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Brunton Park
Brunton Park is a football stadium and the home of Carlisle United. It is situated in the city of Carlisle and has a certified capacity of 17,949. The ground opened in 1909. Brunton Park's grandstand burned down in 1953 and the stadium flooded completely in 2005 and again in 2015.
Brunton Park is split into four separate stands: Warwick Road End, East Stand, Main (West) Stand and the Petteril End, which remains closed unless exceptionally large crowds are in attendance.
Brunton Park is the largest football stadium in England to still including traditional terracing. In 2011, Carlisle United announced plans to move away from Brunton Park to a 12,000 capacity all-seater stadium, although in 2016 the club declared that the move to a new stadium had been shelved.
At one time the ground capacity was set at 27,500 but this was first reduced in the 1980s and then before the 2012–13 season Cumbria County Council inspected Brunton Park and deemed that certain areas of the stadium were unsafe, resulting in the capacity of the ground being reduced further to 17,001 for the forthcoming season (increased slightly since).
The largest attendance at the ground in recent years saw 16,668 attend the 2007 League fixture with Leeds United. This was the largest attendance at the ground since 18,556 watched an FA Cup tie against Liverpool in 1989.
In 1904, Shaddongate United became Carlisle United F.C., an association football club who played at the Millholme Bank ground to the west of Carlisle. The ground was often too small for their purposes and they sometimes used the Rugby Ground which would later be the adjacent neighbour of Brunton Park. In 1905, United joined the Lancashire Combination league, which required larger facilities, so they moved to Devonshire Park, a football ground which was located where Trinity School now stands. In 1909, they were evicted from the premises by the Duke of Devonshire and moved eastwards to establish Brunton Park, the club's home ever since.
In 1953, the original wooden grandstand, which was where the Main Stand is now situated, was burned to the ground in a fire caused by an electrical fault. The sale of local player Geoff Twentyman to Liverpool for £12,500 enabled the club to rebuild what is the West Stand today.
On the evening of Friday, 7 January 2005, the rivers Eden, Caldew and Petteril burst their banks in Carlisle due to as much as 180mm of rainfall upstream that day. The worst affected area was Warwick Road, where Brunton Park is situated.
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Brunton Park
Brunton Park is a football stadium and the home of Carlisle United. It is situated in the city of Carlisle and has a certified capacity of 17,949. The ground opened in 1909. Brunton Park's grandstand burned down in 1953 and the stadium flooded completely in 2005 and again in 2015.
Brunton Park is split into four separate stands: Warwick Road End, East Stand, Main (West) Stand and the Petteril End, which remains closed unless exceptionally large crowds are in attendance.
Brunton Park is the largest football stadium in England to still including traditional terracing. In 2011, Carlisle United announced plans to move away from Brunton Park to a 12,000 capacity all-seater stadium, although in 2016 the club declared that the move to a new stadium had been shelved.
At one time the ground capacity was set at 27,500 but this was first reduced in the 1980s and then before the 2012–13 season Cumbria County Council inspected Brunton Park and deemed that certain areas of the stadium were unsafe, resulting in the capacity of the ground being reduced further to 17,001 for the forthcoming season (increased slightly since).
The largest attendance at the ground in recent years saw 16,668 attend the 2007 League fixture with Leeds United. This was the largest attendance at the ground since 18,556 watched an FA Cup tie against Liverpool in 1989.
In 1904, Shaddongate United became Carlisle United F.C., an association football club who played at the Millholme Bank ground to the west of Carlisle. The ground was often too small for their purposes and they sometimes used the Rugby Ground which would later be the adjacent neighbour of Brunton Park. In 1905, United joined the Lancashire Combination league, which required larger facilities, so they moved to Devonshire Park, a football ground which was located where Trinity School now stands. In 1909, they were evicted from the premises by the Duke of Devonshire and moved eastwards to establish Brunton Park, the club's home ever since.
In 1953, the original wooden grandstand, which was where the Main Stand is now situated, was burned to the ground in a fire caused by an electrical fault. The sale of local player Geoff Twentyman to Liverpool for £12,500 enabled the club to rebuild what is the West Stand today.
On the evening of Friday, 7 January 2005, the rivers Eden, Caldew and Petteril burst their banks in Carlisle due to as much as 180mm of rainfall upstream that day. The worst affected area was Warwick Road, where Brunton Park is situated.