I worked as a match day steward at Feethams (Darlington) 1998-2000. Then had a season ticket in the east stand (one with all the seats) 2002-2004 before Darlo moved to the horrendous "Reynolds Arena" in 2004
Champion Hill is still very much in use - by Dulwich Hamlet, Fisher FC, and Millwall Ladies. Remember that the current Champion Hill is the old training pitch - the old Champion Hill, the famous old ground you're referring to is next door and now has a Sainbury's standing on top of it.
Troopz I agree but some of these clubs would have gone out of business due to debts they would have to repay. Fastest way to do that is sell the ground to developers or in the case of bigger clubs like Bolton building a bigger ground would need financing too
How about instead of letting these stadiums rot and be wasted, let the common people play on them. There's tons of kids that would love to play inside of a stadium. I sure would! And i'm 19! What a waster of resources... >_>
Hull was a hub of the fishing industry until the EU took control! All the more reason why proud indigenous Brits like myself are members of the British National Front! Now get your facts right Lady! Shape up or ship out!
They built some houses in the area. If you go on Google maps street view now there are a bunch of houses but if you put it on 2008 there is just a field with some floodlights and one of the stands
@@spudefc1886 in the 90s, they had to put some shops like Iceland and Kwik Fit near Boothferry because they were losing money and needed financial support due to multiple relegations (they nearly got promoted to the top flight in 1986 and almost became non-league in 1998)
I'm from darlington and I think it's so stupid how teams leave there grounds we were a solid league 2 side that pushed for promotion every season and the we decided to build a 25,000 seated stadium what was the point we were in league 2 and would never have been able to afford it now we are playing in the 8th tier of English football with no stadium we don't even play I'm darlington anymore just a football club ruined by one stupid owner
This is what scares me being a luton fan. We need to move to improve but im scared we're going to end up like Darlington. I hope we settle for a modest 15,000 nothing fancy.
Niall Garner - I wouldnt worry about a stadium - if 15yrs Luton will be a complete utter Islamic shithole. It will take blood on the streets to change that
I mourn the passing of any clubs old ground. Even with the subsequent 'face lifts' that many have had over the last 20 - 30 yrs, once they've gone it's another nail in the coffin of how we remembered football. (50 this year!)
"a sad but chilling insite into the financial times of the football world today" Half of these stadiums are from teams that have moved into big, fancy new stadiums. Hardly a chilling insite [sic]
No he's talking about real atmosphere not like nowadays with people like the prawn sandwich brigade and people who take selfie sticks to a football game
It just makes me wonder who owns these places.. and why are they not used for something else than football nowadays? The stadiums are just left to rot, lose their value and destroy cityscape. What a waste... Most of these could be renovated and maintained with quite little money.
This video is so sad, these were the grounds that epitomize the great and unique atmosphere of brittish football, most of new stadiums are souless with no passion inside, and now the Boleyn Ground joins this list
Great compilation but sad to see all these old grounds that had character, stadiums these days look identical. East terrace at the Vetch Field had a great atmosphere.
They pulled down the WHU ground to house Muslims. Or the very rich. not sure who will get the houses there. Why dont they turn the into allotments for the people to use and rent .
I do not think that Ninian Park is "abandoned". Since during the time the picture was taken, they were in the middle of recycling all steel and aluminum. A task that is a major construction project for which companies bid on!
When the price is right, these sites will be for housing...not affordable but luxury dwellings when the premier league formed it wax always going to be sucking money from the lower leagues and in the past when lower teams had a few good players from their ranks they could sell them and make money. .now no locals can get a chance higher up, as all players bought are foreigners. The old league was stronger all-round now the league is top heavy.
Didn't they get relegated after moving there? Best ground in the fourth division, and enough seats that every fan could have fifteen each. Total madness!
Went to see Kingstonian play Colchester United at Layer road in the 1991/92 season. FA trophy 1st round game. Kingstonian drew 2-2, which was a bit of a shock at the time as Colchester were in the Vauxhall conference and K’s were in the Isthmian league, a league below.
