Old Trafford Stadium, called the “Theater of Dreams,” was built by Bobby Charlton football stadium English, located in the Trafford borough of Manchester, England.
Old Trafford has a capacity of seventy-six thousand two hundred and twelve spectators, and is considered the second largest stadium in terms of capacity for the number of fans in England after Wembley. The stadium is about 0.8 kilometers from Old Trafford Cricket Ground and is adjacent to the Manchester Metrolink tram station.
The stadium is the home ground of Manchester United Club, and it has been the club’s stadium since 1910, with the exception of eight years from 1941 to 1949, when it was destroyed due to the events of World War II.
During that period, the club shared with its traditional rival, Manchester City, the Main Road Stadium, and the stadium’s capacity was increased in the nineties of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.
One of the most important increases that was made was adding layers to the northern, eastern and western sides so that the stadium regains the capacity to accommodate 80,000 spectators. In the future, an additional layer can be added to the southern side of the stadium to bring its capacity to 90,000 spectators.
The highest attendance at the stadium in its entire history was in 1939, when 76,962 spectators attended the FA Cup semi-final match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimpsey Town.
Manchester United has a great past, as they won more league titles than any other team in England, 12 FA Cups and three European Cups, and they included the best players in the history of football, but for a long time they traded in their past despite their successive failures and the progress and development of all the teams around them.
Old Trafford is considered the largest club stadium in Britain, but it quickly became a symbol of United’s decline and the ridicule of some rival fans, who chanted “Old Trafford is falling.” The stadium has not undergone any major modernization since 2006 and has fallen into disrepair while United’s rivals have shiny stadiums.
United were well ahead of their rivals when it came to their stadium in the 1990s but Old Trafford’s capacity was reduced from 60,000 to 44,000 after the Taylor Report recommended that all British stadiums become all-seater in response to the Hillsborough disaster, so the North Stand was demolished in 1995 and a stand built. Three-tier giant in 1995 and increased capacity to 55,000.
United had the largest stadium in the country and increasing ticket revenues fueled their success in the 1990s, culminating in a historic treble win in 1999. The club felt the need to continue to grow, and by 2001, they had added second-tier stands behind both goals, raising the capacity to 67,000. It meant that United could count on nearly 30,000 more seats than Arsenal, their closest rival at the time, and 22,000 more seats than historic rival Liverpool.
The club undertook a further modernization by filling in the corners of the North Stand in 2006, raising the capacity to more than 75,000 seats. This meant that United’s stadium was among the largest stadiums in Europe, on par with Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena and San Siro and trailing only the Santiago Bernabeu. And Camp Nou.
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