Layout of Old Trafford Stadium

Opposite Sir Alex Ferguson's stand is the South Stand, which used to be the main stand of Old Trafford Stadium. Although there is only one stand, it has the largest wing of the whole stadium. All the distinguished guests who come to Old Trafford to watch the game will be arranged in the south stand. And media reporters will sit in the south stand and watch the center, so that they can watch the game from a very good and clear angle. Television cameras are located in the south stand, so the landscape on TV is the landscape of the south stand. The commentator's flank is also located in the south stand, the flank of Manchester United's official TV station MUTV is located in the east, and other flanks such as BBC and Sky TV are located in the west. The reserved seats are in front of the center of the south stand, which is higher than the grass, so that the team leader and coach can have a broader vision to enjoy the game. Located inside the two reserve seats is the old players' passage at Old Trafford. 1993 is closed. This passage is the only remaining part of 19 10 old Trafford Stadium, and the others have been destroyed by the gunfire of World War II. [49] On February 6th, 2008, the corridor was renamed Munich Corridor to commemorate the 50th anniversary of 1958 Munich air crash. At present, the player channel is located in the southwest corner of the stadium, and the entrance has also been increased to prevent emergencies. When some activities require large machines to enter the grass, the seats above the entrance of the passage can be raised to 25 feet (7.6 meters) so that they can pass. The players' channel is connected with the players' locker room, including TV interviews and players' leisure area on the way.

On April 3rd, 20 16, the south stand of Dream Theater was named "Sir Bobby Charlton Stand", and Sir Charlton enjoyed the honor comparable to Sir Alex Ferguson. The statue of the Three Sages standing side by side with george best and denis law has already stood outside the Dream Theater (this is his nickname). The statue outside the stadium and the stands inside the stadium complement each other and get such courtesy, which shows that Sir Charlton is not only the greatest star of Manchester United, but also a witness to the vicissitudes of the Red Devils in the past 60 years. He is also the inheritor from Busby era to Ferguson era, and he is also a great man and giant who has a far-reaching influence on Manchester United's past, present and future destiny.

1966, Charlton led England to win the only World Cup and scored two goals in the semi-final 2: 1 against Portugal. 1967, Charlton regained the League One title for Manchester United. A year later, he scored twice again in the Champions League final at Wembley, leading Manchester United to beat Benfica to the top of the Champions League, becoming the first English team to win the Champions League. 1970, Charlton retired from England, leaving a record of 49 goals in 106. This record was not broken by Rooney until last year. Three years later, he left Manchester United with a miracle of 758 games and 249 goals. His appearance record was not broken until 2008, and his goal record was left to future generations to catch up with. Old Trafford is most famous for its West Stand, also known as the St Rayford Stand. Traditionally, this is the base camp of Manchester United die-hard fans and the loudest stand in the whole stadium. The West Stand was originally designed to accommodate 20,000 spectators, and it was also the latest stand to be added and eventually the terrace stand was cancelled. The reconstruction plan of the west stand began in the season of 1992-93, and was managed by Alfred McAlpine, a construction company. When the second floor of the West Stand was completed in 2000, a large number of fans gathered in the "K Stand" instead, so that it was covered with slogans and flags, which best preserved the original Manchester United culture. Denis law, a Manchester United star, has the title of "Stratford King", and a bronze statue of him is placed on the top floor of the West Stand to commemorate him.

Manchester United's official boutiques have left footprints in six places. First, the boutique is located next to the railway, far from the stadium. After that, the boutique entered the south stand, which was originally opposite the place where the visiting fans entered. After that, the store moved to a place that was later used as a team promotion office. Due to the popularity of 1968+0990, Shangtai moved to the front yard of the west stand and expanded from a small shop to a large boutique in one fell swoop. Sir Alex Ferguson presided over the opening ceremony on 1994+02.3. /kloc-moved at the end of 0/990. As the west stand needs to be rebuilt, the boutique also needs to find another place to live. Finally, after rebuilding the East Stand in 2000, the boutique moved to a local store with an area of 65,438+07,000 square feet to continue its business. The boutique table is currently operated by Manchester United jersey manufacturer Nike. The grass area of the stadium is 106 meters (1 16 yards) long and 69 meters (75 yards) wide, with several meters on each side for run-up. The center of the stadium is 9 inches higher than the edge, so that the rain on the surface of the stadium can flow to the side when it rains. Like other modern courses, under the grass of 10 inch (25 cm) is an underground heating system, in which 23 miles (37 km) of rubber pipes are hidden. Sir Alex Ferguson, the team leader, often asks for grass change, especially in the middle of the season when the team 1998-99 won the triple crown. The grass on the stadium is also watered regularly, but less water is sprinkled in rainy season than in dry season. Sprinkle water three times a week from April to 1 1 month. But only once a week from 1 1 month to March.