Just to point out Chris you’ve got it wrong about firs park , it is not the former Home of Falkirk FC , but was the home of East Stirlingshire FC , There are Two teams in Falkirk , East Stirlingshire currently ground share with nearby Stenhousemuir FC and play in the Lowland league of Scottish football
In them days every football ground was different. Now their all the same. In fact every stand was different. Many were shit holes. All had character. Missed. Maybe.
Loved Boothferry Park. Been to a fair few of these grounds, while a lot were in need of repair I never thought the Victoria Ground was that bad, always seemed too decent to be knocked down. Maybe a Stokie knows different??
A couple of stands from Scarborough's McCain Stadium ended up at Featherstone Rovers Rugby League ground. Slough Town's ground was a real waste. It sat empty and unused for years while the club had to play at Windsor and at Beaconsfield, only to return to Slough a couple of years ago after a 14 year (prepared to be corrected) absence to Arbour Park. The Feltham arena looked like this before it was closed ! - the roof was removed around 1995, but the stadium stayed in use until about 2003 (the last time I played there). And just to mention from my house I can see the glow from the floodlights from the (old) Den. Millwall's old lights now gracing Ash United.
You should do this video again and add Celtic Park to that list. Recently over the last couple of seasons there have been more SEATS at the game than fans.
@Scott M not in the last 2 yis got fucked rotten by the Rangers funny they say Rangers are dead yet no obituary to ibrox here maybe they just got demoted 🇬🇧
Supported Millwall since my first match in 1962 and visited Boothferry/Burnden/Victoria Ground?Newport ( Somerton) and Slough and 78 other grounds and how I miss the individual character of Roker Park and The Victoria Ground , Upton Park and Bolton and even Highbury and my team moved in 1993 to a soulless,sanitised, silent Stadium and the atmosphere is a fraction of what it used to be. These fans have lost the choice to stand,The Working-Class who provided the atmosphere have , largely, been replaced and these grounds have a fraction of their old atmosphere. So sad but it's "progress" innit ! INNIT ??
Wow. What a video. It really does seem like yesterday that I watched Carlisle United open the 1996/97 season at Belle view Doncaster. I can’t believe the ‘ghosts’ provoked by the video. I lived in Hull as a student. I recall at the Boothferry park away end watching two young Wrexham kids run around play fighting each other. They will be around 30 now! So many memories. I love the music. Many thanks
I still call Swansea's ground Vetch Field and in my mind Chesterfield still play at Saltergate. Back in junior all the lads knew the names of the 92 league grounds. That was nearly 40 years ago and I suspect that now they don't know that there is life outside the top division.
Those old grounds really had character and atmosphere,whatever they lacked in facilities and safety. Never went to the Vetch Field (been once to Swansea's new place) but that looked like a really quirky ground!
I totally agree man, I'm a Col U fan and even though our new stadium is nice the crowds are shit! Even the atmosphere isn't half of what it was at Layer Road. In my opinion they should've spent the money on doing up the old ground. At least there we got crowds of 4000-5000 every week, now we get 3000 on a good day (which is rare being Col U lol)
gandhi590 Unfortunately. That happens to most clubs. The new grounds are so sterile. I'm so glad that my club, Bristol City are developing Ashton Gate.
Yeah I went there earlier this season and as soon as that 4th stand is built it'll be one of the nicest grounds i've been to, your crowds are decent too!
As playing through derby county academy for 9 years and getting released at 16 i personally think any football stadium left to literally fall down, personally think should be kept in good knick and be used for the kids of today to progress in there football career or be used as football summer camps instead of using public park this would keep the ground good with a percent took of what the price is for a football camp..........
What gets me the most about these abandoned grounds is the advertising hoardings left behind like time stood still. Fisher athletic’s ground was a sad one as well, I saw Barnet get promoted there in the 1990/91 season.
