will remain one-off occasions, as they resulted in incidents of violence between home and away fans.

Valley Parade Fire

On May 11, 1985, a crowd of over 11,000 were celebrating Bradford City winning the Football League Third Division championship, equivalent to the post-2004 Football League One, and watching the final game of the season, against Lincoln City F.C. The trophy was presented before the game, and they were looking forward to the next season when they would be playing in their highest level in the English football league system since 1937. The Bradford City Fire Disaster occurred on Saturday May 11, 1985 when a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford, England. ... May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (132nd in leap years). ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... From the 1992-93 to the 2003-04 season, the Football League Third Division was the third-highest division of The Football League and the fourth-highest division in the overall English football league system. ... Football League One (often referred to as League One for short or Coca-Cola Football League 1 for sponsorship reasons) is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system. ... Lincoln City F.C. are an English football team currently playing in Football League Two (the fourth tier of the English football league system). ... The English football league system, otherwise known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in England (although for historical reasons a small number of Welsh clubs also compete). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Shortly before half-time, a fire broke out in the space beneath the seating in the 80-year-old wooden Sunwin Stand, believed to have been caused by a dropped cigarette igniting an accumultation of litter. The fire spread very rapidly, quickly engulfing the entire structure of the stand in flames and dense smoke, and causing a mass panic.

Ultimately, the fire killed 56 spectators ranging from small children to the 86-year-old former chairman of the club. The few existing narrow escape routes in some cases led to locked doors, and the only escape for most spectators was directly onto the field. The match was duly abandoned and was never replayed.

It was something of an irony that the old wooden roof to the stand was actually due to be replaced the very next day, as it did not meet the safety regulations required for the Division the team would be playing in the following season.

This disaster is marked by annual remembrance ceremonies on the anniversary, and an annual Easter-weekend youth tournament drawing teams from across Europe as well as from Bradford and Lincoln. The Bradford City Fire Disaster occurred on Saturday May 11, 1985 when a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford, England. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ...

The disaster also proved to be the catalyst for the movement towards greater public safety in British sports venues, which intensified still further after the Hillsborough disaster a few years later. The dead are also remembered by a plaque at today's rebuilt Sunwin Stand. The Memorial at Hillsborough. ...

During the following season, Bradford's home games were played at Elland Road, Leeds Road (The old Huddersfield Town F.C. stadium) and Odsal Stadium. For the first part of the 1986-87 season fixtures were played at Odsal Stadium before the team returned to the rebuilt Valley Parade in December 1986 with a friendly fixture against the England national side. The first competitive fixture at the rebuilt stadium was against Derby County which Bradford lost 1-0. Following the fire, the stadium did not reopen again until December 14, 1986 and is now rebuilt to far more stringent safety standards than before. Elland Road is the home stadium of the football team Leeds United. ... Former home ground of Huddersfield Town A.F.C. from 1908 to 1994 Home of Huddersfield Giants rugby league club from 1992-1994 This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Huddersfield Town Football Club is an English football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, currently playing in Coca-Cola League One, and are managed by Andy Ritchie. ... Odsal Stadium is a stadium situated in Bradford in the northern English county of West Yorkshire. ... is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...

Bradford's twin city, the German town of Hamm, donated a memorial with all the names the victims, cast in relief on it, soon after the disaster. Map of Germany showing Hamm Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...

Rugby League

The stadium was briefly shared with Bradford's biggest Rugby League club, Bradford Bulls during the 2001 and 2002 Super League (Europe) seasons. This was due to the proposed development of the Bulls' home ground Grattan Stadium (formerly known as Odsal Stadium), however a full re-development never took place and instead only minor changes were made to the stadium in the south of the city. However, whilst playing at Valley Parade the Bulls won the 2001 Super League Title and the 2002 World Club Challenge Title. Rugby league football (often shortened to rugby league) is a full-contact team sport played with a prolate spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. ... Bradford Bulls is a professional rugby league club based in the city of Bradford, England. ... Super League (Europe) began in March 1996 and is the only full-time professional rugby league competition operating in the northern hemisphere. ... Odsal Stadium is a stadium situated in Bradford in the northern English county of Yorkshire. ... The 2005 WCC logo. ...

Record Attendances

The record attendance at Valley Parade was 39,146, against Burnley for the FA Cup 4th Round, 11th March, 1911.^[2] This was the year when Bradford City's run in the FA Cup went through to the final, where they triumphed in a replay at Old Trafford against Newcastle United. Burnley Football Club are a professional football club based in Burnley, in north-east Lancashire, England. ... The 1911 FA Cup Final was contested by Bradford City and Newcastle United at Crystal Palace. ... Old Trafford (given the nickname The Theatre of Dreams by Sir Bobby Charlton) is a football stadium in the Greater Manchester borough of Trafford, and is the home of Manchester United F.C.. The ground has been Uniteds permanent home since 1910, bar an eight year absence from 1941... For the Australian soccer club see Newcastle United (Australia). ...

The record modern all-seated attendance record at Valley Parade was 22,057, set against Liverpool in the Premiership on 1st May 2001. Liverpool Football Club are an English professional football club based in Liverpool, who play in the Premier League; they are historically the most successful club in English football, having won more trophies than any other English club. ... The original FA Premier League logo, used until 2007 The Premier League (officially known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons, previously known as The Premiership), is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top echelon of the English football league system (above The Football League). ...

References

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External links

• BBC historical story on the disaster

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