Vale Park: Difference between revisions

| name = Vale Park

| image = Vale Park.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption = Vale Park pictured in July 2006.

| fullname = Vale Park

| location = Hamil Road, [[Burslem]],<br>[[Stoke-on-Trent]], [[England]]

| coordinates = {{coord|53|2|59|N|2|11|33|W|display=it}}

| broke_ground = 19501944

| built = 1950

| opened = 24 August 1950

| renovated = 1989–98 (converted to all-seater stadia)

| expanded = 1954 (Railway Stand)<br>1989 (Disabled Stand)

| owner = Port Vale F.C.

| elevation = {{convert|520|ft|m}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/articles/uk-highest-places/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/articles/uk-highest-places/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The UK's highest mountain? It's not what you think|first=Oliver|last=Smith|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=11 December 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

| surface = [[Grass]]

| scoreboard = Yes

| construction_cost = £50,000

| tenants = [[Port Vale F.C.]] (1950–present)

| record_attendance = 49,768 v. [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] <br> 20 February 1960

| capacity = 1920,552<ref>{{Cite web|title=Port Vale Set To Finally Complete Lorne Street Stand 21 Years After Opening|url=https://footballgroundguide.com/news/port-vale-set-to-finally-complete-lorne-street-stand-21-years-after-opening.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-13|language=en-US}}</ref>

| dimensions = 114 x 77 [[yard]]s<br>104 x 70.5 metres

The ground has seen its capacity go up and down, its peak being 42,000 in February 1954 against [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]], although a club record 49,768 managed to squeeze in for a 1960 [[FA Cup]] fifth round fixture against [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]. It now has a notional capacity of 1920,552, though has rarely seen more than 600010,000 spectators since major restructuring to make the stadium an all-seater venue in the 1990s. Strangely the only ever first division goal scored at Vale Park was scored by Stoke City in their game against Middlesbrough after damage from a storm damaged their stadium.