That well beats me. I only got to go to matches at 3 of them: Boothferry Park,Ninian Park and Plough Lane. Other grounds no longer there or in use I did go to: Fellows Park (Walsall),Highbury (Arsenal),Maine Road (Manchester City),Roker Park (Sunderland),Ayresome Park (Middlesbrough),the Goldstone Ground (Brighton),the Manor Ground (Oxford),the old Den (Millwall),Filbert Street (Leicester),Millmoor (Rotherham) and at least 5 visits to West Ham's Upton Park.
Great video mate been to quite a few of them holds fond memories esp Aylesbury utd, I still go there from time to time such a waste of a lovely non league stadium.
Plough lane. I used to go there with my grandad to watch vinnie Jones and Denny wise. Followed by pie, mash and liqueur then back for the dogs. Good times.
If there's one abandoned stadium you missed it's Cathkin Park on the south side of Glasgow. There are parts of the terracing which are still maintained although next year it'll be 50 years since Third Lanark folded. As a teenager going to nearby Hampden in the mid-70s I passed by the ground and the stand and pavilion had still to be demolished although the vandals were already making their presence felt. Actually the ground hasn't been entirely abandoned as Third Lanark Amateurs still play games there I believe.
only england? you must put an all europe and PANATHINAIKOS old stadium,APOSTOLOS LIKOLAIDIS (LEOFOROS ALEXANDRAS STADIUM). its the older stadium in greece and was abandoned for 11 yers. nowadays (2014) they repair it and now this is the panathinaikos ground now
It makes me sad to watch this. I visited most of these grounds and they were unique. Stand added here when a player was sold or they got promoted. You can go to 1 new ground and say you have been to them all. It's the same flat-pack design. People like jonny rotten are 100% correct these grounds were historical buildings and WE let them knock them down. Modern Life is Rubbish!
Lazy, Lazy , Lazy poms.If this was in New Zealand , I would have kept one of these grounds for myself and mowed it every week for my own use.Would be great being a kid with his own stadium. I would have it in mint condition.You can always find free old paint too.Just a bit of labour involved. "Com'on you pommie bastards , get off the couch !"
Funny hoggy2much999 I don't know why you care so much about Celtic if you are a Rangers Fan you should really be worrying about your own team right now as it is looking very much like you may yet again be going into administration and there are no 3rd chances….on an even lighter note type in "Best fans in the world" on youtube and you will see Celtic but you will not see Rangers. Wonder why that is….oh I remember because of what happened in Manchester. This is found under "Scotland's Shame" on youtube
It's a criminal shame how some of the old grounds have landed up,...I preferred the old stadiums.....now the new stadia are just lifeless bowls, lacking the heritage, identity and atmosphere of the grounds of yesterday year
Sad but what do you expect ,... A groundsman to go round and keep everything in tip top condition!!!! best to knock them down and use the space for kids coaching....ooohh the FA wont like that... helping Grass Roots Football!!!
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It's sad to see the old stadiums disappearing along with some great names the grounds had unlike now.
I worked as a match day steward at Feethams (Darlington) 1998-2000. Then had a season ticket in the east stand (one with all the seats) 2002-2004 before Darlo moved to the horrendous "Reynolds Arena" in 2004
Penrith's old ground was Southend Road. Frenchfields is the current stadium.
i like abandoned places they ringing bells to me
Why 9 years later.
Something is wrong with the algorithm it keeps suggesting videos from the last decade.
Wexham Park, Slough. Still there. Stupid that it's unused.
where are these stadiums located
how about "champion hill" do Dulwich Hamlet still play there? great old ground so much charecter
Champion Hill is still very much in use - by Dulwich Hamlet, Fisher FC, and Millwall Ladies. Remember that the current Champion Hill is the old training pitch - the old Champion Hill, the famous old ground you're referring to is next door and now has a Sainbury's standing on top of it.
