Madjeski Stadium

Ground Name: Madejski Stadium
Capacity: 24,200
Address: Bennett Road, Reading, RG2 0FL
Pitch Size: 102 x 70 metres
Year Opened: 1998
Record Attendance:
24,135 v Manchester United
Premier League, January 19th, 2008.

The Madjeski Stadium is the home of Reading Football Club who moved there in August 1998 from Elm Park, their home for the previous 102 years.

It is an all-seater bowl with a capacity of 24,250 built on the site of a former landfill, which the Reading Borough Council sold to the club for £1.

The cost of building the stadium, which is named after Reading's chairman John Madjeski,was £50 million.

In 2006, following promotion to the Premier League, the club announced plans to extend the ground to between 37,000 to 38,000 seats.

However, their subsequent relegation at the end of the 2007/08 season makes it unlikely that this will happen in the forseeable future. Return from Madjeski Stadium to Reading