#OLD TRAFFORD STADIUM DESIGN PATCH#
#OLD TRAFFORD STADIUM DESIGN PROFESSIONAL#

#OLD TRAFFORD STADIUM DESIGN PROFESSIONAL#

The club sourced the services of a professional Scottish, Archibald Leitch, who originally designed the facility to accommodate 100,000 persons (Inglis, 1996).

#OLD TRAFFORD STADIUM DESIGN PATCH#

The club was subsequently renamed Manchester United and around the same time, Davies settled on a patch of land at the northern end of Warwick Road in Old Trafford neighbourhood. These two grounds were technically unsuitable for the construction of a huge stadium and therefore in 1909, then Chairman, John Henry Davies was given the task to scout for a good site for constructing a new stadium for the club which had just won the First Division and the FA Cup. The facility was never meant to be situated at its current location because before 1902, the current owner (Manchester United) was known as Newton Heath and were playing their matches at North Road and then later at Bank Street, Clayton (Murphy, 2006).

The circumstances surrounding the construction of the Old Trafford are interesting. This essay audits the Old Trafford by covering the following special aspects: construction and capacity, structure and facilities, and attendance. It also hosted the 1966 FIFA World Cup matches, UEFA Euro 1996 matches, 2003 UEFA Champions League Final, 2012 Summer Olympics football matches, rugby Super League Grand Final, and the 2000 Rugby League World Cup (Murphy, 2006). Apart from hosting Manchester United home matches, Old Trafford is frequently used as a neutral ground for FA Cup semi-final matches as well as England international matches especially when Wembley was under construction. There are future plans to add a second tier in the southern stand so as to increase the facilityвЂ™s capacity to 95,000 persons (Morgan, 2010). Since 1909, when initial constructions works were completed, major expansions have been carried out especially in the 1990s and 2000s to include extra tiers on the northern, western and eastern stands. Nicknamed the Theatre of Dreams by Bobby Charlton, one of the many Manchester United living legends, the facility is the second largest football stadium in England (it can accommodate up to 75,731 persons), after Wembley, and the ninth largest football stadium in Europe (Murphy, 2006). Old Trafford is the Manchester United Football Club permanent stadium located in Old Trafford area of the Greater Manchester, England. 7ДЎ.0 PART A: FACILITY AUDIT 1.1 Introduction 6Дў.3 Future Feasibility and Design Attributes. 6Дў.2 Currents Design Options Provided by Old Trafford. Sport Facility And Event Management: The Case Of Manchester United Old TraffordДў.0 PART TWO: FUTURE FEASIBILITY AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS.

Old trafford stadium design