DULWICH! DULWICH! DULWICH! DULWICH!
Wow! These stadiums should be turned into football areas for anyone to play!
+Byrie Beckford I am pretty sure the old Centurians ground is now a Goals venue.
I think they should clean them up and open them for the public
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Nice idea, I agree, but ownership, maintenance and safety etc. are factors in play.
Troopz I agree but some of these clubs would have gone out of business due to debts they would have to repay. Fastest way to do that is sell the ground to developers or in the case of bigger clubs like Bolton building a bigger ground would need financing too
Brings a tear to your eye just think a football player could have had has best moments at one of these
Yeah
This video is a reason that I hate modern football so much.
:'(
A lot of grounds I visited in younger days have now gone. It feels like my memories have been trashed.
Ajax has one stadium that still standing. Olympish Stadion who was built in 1928
@Rishab Ghoshal you look 30-40 years too young to remember anything at all about the 70s mate.
Agreed. Modern football has so much to answer for.
@@Torkild2007 it's not a Ajax-stadium ,it's a Olympic-stadium.
Falkirk's old ground was Brockville. Firs Park was East Stirlingshire.
Hate to see basic errors like that. Lazy production.
First Scottish ground I went to was Firs Park.
How about instead of letting these stadiums rot and be wasted, let the common people play on them. There's tons of kids that would love to play inside of a stadium. I sure would! And i'm 19! What a waster of resources... >_>
Exactly, sadly it's not that easy!
Thats what the swnsea coumcil did to the vetch field
Wayne Train sadly it takes money to keep these stadiums open
They're not going to waste a ton of money keeping those things maintained for kids to play on.
just fix the field that's all
Wow. That's the nicest part of Hull I've ever seen. I'm surprised it's not more of an attraction.
Hull was a hub of the fishing industry until the EU took control! All the more reason why proud indigenous Brits like myself are members of the British National Front! Now get your facts right Lady! Shape up or ship out!
Boothferry Park was shocking, it resembled an old shopping centre or run down leisure centre on the outside.
Still there and I passed it the other day. Land is basically worthless so it just rots away each year.
They built some houses in the area. If you go on Google maps street view now there are a bunch of houses but if you put it on 2008 there is just a field with some floodlights and one of the stands
@@spudefc1886 in the 90s, they had to put some shops like Iceland and Kwik Fit near Boothferry because they were losing money and needed financial support due to multiple relegations (they nearly got promoted to the top flight in 1986 and almost became non-league in 1998)
these stadiums probably still have a better atmosphere than Stamford bridge hehe
:P
No the emirates stadium you mean :p I been to both emirates no atmosphere at all
OMG 😂😂😂😂
lol it's not Chelsea anymore it's city and arsenal
That wouldn't be hard 😀
my god.what a really sad video.Visited loads of these grounds following Northampton town in 80s and 90s.Loved the vetch and feethams.
I'm from darlington and I think it's so stupid how teams leave there grounds we were a solid league 2 side that pushed for promotion every season and the we decided to build a 25,000 seated stadium what was the point we were in league 2 and would never have been able to afford it now we are playing in the 8th tier of English football with no stadium we don't even play I'm darlington anymore just a football club ruined by one stupid owner
wow some people are really stupid
This is what scares me being a luton fan. We need to move to improve but im scared we're going to end up like Darlington. I hope we settle for a modest 15,000 nothing fancy.
+Nially G Luton stadium really looks like a relic from History. It's one of the last ones left with that classic British feel. You should preserve it.
Never forget where you watched your football, when it represented the community and we all hoped and dreamed together.
Niall Garner - I wouldnt worry about a stadium - if 15yrs Luton will be a complete utter Islamic shithole.
It will take blood on the streets to change that
At least in those days stadiums had real character. Now they all look the same and are sterile.
Spot on mate. It's tragic when clubs leave their traditional homes to move to lifeless lego stadiums.
Like arsenal, miss highbury : ,(
Identikit soulless boxes.
