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The brand New Stamford Bridge stadium in August 1905
Chelsea beat West Brom at Stamford Bridge in September 1905
Stamford Bridge opened in 1877 as a home for theLondon Athletic
Cluband was used almost
exclusively for that purpose until 1904, when the lease was
acquired by brothersGusandJoseph
Mears,who wanted to stage high-profile
professionalfootballmatches there. However, previous to
this, in 1898, Stamford Bridge played host to the World
Championship ofshintybetweenBeauly
Shinty ClubandLondon Camanachd.[9]
Stamford Bridge was built close toLillie Bridge,an older
sports ground which had hosted the 1873 FA Cup Final and the
first ever amateur boxing matches
(among other things). It was initially offered toFulham Football
Club,but they turned it down for
financial reasons. They considered selling the land to theGreat
Western Railway Company,butultimately decided to found their own
football club instead, Chelsea, to occupy the ground as a rival
to Fulham. Noted football groundarchitectArchibald Leitch,who
had also designedIbrox,Celtic
Park,Craven CottageandHampden Park,was hired to construct the
stadium. In its early days,
Stamford Bridge stadium was served by a small railway
station,Chelsea and Fulham railway station,
which was later closed afterWorld War II bombing.[10]
Stamford Bridge had an official capacity of around 100,000,
making it the second largest ground
inEnglandafterCrystal Palace.It was used as theFA Cupfinal
venue. As originally constructed,
Stamford Bridge was an athletics track and thepitchwas initially
located in the middle of the running
track. This meant that spectators were separated from the field
of play on all sides by the width of
running track and, on the north and south sides, the separation
was particularly large because the
long sides of the running track considerably exceeded the length
of the football pitch. The stadium
had a single stand for 5,000 spectators on the east side.
Designed byArchibald Leitch,it is an exact
replica of theJohnny Haynesstand he had previously built at the
re-developedCraven Cottage(and
the main reason why Fulham had chosen not to move into the new
ground). The other sides were all
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