Video není dostupné.
Omlouváme se.
MANCHESTER CITY: MAINE ROAD THE HISTORY
Vložit
- čas přidán 6. 02. 2019
- THE HISTORY OF MAINE ROAD, THE HOME OF MANCHESTER CITY FC FROM 1923 TO 2003
Maine Road was for 80 years the home of Manchester City until the club moved to the Etihad Stadium in 2003.
In the early decades of the 20th century Manchester City played their home matches at Hyde Road, but after the ground got severely damaged in a fire, plans were made to move to a bigger ground.
Maine Road opened on the 25th of August 1923 with a match between Manchester City and Sheffield United (2-1). The stadium could hold about 85,000 spectators at that time, which made it the largest stadium in England after Wembley Stadium.
The record attendance was achieved in 1934 when 84,569 spectators visited an FA Cup match between City and Stoke. Just after the Second World War the club shared Maine Road with local rivals Manchester United after Old Trafford had gotten damaged during an air-raid.
In the late 1950s the Main Stand got redeveloped and renamed The Kippax Stand. Further smaller improvements were made in the years following and in the 1970s a new North Stand was constructed.
In the 1990s City followed the Taylor Report requirements in redeveloping the ground into an all-seater, which included the construction of two new stands. The first to be completed was the Platt Lane Stand in 1993, which was followed one year later by the demolition and reconstruction of the Kippax Stand, which was turned from a terrace into a new three-tier all-seater stand.
Plans for further redevelopments were made, but abandoned after the club relegated in 1996. The club eventually decided to move away from Maine Road when the City of Manchester Stadium got available after the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
The final capacity of the stadium was 35,150 seats. The last match at Maine Road was played on the 11th of May 2003. The match ended in a 0-1 defeat of Manchester City against the visitors Southampton.
The stadium got finally demolished in late 2003 and subsequently replaced with a housing development. Maine Road was located in the Moss Side area south of Manchester’s city centre.
![Maine Road on location [HD]](/img/n.gif)
A proper football ground, full of history, full of memories ... and the british crowd record!
Not a British club ground record, that is Rangers Ibrox stadium - 118,567
*English
Only visited Maine Road once when my team Birmingham won in the 97/98 season I think it was & it was the same season Man City dropped into the 3rd division. How times have changed for them in the last 20 years.
Yep.. I know this is a reply very late but I remember that game well. Dele Adebola slotted the winner really late that day.
In a different life, many years ago, in 1974, when I was 17, I very briefly worked at Maine Rd, on the great Stan Gibson's groundstaff team. Although I was there a few months, I left with so many memories. But the picture that bings a memory back is the final picture. On the top of the arms supporting the roof of the North Stand, you can see small bands at intervals along each arm. This was called I recall 'Flash band', it stopped expansion of the joints in hot weather. I was once instructed to climb up onto the North Stand roof to help the contractor bring down all his equipment when he finished the job. The sheets that made up the roof was so thin, a missed placed foot would allow you see the seats underneath! The view was amazing, but you made certain to watch where you placed your feet!
Scary place to go as an away fan in the 70's
Still home for me but don’t think we’d be where we are today if we didn’t move.
CRB Premier you would, there was plenty of room to expand, you’d still have been bought by a big owner you’d just have a stadium more comparable to Anfield or Villa park
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 im a man city fan and ur talkin fax
It's was just a case of accepting the offer of moving into the brand new City of Manchester stadium after the Commonwealth games had finished, so that the stadium would become reguarly used, and not left as an unwanted 'white elephant' , something that Manchester City council certainly didn't want ........ the fact that it held around 15,000 more people than Maine Road did was also an attraction to City.
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 the etihad campus is huge, you would have had to knock down half of the houses in moss side to replicate that at maine road. Would have never been bought out by mansour if they were still at maine road.
I've visited Maine Road a couple of times, it was a vast hotch-potch totally disorganised - seats plonked where there had been stairs down the stand - and that last big stand where the Kippax was, nothing seemed to fit together ... how long did that stand last before they pulled it all down?
Opened, properly, for the 95/96 season. Pulled down at the end of the 02/03 season.
I remember in 1970s to 1980s there was world’s worst men’s public toilets at behind of Kippax Stand.