I mourn the passing of any clubs old ground. Even with the subsequent 'face lifts' that many have had over the last 20 - 30 yrs, once they've gone it's another nail in the coffin of how we remembered football. (50 this year!)
And now Luton Town are in the Premier League watch the prawn sandwich brigade cry
Nice video cheers
Went to the old hull, Chesterfield and Doncaster grounds back in the day. Proper old grounds.
The Gents in the main stand at Saltergate was accessed by stepping over a trough full of liquid.
My first ever Doncaster Rovers match was the last one they ever played at Belle Vue
@@samjane71 at least the one in the main stand had a roof unlike the one behind the kop and I suspect Cross Street too.
Hopefully Wimbledon will have a home game at the New Plough Lane after 25 years of being away from home.
It has...7 years later 😁
They r back there
"a sad but chilling insite into the financial times of the football world today"
Half of these stadiums are from teams that have moved into big, fancy new stadiums. Hardly a chilling insite [sic]
Maybe because these grounds had atmosphere, not like the big fancy stadiums do nowadays
Foo Oof It's that "atmosphere of risk" he's talking about LOL
No he's talking about real atmosphere not like nowadays with people like the prawn sandwich brigade and people who take selfie sticks to a football game
"half" ??? "Half" of these clubs are by new millenium standards completely unrecognizable names, mate....
I'm surprised that Horton Park Avenue (Bradford Park Avenue) wasn't there, it was bigger than most of the ones mentioned in this video
It just makes me wonder who owns these places.. and why are they not used for something else than football nowadays? The stadiums are just left to rot, lose their value and destroy cityscape. What a waste... Most of these could be renovated and maintained with quite little money.
I agree. Think how much a Sunday league team would love a ground like one of these
+Matias Kautto Ninian Park was demolished straight away and turned into housing
+Matias Kautto These aren't current photographs.
most of these would long since have been demolished
Well, that explains at least some of it. :D
This video is so sad, these were the grounds that epitomize the great and unique atmosphere of brittish football, most of new stadiums are souless with no passion inside, and now the Boleyn Ground joins this list
hasn't some of these teams been relegated relegated and demolished
Still more of an atmosphere than Old Trafford!
You know my brother is a man u fan and as a Southampton fan.......I..no words I can't really back them up
Jonathan Wood *Emptihad
Tom Teh Cat *Emptirates :)
Great compilation but sad to see all these old grounds that had character, stadiums these days look identical. East terrace at the Vetch Field had a great atmosphere.
They pulled down the WHU ground to house Muslims. Or the very rich. not sure who will get the houses there. Why dont they turn the into allotments for the people to use and rent .
I actually went to watch my local team kings Lynn at the opening of Aylesburys Buckingham road ground in 1987 I think.Sad to see it like that.
Looks like the McCain Stadium has had it's chips.
Went past there years ago wasn't there a Morrisons nearby
***** No idea if I'm honest, it's one of the grounds I've never been to.
I think it might be a paintball/airsoft range now but idk
martyn bardwell yeah there's one down the road from the old stadium
nice video. but sloughs old ground was Wexham Park not Wrexham Park ;)
where is the stadium of light its always abonded
Robert Newton
lool that's Sik
Love the soundtrack , shame about the abandoned grounds .
I do not think that Ninian Park is "abandoned". Since during the time the picture was taken, they were in the middle of recycling all steel and aluminum. A task that is a major construction project for which companies bid on!
Burnden Park is the same. 12 months after Bolton left, its a shopping complex and has been added to up to this day. Not " abandoned" at all.
When the price is right, these sites will be for housing...not affordable but luxury dwellings when the premier league formed it wax always going to be sucking money from the lower leagues and in the past when lower teams had a few good players from their ranks they could sell them and make money. .now no locals can get a chance higher up, as all players bought are foreigners. The old league was stronger all-round now the league is top heavy.
