Windsor Park (Belfast)

United Kingdom / Northern Ireland / Belfast
 stadium, football / soccer stadium, football premier league
Windsor Park, in Belfast, is the home ground of the Northern Irish football club, Linfield. It is also the home of the Northern Ireland national football team and Irish Cup and Irish League Cup finals.
Windsor Park was first opened in 1905, with a match between Linfield and Glentoran. Most of the stadium, however, was designed and built in the 1930s, to a design made by the Scottish architect Archibald Leitch (who also worked on Goodison Park, Celtic Park, Ibrox Park and Hampden Park). It had one main seated stand (the Grandstand, now known as the South Stand), with "reserved" terracing in front, and a large open terrace behind the goal to the west called the Spion Kop. To the north, there was a long covered terrace (the "unreserved" terracing) and behind the eastern goal at the Railway End another covered terrace. Windsor Park's peak capacity in this format was 60,000. In the early 1960s the Railway End terrace had seats put in (the Railway Stand), while in the early 1970s a social club/viewing lounge was constructed in the corner between the Railway Stand and the Grandstand. In 1982, the covered terrace opposite the main stand was damaged in a fire and so it was demolished and replaced with a modern 6800 seater (the North Stand), on two tiers and with a cantilever roof. In the late 1990s, the Kop terrace was also demolished and replaced with sleek 5000-seater West Stand (later renamed the Alex Russell Stand after the former Linfield player), but still referred to in common parlance as the Kop.
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Coordinates:   54°34'57"N   5°57'18"W

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  • seen Man City play at Linfield and Drogheda Utd , two great days out ,love going Northern Ireland, great place to go
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