In the mid-1960s, Manchester United Football Club also had a basketball department, and planned to build a 9,000-seat indoor court in the existing E/KLOC-0 parking lot. However, due to lack of funds at that time, the basketball career was sold. Random talk on architectural experience

Before 1902, the statue of Matthew Busby, the former coach of the team, was placed in the east stand. Newton Heath, the predecessor of Manchester United, has competitions in Crayton's North Road Stadium and Bank Street Stadium, but the quality of grass is often affected by nearby factories. Therefore, when the team changed its name and was on the verge of bankruptcy, john davis, the new president of the club, said that the Bank Street Stadium was not suitable as the home of a team that had won the First Division and the FA Cup, so he decided to build a new stadium to meet the needs of the team. After a frequent round of inspection, Davis decided to build a stadium on a piece of land near the canal at the foot of Trafford Bridge as the team's new home.

Archibald leitch, a Scottish architect, has rich experience in stadium design and is responsible for the design of Old Trafford Stadium. The stadium was originally designed as a large stadium with a capacity of 65,438+000,000 people. The south stand has a roof and special chairs, and the other stands are stands. Including the cost of land purchase, the total construction cost of the stadium was originally estimated at 60 thousand pounds. However, due to the rising cost, the stadium needs an additional 30,000 pounds to become a large stadium with a capacity of100,000 people, so the club decided to reduce the capacity to 80,000 people to avoid a significant increase in the project cost. However, despite the cost reduction, the amazing cost of this stadium still earned Manchester United the nickname "Regal United". Due to the huge construction cost, archibald leitch, the chief architect, had to write to Cheshire Route Committee in May, 1908, hoping to get a loan of 10000 from the Committee, and promised to return 2,000 pounds or half of the annual ticket revenue in the next five years in exchange for the funds for the Committee to build the stadium, thus alleviating the financial pressure on Manchester United. Although the club and two other breweries guaranteed the plan, the Committee never passed it. Later, in response to the completion of the new stadium, the Committee built a new Trafford Park Station here. The station was later renamed Manchester United Football Station, but it was renamed Old Trafford Football Station again at the beginning of 1936. There will be no service at the station on weekdays, only the interval service between Manchester Central Station and Old Trafford Football Station by steam train on match day.

The stadium building was supervised by Ma Lixun Brameld and officially completed at the end of 1909. The opening match of the stadium was held on 191February19, and Manchester United played against their old enemy Liverpool at home. But Manchester United failed to present a victory for the fans and was defeated by Liverpool 4-3. According to a reporter at that time, it was the biggest, most beautiful, spacious and comfortable stadium he had ever seen. At that time, the stadium was really unbeatable, which brought honor to Manchester United as the home team of the stadium.

Before the completion of Wembley Stadium 1923, many stadiums, including Old Trafford, had hosted the FA Cup finals. The first FA Cup final at Old Trafford was held in 19 1 1 year. Ballard and Newcastle fought fiercely at Crystal Palace 120 minutes later, but they still had no record of each other. The game was played again at Old Trafford. Ballard won the first FA Cup in front of 58,000 spectators by 1-0. The second FA Cup final will be held in 19 15 four years later. Sheffield United beat Chelsea 3-0 to win the championship. The competition attracted 50,000 fans, most of whom came from the army, because the final was called the "Khaki Cup Final". 1920,1920 On February 27th, Old Trafford played a game in which Manchester United had the most players in the league before World War II. Manchester United lost to Aston Villa by 1-3 in front of 70,504 fans. 1926 April 17, Old Trafford held its first international match, and England lost 0-/kloc-0 to visiting Scotland in front of 49,429 supporters. Unfortunately, the attendance record maintained by Old Trafford was not included by Manchester United. 1On March 25th, 939, an FA Cup semi-final between Kensby and Wolves was the most attended event at Old Trafford, with a total of 76,962 spectators.