Yeah firs park was eaststirlingshire I live in falkirk and support falkirk
Feethams was Wembley of the North style class atmosphere you couldn't beat it PURE SHEER CLASS
As an AFCB fan I miss away day to vetch field but the Liberity stadium is a decent away day
You could add Ricoh Arena Coventry City FC SISU OUT
The worst move was Darlington. Feethams was perfect yet they moved to a 25,000 stadium in the middle of nowhere! So sad.
+TOSILENCE77 used to live near the stadium all i heard was yelling from the footy and rugby fans !
Didn't they get relegated after moving there? Best ground in the fourth division, and enough seats that every fan could have fifteen each. Total madness!
***** Yeah, I did that too. Does seem odd that Feethams wasn't brought back into service, doesn't it?
leopold I swear Darlington RA play there now?
EMIN3Mlyrics02912 Do they? I was not aware of that. Well, if they do then that's a good thing.
Went to see Kingstonian play Colchester United at Layer road in the 1991/92 season. FA trophy 1st round game. Kingstonian drew 2-2, which was a bit of a shock at the time as Colchester were in the Vauxhall conference and K’s were in the Isthmian league, a league below.
Just to point out Chris you’ve got it wrong about firs park , it is not the former
Home of Falkirk FC , but was the home of East Stirlingshire FC , There are
Two teams in Falkirk , East Stirlingshire currently ground share with nearby
Stenhousemuir FC and play in the Lowland league of Scottish football
Third Lanark cathkin park is still here 50 years later
Slough Town's old ground was Wexham Park, not WRexham Park!
Ŵhy can they make these stadiums for the youth team
Too much money?
In them days every football ground was different. Now their all the same. In fact every stand was different. Many were shit holes. All had character. Missed. Maybe.
what about celtic park? no ones been there for past 4 years
Fair enough
Really atmospheric and in some cases, sad photos. One thing though-Firs Park is in Falkirk but was actually the ground of East Stirlingshire FC.
mon the shire
Ninian Park - Cardiff City
Last of the old style atmospheric stadiums RIP
Roker Park?
Or Ayresome Park.
Loved Boothferry Park. Been to a fair few of these grounds, while a lot were in need of repair I never thought the Victoria Ground was that bad, always seemed too decent to be knocked down. Maybe a Stokie knows different??
Yes went there in the early 90s,versus west brom,and it looked a fine stadium in good condition.sad to see it go.
mere land banks by developers .. homage will only be paid in street names. pathetic.
Firs Park was not Falkirk's Stadium it was East Stirlingshire FC.
I grew up playing on Feltham arena all the time, so sad what happened to it.
as a boy I used to go and watch my home town Chelmsford play in the Southern League in an older terraced stadium.......lots of fond memories
A couple of stands from Scarborough's McCain Stadium ended up at Featherstone Rovers Rugby League ground.
Slough Town's ground was a real waste. It sat empty and unused for years while the club had to play at Windsor and at Beaconsfield, only to return to Slough a couple of years ago after a 14 year (prepared to be corrected) absence to Arbour Park.
The Feltham arena looked like this before it was closed ! - the roof was removed around 1995, but the stadium stayed in use until about 2003 (the last time I played there).
And just to mention from my house I can see the glow from the floodlights from the (old) Den. Millwall's old lights now gracing Ash United.
That’s very true pal.
Pictures of the ground when shut were extremely hard to come by.
You should do this video again and add Celtic Park to that list.
Recently over the last couple of seasons there have been more SEATS at the game than fans.
hoggy2much999 he he he
@Scott M not in the last 2 yis got fucked rotten by the Rangers funny they say Rangers are dead yet no obituary to ibrox here maybe they just got demoted 🇬🇧
Supported Millwall since my first match in 1962 and visited Boothferry/Burnden/Victoria Ground?Newport ( Somerton) and Slough and 78 other grounds and how I miss the individual character of Roker Park and The Victoria Ground , Upton Park and Bolton and even Highbury and my team moved in 1993 to a soulless,sanitised, silent Stadium and the atmosphere is a fraction of what it used to be.
