Highbury, Upton Park and then The Dell. I think both clubs took a step backwards in regards to stadium when they left. I can't say the same for the others.

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The Boleyn.

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The old Highbury by a country mile. So much history and character.

Anfield will one day disappear. Too small, too jumbled, too squashed in, awful travel infrastructure.

@@killerrabbit2693 too small? it is now fifth largest football stadium in england :D yeah, travel is problem but it is much cheaper and easier to solve problems with public transport than build compeltely new stadium after two big expansion in the last ten years

@milanpodmanik5386 Of course too small. It can't be expanded. It will be overtaken in the years to come. It's 5th largest today, and will fall down the pecking order. Newcastle, man u, they'll develop. I'm talking about the future, and you're talking about now. If travel issues were so easy to resolve, then how come it hasn't been for decades... The limit is reached. The council and the club don't work well together. The city doesn't understand how valuable the club is to the area. If it did, it would be funding infrastructure when the club is winning titles and champions leagues. Never happened. Sorry bud, saying it's cheaper to do x misses the point of who funds x. The club will have to one day move unless the council has a drastic change.

I believe that they secured the Stanley Park Land for the proposed new stadium that didn't happen. One day financial consideration will make a stadium essential really given the importance of match day revenue.

Yes it’s great the way they’ve increased the size of Anfield of late. Glad we’re still at Elland Road

Spurs stadium must be the most expensive MacD’s in the world then.

half the grounds these days look better than some of the "traditional" bowl grounds. just because it's old with rusted poles obstructing view and 2/4 of the stadium blocked off because it's unsafe doesn't make it "better"

@@chadchadderton yes if you're around a millennial you have no sense of tradition and history of this country on all fronts.. I don't blame the melty millennials.. I blame the poxy education system and what has become of it

@@highgreen6452 what an idiotic response... most millenials grew up with the stadiums in the video and most other "tradtional" grounds... they're well aware of "tradition and history" you melt. you blaming the education system is just laughable when on average the general public continue and continue to be more educated than before... even with all the misinformation that gets spread. many older grounds, including quite a few in this list are bowl grounds with terrible infrastructure and soulless exteriors. imagine thinking that a stadium with a blank sheet metal exterior, 1 level of bowl seating and leaky roofs with support structures that block views is a "good" stadium just because of it's age. it's sad that fossils like you are so ingrained to think such idiotic thoughts that you don't even realise how noncey y'all sound

@@highgreen6452 Welp, another snowflake, noncey child loving liberal makes an embarrassment and mockery of the education system by being so triggered and upset that he cannot even form a basic sentence in his first language. What a surprise that an inbreeding kiddie fiddler like yourself lacks all basic education principles and has close to ZERO understanding about general history and the definition of different generations. It's almost a disgrace that gutless pedo freaks like yourself are even allowed to voice their absolute nonsensical ramblings online... only to harm to eyes of any unfortunate person to set eyes on such a pathetic comment. Go seek mental help champ... clearly your sibling parents didn't teach you... well anything.

Of all the grounds in the video I have been to them all too, actually seen my team lose at all of them other than Filbert Street.... only been their once it was a majorly dull 0-0 pretty much the only thing exciting that happened was a firework went off by my foot and scorched my trainers, set off by our own fans!!!

Highbury was a library 😂

@@jacobsalter8653you’ve never been lad

True, don't miss the screaming lady behind the goals though

A long way from Woolwich though

Yes I remember as a child growing up watching the arsenal v man utd games ❤️

@@kennethmcmillan5811Warra trophy for spurs

@@Afcyasiin in English please if your able to !I’m old school .

City pretty much had to move, Maine Road was originally the location of a quarry and the site had been landfilled before they built it.... in the 1920s that was fine, by the 1980s the landfill was considered toxic which meant updating the ground was prohibitively expensive.

​@@mjc8281Always knew it was a dump 😂

Man city rent that stadium from Manchester City Council also

@@jonathanmunroe3597 They built another across the road and an arena next door. Should have bought the stadium, and lets face it they could have bought it ten times over. Manchester City council got a good deal in the 99 year lease. CITY has paid for all the expansion and maintenence. Wish I could rent out a property that the tenents pay for the upkeep and generally make massive improvements. Don`t you?

@@TheLondonForever00 and London isn`t?

Middlesbrough isn’t in the prem I could be wrong because I support Sheffield Wednesday and they are in league one

@@Swfc517 yeah neither are Coventry or Sunderland, but the point of these videos is which stadiums have had a team that was in the Premier League play a Premier League game there but have since been demolished.

@@danieljathatcher Sheffield Wednesday were but are stadium has never been broke or constructed 💙🤍 🦉owls🦉

@@Swfc517 same with us at Birmingham City. And St Andrews is still standing! I mean barely but still 😂

Is a hafiz Sunday of the grounds, not detailed history of every little thing that ever harpenden

The atmosphere at the emirates is still shocking now, after being to both stadiums Highbury clears it easily

I never got to go to White Hart Lane but my dad did months or probably weeks before it was demolished.

The new Spurs stadium is the best in the country, its phenomenal.