Old Trafford Stadium is a football stadium, located in greater manchester. Old Trafford is the home of Premier League team Manchester United, with 762 12 seats. It is the second largest football stadium in Britain after Wembley Stadium.

World war ii air strikes

1936, Manchester United added an 80-yard cover to the north stand with a maintenance fee of 35,000 pounds, and two years later added a cover to the corner next to the south stand. When World War II broke out, Old Trafford was requisitioned by the British army as a military camp and supply station. Although the stadium has been requisitioned, the football match is still held in the stadium. Until February 22nd, 1940, 1940, the Germans bombed the nearby Old Trafford Park, and the stadium was also damaged. The loss meeting will be held at Christmas, and the game between Manchester United and Stowe Port needs to be moved to the home of Stowe Port. After about two months of maintenance, the Old Trafford Stadium was finally able to hold the event again on March 8 194 1, but three days later it was attacked by another round of air strikes by the Germans, causing more serious damage. So Manchester United need to find another stadium to play. Under the pressure of James Gibson, the War Damage Committee promised to pay Manchester United 4800 pounds to clean up the damaged wreckage and 65438 pounds +07478 pounds to rebuild the stadium. During the reconstruction, Manchester United decided to borrow the main road stadium of Manchester City, the home of the same city club, as the team's substitute home at the price of 5,000 pounds a year and part of the ticket proceeds. At that time, the club still had a debt of about 15000, which obviously could not support the rental cost of the main road stadium. Someone once asked the government to increase compensation, but unfortunately it failed. 1949, Old Trafford Stadium was finally reopened after being closed for nearly 10 years. Manchester United finally returned to Old Trafford on August 24th 1949 and beat Bolton 3-0 in front of 4 1748 people.

Complete the master plan

195 1 After completing the renovation of the upper cover originally located in the main stand, roofs were added for the other three stands, and finally 1959 completed the installation of the upper cover for the west stand, covering all the stands. Manchester United also invested 40,000 pounds to install floodlights to qualify for the European competition held in the evening, so there is no need to use the main road stadium. In order to avoid casting a double shadow on the court, the upper covers of the two stands were forcibly removed. Manchester United's first game requiring floodlights was the Group A match against Bolton on March 25th. 1957.

Although the audience can enjoy the game held at Old Trafford in the evening, they are still blocked by the pillars supporting the cover, preventing them from watching the game. The World Cup was held in England on 1966. 1965, Manchester United decided to redesign the north stand and the east stand, removing the pillars supporting the roof and replacing them with modern cantilever columns. This will enable all spectators to fully enjoy their games without obstacles. At the same time, the capacity of the stands on the Union Road will be increased to 20,000 people (654.38+0,000 seats and 654.38+0,000 enterprises), which will cost a total of 350,000 pounds. Mather and Nath (Everton Fu Na), the design company of the new stands, transformed the open space in the stands into a large open-air stepped stand, and added wings to the stands of English football fields for the first time. After two stands were changed into cantilever columns, the club owner put forward a long-term plan, hoping to change the other two stands into cantilever columns and turn the stadium into a bowl-shaped stadium. The organizer hopes that this project can focus the fans' voices on the stadium as much as possible, so that the players in the stadium can feel the atmosphere and momentum in the stadium. During this period, the stadium once again held the third FA Cup final in England, and * * * 62078 spectators entered the stadium to watch the 1970 FA Cup final replay between Leeds United and Chelsea. In the end, Chelsea beat the opponent 2-/kloc-0-0 and became the champion. In the1970s, due to the sharp rise of hooliganism in English football and Manchester United's demotion from the first division in 1974, the club's hooligan organization "Red Army" was notorious. A violent incident in which a knife was thrown into the stadium led the club to install the first fence in Britain at Old Trafford to separate the fans in the stands from the grass in the stadium.

During the period of 1973, a cover was designed outside the stadium. At the same time, the old scoreboard was replaced, a new electronic scoreboard was installed in the northeast corner, and the original scoreboard was changed to 5500 seats. 1975 started the expansion project of 3 million pounds, and a wing was added to the main stand. The flank overlooks the venue, but part of the line of sight is blocked by the pillars supporting the upper cover. Therefore, the stand, scoreboard, main stand and rear of Union Road are all changed to cantilever column design. The cover on the wing and cantilever column increases the total length of the stand, and this change can also change the club office from the southeast corner of Old Trafford to the main stand. After the relocation of the club office, all its positions were converted into seats, making Old Trafford a total of 25,686 seats and 30,699 corporate positions. The design of cantilever column also makes the floodlight position of the stadium need to be completely set, which was reorganized in 1987.