These fans have lost the choice to stand,The Working-Class who provided the atmosphere have , largely, been replaced and these grounds have a fraction of their old atmosphere. So sad but it's "progress" innit ! INNIT ??
This makes me sad.
Wow. What a video. It really does seem like yesterday that I watched Carlisle United open the 1996/97 season at Belle view Doncaster.
I can’t believe the ‘ghosts’ provoked by the video. I lived in Hull as a student. I recall at the Boothferry park away end watching two young Wrexham kids run around play fighting each other. They will be around 30 now!
So many memories. I love the music.
Many thanks
Some of the pitches I paid for and played on in Sunday league I would have gladly fixed and made playable one of these surfaces, quite sad really...
I still call Swansea's ground Vetch Field and in my mind Chesterfield still play at Saltergate. Back in junior all the lads knew the names of the 92 league grounds. That was nearly 40 years ago and I suspect that now they don't know that there is life outside the top division.
Those old grounds really had character and atmosphere,whatever they lacked in facilities and safety. Never went to the Vetch Field (been once to Swansea's new place) but that looked like a really quirky ground!
Agreed. I knew all the names of the 92 league grounds when I was growing up during the 1980's.
Some of them can be re built
Good to see Wimbledon move back to a new plough lane
Layer road has a housing estate on it now. They should of never of left there in first place. Can't even fill a quarter of there ground now!!
I totally agree man, I'm a Col U fan and even though our new stadium is nice the crowds are shit! Even the atmosphere isn't half of what it was at Layer Road. In my opinion they should've spent the money on doing up the old ground. At least there we got crowds of 4000-5000 every week, now we get 3000 on a good day (which is rare being Col U lol)
gandhi590 Unfortunately. That happens to most clubs. The new grounds are so sterile. I'm so glad that my club, Bristol City are developing Ashton Gate.
Yeah I went there earlier this season and as soon as that 4th stand is built it'll be one of the nicest grounds i've been to, your crowds are decent too!
Remember this folks this was uploaded a few years ago so some have probably been redoveloped by now?
Firs Park was in the town of Falkirk but was the home ground of East Stirlingshire, not Falkirk FC.
As playing through derby county academy for 9 years and getting released at 16 i personally think any football stadium left to literally fall down, personally think should be kept in good knick and be used for the kids of today to progress in there football career or be used as football summer camps instead of using public park this would keep the ground good with a percent took of what the price is for a football camp..........
Bolton's Burnden park wasn't abandoned though, it was made into a retail park after they moved into the Reebok.
The sheer fact that it was turned into something else is beside the point.
What gets me the most about these abandoned grounds is the advertising hoardings left behind like time stood still. Fisher athletic’s ground was a sad one as well, I saw Barnet get promoted there in the 1990/91 season.
NOPE NOPE BELLE VUE MAKES ME EMOTIONAL
Should be given to poorer teams in skrill to be honest
This is cool but sad
My clubs stayed at its home ground Elland Road MOT
Leeds my dad is a Leeds fan
My team Luton are moving stadium :-/
All Leeds aren't we #bestFansInEngland
MOT Calum Hayes
Elland road wants flattening
U.T.O
Are some of them still there abandoned to this day
Jacob Salter I would guess
I live near Edgware and White Lion Ground is still closed
I've been to 16 of these grounds
That well beats me. I only got to go to matches at 3 of them: Boothferry Park,Ninian Park and Plough Lane. Other grounds no longer there or in use I did go to: Fellows Park (Walsall),Highbury (Arsenal),Maine Road (Manchester City),Roker Park (Sunderland),Ayresome Park (Middlesbrough),the Goldstone Ground (Brighton),the Manor Ground (Oxford),the old Den (Millwall),Filbert Street (Leicester),Millmoor (Rotherham) and at least 5 visits to West Ham's Upton Park.