Think you mean arsenal mate. There’s NOTHING generic about Tottenham stadium

@@Porkcylinderas an Arsenal fan, I think Tottenham's new ground looks fucking amazing. Would love to see the emirates one day have redevelopments that make it look, not necessarily the same as it, but close to as good as it looks.

thats because most "conurbation brummies" living there now are not interested in football.

Their moving caused me grief too. A bone headed decision, bitterly regretted since.

Indeed and half the area of the old pitch doesn't have grass on it. Not a Cov fan, but was always a pleasure to watch football at Highfield Road. It had character, something most new stadia lack.

Much of Highbury's structures are listed so Arsenal had no option to demolish them.

@@darthwiizius feel better?

Maine Road was a proper football ground - loved it when you had the old Kippax terrace before it was replaced by the stand.

London Stadium*

Correct, city got it for a token cash gift of £1

CITY HAD TO BUILD DOWN 20 METERS AN BUILD A NEW END BEFORE THEY COULD MOVE IN .😏

​@@Mike-ol7gt City sold Maine Road to Manchester City Council for 30m and used the money to convert a 3 sided athletics stadium to a 4 sided football stadium.

@@Mike-ol7gtWrong, as another reply has said, City sold Maine Road to the Council and paid £millions to covert the athletics stadium into a modern football stadium. City also offered to buy the stadium off the Council since, but the Council requested City lease it, so they have regular income… City have agreed and have a 99 year lease. You see, unlike City’s neighbours who are under the Borough of Trafford’s Council - as they don’t play in the City of Manchester - Manchester City have a great relationship with the City Council, as the only football league club to play in the City of Manchester.

Craven Cottage, as a stadium, is really beautiful. There's an authenticity about those places; a sense of history + connection to the community.

@@charlietwotimes Indeed. The unique gables. Practically. Semi industrial look but with historical features and sense of warmth. I miss Highbury. Much better than the “modern” Emirates.

Craven Cottage is a beautiful grounds steeped in history. The best of Leitch designs.

Goodison is a lovely old ground . Shame it's on borrowed time

@@peterherrington3300 it really is nice but money talks. They’ll build there around 200 houses, many offices, a massive care home and a retail park. So they’ll get a new stadium for free or even make money on top.

One of the things I miss about the Kippax at maine road is the mixed smell of bovril and piss.

@@liamjohnson7887 ahh yes that lovely smell of piss, the sooner standing is allowed again, the sooner footy becomes working class, as it should be

Moving grounds was only an excuse to charge more money, but most moved to use the stadiums to stage other events. At West Ham we don’t have that excuse, we moved to make it more attractive to investors, it wasn’t for money directly as we lowered the prices on match days and so 57,000 was making nothing more than 36,363 at Upton Park, we don’t make on the catering, ok a bit of increase in match day souvenir sales but as David Sullivan said the move only netted us £13mil a year extra, in football that’s pocket change. If we were to end up buying the stadium then it might become a money spinner but now David Gold has passed on I find that incredibly unlikely it will happen anytime soon.

Everton are still playing at Goodison Park, haven’t moved anywhere, except from Anfield where they used to play before LFC existed.

Bruce would be proud 😂

Could have been demolished or at least renamed.

They complied with the report and seated the stadium, its still decently sized with a great atmosphere and safer. Also why should they rename a 150 year old ground because of one tragedy? It wasn’t the structure of the ground that caused the tragedy but a combination of the way it was barricaded in certain sections and poor ushering on the day of the match. It could have happened at any ground in those days

Because Hillsborough is absoloutley massive for its age and has plenty of room to expand

Burnden Park is an asda now. I always feel strange walking around the place knowing what it once was.

Most owners are Yank's now day's

Doesn't sound like our ground at all (Luton supporter)

Highbury was a lovely intimidating old ground . Far better than the modern option

Same with the ibrox and bradford disasters. Heysels another

Not to undermine any of those tragedies but I think Hillsborough is the most remembered because it happened at a high profile match that was aired all over the world. I think if it wasn't, there would not have been a Taylor Report and the status quo (unsafe grounds and hooligan prevention prioritised over crowd safety) would have prevailed for longer. Although i feel it would only have been a matter of time before a tragedy like that did eventually happen at another match some time later in the future.

Murdering red bastards justice for the heysel 39 the sun was right your murderers, u.t.f.t.1878 💙

78 years ago versus 35 (and on TV) perhaps?

My be it doesn't sell sadness and Liverpool are serial victims. Don't mention heysel.

Mate West Ham get 60,000 every home match. Upton Park (The Boylen) only had a capacity of 28,000

Arsenal had no option to demolish Highbury because much of the structure is a listed building and had to be preserved by law.

@@johnmitchell2269 35,000, they also could have easily renovated the East Stand and filled in the remaining corners to increase capacity to 42.5k but sadly money talks more nowadays

@@johnmitchell2269it was 35,000 by the time we moved. At the height of the Bond Scheme, the board wanted to build a 25,000 capacity stadium at the Boleyn. That was absolute madness, considering that we now have regular gates of over 60,000.

the premier league wasnt around in the 70s

😂 I noticed that slip of the tongue too

I wouldn't mind but didn't he play in a very good Derby County team.