Replace all seats

With the progress of every stadium reconstruction project, the capacity of the stadium has been declining. In the1980s, the capacity of stadiums dropped from 80,000 to about 60,000. Until the1990s, the government listened to the recommendations of Taylor's report, demanding that all stadiums be full and corporate positions be abolished. This means that Manchester United need three to five million pounds to change all the stands on the grass near Stratford Stadium into seats. In addition, three other terraces will be demolished. In addition to spending10 million pounds, the total capacity of Old Trafford has dropped to the lowest level in history, and it can only accommodate about 44,000 fans. However, the government informed Manchester United that only about1400,000 pounds, up to 2 million pounds, can be paid from the compensation scheme of this policy.

The performance of the club was revived by Sir Alex Ferguson in the early 1968+0990 s, which made the club decide to redevelop Old Trafford. 1995, the North Stand announced a new row of stands, which enabled Old Trafford to successfully hold three group matches, a 1/4 final and a semi-final of the European Championship. 1In March 1995, the World Expo announced that it would spend 9.2 million pounds to buy a 20-acre Trafford Park Trade Village on the other side of Union Road. The project started at the end of 1994-95 season and was put into operation before the opening of 1996 European Championship. The design of the new stand was once again entrusted to the design company "Everton Fu Na", and a three-story north stand was built at a cost of18.65 million. The new stands provide 25,500 new seats, bringing the total seating capacity of the stadium to 55,000. Its cantilever column also became the largest in Europe at that time, with a total length of 58.5 meters (192 feet) from the back wall of the stand to the edge of the upper cover. As the team continues to achieve good results, Manchester United will announce the expansion plan of Old Trafford. First of all, the East Stand will be built on the third floor, which will be opened on June 5438+1October 2000. The stadium can accommodate 6 1 000 spectators at the same time. The second floor of the west stand was subsequently completed, with 7,000 seats added, and the total number of seats increased to 682 17. Three years later, Old Trafford ushered in the first important European final and hosted the 2003 Champions League final with Juventus and AC Milan.

Since 200 1, due to the renovation project of Wembley Stadium, the English football team needs to play in other stadiums. In the first few years, the team took turns playing in all regional stadiums, from Villa Park in Birmingham to St James Park in Newcastle United. However, from 2003 to 2007, Old Trafford hosted 12 of the 23 main stadiums in England, which was higher than other stadiums. On February 7th, 2007, Old Trafford lost 0-/kloc-0 to Spain at home, with a total audience of 58,207.

expand

Old Trafford was expanded from July 2005 to May 2006, adding a second floor in the northeast corner and northwest corner of the stadium, providing 8,000 seats. The newly-built seats were put into use in batches, and the first batch was put into use on March 26, 2006, setting a record of 69,070 people in the Premier League. This record continued to climb with the completion of new seats until it reached its peak on March 3, 2007. 76,098 fans watched Manchester United beat Blackburn Rovers 4-65,438+0.

future

After the completion of the expansion in 2006, Manchester United actively continued to expand the Old Trafford Stadium, and the next step is to rebuild the South Stand. Different from other stands, the South Stand has two floors and still has only one floor of seats. If the South Stand can be expanded like the North Stand, the total capacity of Old Trafford will exceed 95,000 people, surpassing Wembley Stadium to become the largest football field in England. However, it is also difficult to expand the South Station, because the South Station is adjacent to the railway, and the railway station and track need to be relocated. In addition, Manchester United also needs to buy about 50 houses near the train track, with a total cost of100000. However, Manchester United's property manager said that the expansion plan is imperative and extremely important for Old Trafford Stadium. However, the expansion project has also brought other problems. The increase of the height of the south stand will reduce the light of the stadium, and other large stadiums such as Wembley Stadium, Bannabe Stadium and San Siro Stadium are also facing this problem. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson also said that the reconstruction of the North Stand at Old Trafford has caused problems.

Therefore, it is suggested that Old Trafford Stadium should strive to become the home of England's national football team outside Wembley Stadium, which can attract northern fans to support England. And the FA Cup semi-final to rebuild the reputation of Old Trafford Stadium.