When i look at these feel like going to them with a couple of industrial lawn mowers, a fitbaw, some dudes and having a glorious game 😎
The decline will continue
Very sad watch that.
Great video mate been to quite a few of them holds fond memories esp Aylesbury utd, I still go there from time to time such a waste of a lovely non league stadium.
Plough lane. I used to go there with my grandad to watch vinnie Jones and Denny wise. Followed by pie, mash and liqueur then back for the dogs. Good times.
Did you do the Lambeth walk?
Paul Burns haha. No. That was those scruffy cockney types.
Went to quite a few of those grounds ,great memories never forgotten.
Housing estate on saltergate chesterfield now it’s called spire heights to replicate spireites
They said they would add a memorial but never did
The memorial is at the back of the new ground, old turnstiles etc
very interesting
2:00 Firs Park was East Stirlingshire FC not Falkirk FC. Falkirk used to be Brockville Park which is now a Morrisons supermarket.
Firs Park was East Stirlingshire FC's ground, not Falkirk's
If there's one abandoned stadium you missed it's Cathkin Park on the south side of Glasgow. There are parts of the terracing which are still maintained although next year it'll be 50 years since Third Lanark folded. As a teenager going to nearby Hampden in the mid-70s I passed by the ground and the stand and pavilion had still to be demolished although the vandals were already making their presence felt. Actually the ground hasn't been entirely abandoned as Third Lanark Amateurs still play games there I believe.
Thats one of the most important of the abandoned stadiums! I am really surprised at the omission!
Frenchfields is Penrith's new ground. Southend road was the name of the ground on here.
INCORRECT WITH FIRS PARK, it was NOT Falkirk's Ground, Falkirk's Ground was Brockville, Firs Park was EAST STIRLINGSHIRE !!!
only england? you must put an all europe and PANATHINAIKOS old stadium,APOSTOLOS LIKOLAIDIS (LEOFOROS ALEXANDRAS STADIUM). its the older stadium in greece and was abandoned for 11 yers. nowadays (2014) they repair it and now this is the panathinaikos ground now
Awesome video but also very sad
Makes you sad that a football player might have had a great moment at one these
Anyone know the song?
It makes me sad to watch this. I visited most of these grounds and they were unique. Stand added here when a player was sold or they got promoted. You can go to 1 new ground and say you have been to them all. It's the same flat-pack design. People like jonny rotten are 100% correct these grounds were historical buildings and WE let them knock them down. Modern Life is Rubbish!
Lazy, Lazy , Lazy poms.If this was in New Zealand , I would have kept one of these grounds for myself and mowed it every week for my own use.Would be great being a kid with his own stadium. I would have it in mint condition.You can always find free old paint too.Just a bit of labour involved. "Com'on you pommie bastards , get off the couch !"
well they would been good for some sunday league teams or even some schools in the area
Funny hoggy2much999 I don't know why you care so much about Celtic if you are a Rangers Fan you should really be worrying about your own team right now as it is looking very much like you may yet again be going into administration and there are no 3rd chances….on an even lighter note type in "Best fans in the world" on youtube and you will see Celtic but you will not see Rangers.
Wonder why that is….oh I remember because of what happened in Manchester. This is found under "Scotland's Shame" on youtube
It's a criminal shame how some of the old grounds have landed up,...I preferred the old stadiums.....now the new stadia are just lifeless bowls, lacking the heritage, identity and atmosphere of the grounds of yesterday year
Sad but what do you expect ,... A groundsman to go round and keep everything in tip top condition!!!! best to knock them down and use the space for kids coaching....ooohh the FA wont like that... helping Grass Roots Football!!!
What about Meadow Park - Gloucester City. It drowned under 8 ft of flood water in the Gloucestershire floods 2007???
I couldn't agree more because I went there a few times but luckily they groundshare with Cheltenham now
Wexham park not Wrexham park for slough