You should have tried the ones at Oxford United !
i was born in the year it was demolished so sadly i never got to see it
me too
jack plant born 2005 wish I could have been
@@ispyeu1149 How young are you lot haha. I had a season ticket the last 3 years. One thing I can honestly say is the fan base was so different when we moved. Maine Road was ferocious. We crossed the half way line and everyone stood up roaring the players on. Songs used to echo every minute from the North Stand. The minute we stepped into the City of Manc Stadium (Etihad), something had died at the club.
@@tomben6180 15 innit, season ticket holder since 2008
@@ispyeu1149 Fair play mate. You were lucky to miss the 1990’s 😉
Jehova Witnesses held national convention there. Cleaned Main Road within an inch of its life. Sad to see old fashioned British style stadium gone.
Although by 2000 the stadium was looking a mess, having been poorly redeveloped, it looked like a big site. Did they really need to move away from it??
I thought Etihad was build on Maine road that it was a conversion of the old stadium... I feel little sad when teams leave their traditional ground!!!
Χαράλαμπος Βεζακιάδης Our first real big ground was Hyde road ,very close to where we are now..Part of that ground burnt down at that is why we moved to moss side .We are now very close to where the club originated from .
All that stands on the land where Maine Road once was is a rather odd Iooking modern housing development that they have since built, it struggles to fit in with the maze of terraced streets and alleyways that surround it ..... it's hard to believe that a football ground was ever there when you go back to Moss Side and look at it now.
The Etihad has been built on land in Bradford, Manchester, that's now commonly known as Eastlands .... Bradford Pit/Colliery once stood there, as did Johnson's wire works. ....I was born just across the road from it.
They have started building an arena next to it to rival the MEN Arena in the city centre ... it's said to be even bigger!
RIP Vincent Calderón
@@novohomem8744 Yeah as it happens I like Atletico de Madrid and as much as I understand the magnificent appeal of Mediterraneo, the aura of the historic Vicente Calderon was something else!!
it looks & feels like a football stadium with character.. not like the cold concrete stadiums they build now that all look the same... boring..
Nice collection of photos, but the music is unbearable!
Happy Days lived by Alex Park
Music name?
ikson paradise
The last quarter of this video should be renamed how to ruin a vintage football ground in 10 years. What a mess. Makes the Etihad seem like a beautiful stadium.
South Stand? Try Platt Lane
Please .. Arsenal ,from highbury to emirates ..
Done!
Done!
Done!
Done!
Done!
This is truly Man city... Nothing to do with arab city fake club (2008-...)
you didnt apload the new stsdium,why?
Because the title clearly says Maine Road and not the Emptyhad
@@fredrikopsahl2418 oh ok, i am so dumb😂
M. Daniel Zamzamy **Emptyhad
@@fredrikopsahl2418 and you got emptyhead
MaNcITyHaVeNoHiStOrY
It was an absolute dump
History? More like No history
Flash Jeff21 he just showed you 120 years of man city history are you brainwashed?
G Gg exactly People think that history is all about trophy’s, it really isn’t it’s about this kind of stuff and we had 10x better fans than them at the time, but now all the working class people can’t come to every game
Harvey Janaz yes people think that they know but they don't they think that their club has good atmosphere and all but it's not true. Every top 6 team has bad atmosphere against mid/smaller teams it's a fact because of all the tourists and that you are guaranteed to win. Liverpool has horrible atmosphere against smaller teams because of all the tourists but they get butt hurt and triggered and can't take a fact when themselves talk shit all day long and when themselves gets called out. Because they have glory hunters and plastic tourists that destroy the atmosphere they can't take it. I know this text is an absolute mess but I 100 agree with you
And manunited spent more years in the 2nd division than city before 1980s.(when city declined and fergy joined manU )
4 FA , 2 league titles. 2 League cups. 4 community shields, 1 Cup Winners Cup. Before 2008.
Joe Mercer won us 7 honours at his time at the club. We had one of the greatest ever english teams under him but sadly we didnt win as much as we could've.
Everton also had more league titles than manU before 1992.
Trautman one of the best goalkeepers of all time played for us. As well as Colin Bell, Corrigan, Johnson, Brook, summerbee and so on.
But of course "history" only started 1992 onwards...
History is all that Man United live on They can’t say anything about there present but city can
You ain't got no history!!!!
givari septian every club has history you donut
every club does, Man City were founded in 1880 so clearly in over 100 years they must have history.
Clueless dipstick!
People like you should go and find another sport. Every club has history maybe not as illustrious as others but it's there's never the less.