No it didn’t! About as intimidating as a puppy chewing a slipper!

Back when you just turned up and paid on the gate it was pain in the arse, I got locked out twice when travelling down there to watch Villa play. Ended up in the Southampton end on one occasion, on the other we ended up running around that block of flats behind the away end, somebody had the idea of getting on the blocks roof to watch the game. Couldn't find the roof, ended up being chased up and down corridors and stairwells by the police...Happy days.

@@tsrgoinc said Intimate

Got nicked at the Dell in the late 80’s

Champions twice in the 70's, some great players at that club. And Clough of course.

Not sure Highfield Road fits with that, always quite liked that ground and it seemed you could still do alot with it, agree Upton Park was nice too....

I was a big Arsenal fan back then (have swapped AFC for non-league these days) and totally agree with you it was a fabulous rivalry we had then which I feel has now been lost as football just isn't what it was, especially when we used to stand on terraces - the away matches were just brilliant and I used to literally count the days down until Saturday! I went away to all these stadiums except for Boro and Sunderland and really regret having not gone. Best away ground on this video - well, the atmosphere away at Spurs was fabulous, especially when Arsenal scored or won. Maine Road in the away end benches was fabulous too, with the massive old Kippax terrace to our right. So for me it's a joint no.1 of White Hart Lane and Maine Road!

It was built for both, the Commonwealth stadium wouldn't have been built if it didn't have permanent residents after the games, MCFC & Manchester city Council worked together on the stadium, part of the deal was for City to sell Maine Road to the council.

Agree completely. Enjoy the old ones while you can

We didn’t have the money to, we’d still be there and would be struggling if Manchester never won the Commonwealth Games.

Neither do the rest of the City fans. Dreadful decision by SISU.

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@@jakehaymes4438 🤓

thats because youve only seen the redshites play there and not analfield as you were born and still live in the south. of england.

West Ham should of done what Tottenham did

Parking was a nightmare though.

I went in the early 80s, we went through the away fans turnstile and found ourselves surrounded by Arsenal fans. They'd split the Clock End into three sections, the away fans were in a middle section behind the goal and we had to quite literally fight our way to it. Luckily most of the Arsenal fans didn't give a damn, so a few kicks and punches were exchanged with one or two and we were off a bit sharpish along the front of the terrace.

The Commonwealth games wouldn't have taken place in Manchester, if the stadium didn't have permanent resident's after the games, City and the Council worked closely together with the conversion of turning an athletics stadium into a football stadium, with City using the money of the sale of Maine Road to convert it for football.

@@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580 ah ok, i didn't know that

@@fpupeshCity spent quite a bit converting it and still work with the City Council now on the stadium and the surrounding area. Thing is, as United don’t technically play in Manchester, City are the only football league club in the Council’s jurisdiction - so the relationship is very strong.

No, nearly all stadiums did not have to be demolished. Many did need redevelopment to accommodate seating, but the majority of clubs outside the Premier league are upgraded and still where they’ve been for decades.

The Hillsborough incident wasn’t hooliganism. It was Police incompetence.

@@agharries The police also responsible for the same tragedy that happened in Indonesian football (Kanjuruhan).

It wasn't hooliganism at Hillsborough. You're confusing it with Heysel. Two totally separate events.

Bollocks . There's still loads of old ones left. You're talking nonsense

Oh dear Christopher, where to start… first of all Manchester wouldn’t have been given the Commonwealth Games had the centre piece stadium not had a permanent occupant afterwards. Secondly, City had to sell Maine Road and the land to fund the conversion of the athletics stadium to a modern football stadium. This cost City 10’s of Millions of £ to do. Thirdly, City have had 3 different owners since they moved to the new stadium and all 3 have offered to buy it outright but the Council have requested each time to lease it, because it gives the Council a steady stream of income. So City have a 99 year lease on the stadium. The reason MCFC and the City of Manchester Council have such a strong relationship, is because City are the only football club to play within Manchester’s boundaries in the entire football league - Utd come under Trafford Borough Council’s jurisdiction and have nothing to do with the City of Manchester as a result - which means the Council is very close with City. City got nothing for free, they’ve spent a fortune on the stadium, initially and now, including mass investment in the areas around the ground in social housing, the world’s largest football academy and a college. It’s why the City Council loves City. And lastly, the Etihad had a higher % fill rate than Old Trafford last year, in fact the only Premier League ground that had a higher % of seats filled over the season, was Saint James’s Park and Newcastle.

Should never have moved too

@@kevinprior3549 Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

We (palace) always got beat there . Standing in the pissing rain (uncovered) to watch Brian kilcline? take us apart 4.0 wasn't a highlight.

It's because when the terraces were replaced with proper stands it was easier to leave the corners empty

The local residents stopped any possibility of development at Highbury. West Ham just got shafted by greedy owners. Sell the ground, move to a soulless bowl, win win for them. If ANY of these fans had a say no team would have moved.