Meadow Lane

Ground Name: Meadow Lane
Capacity: 20,300
Address: Meadow Lane, Nottingham, NG2 3HJ
Pitch Size: 114 x 76 yards
Year Opened: 1910
Record Attendance: 47,310 v York City
FA Cup 6th Round, March 12th, 1955.

Meadow Lane is the 20,300 capacity home ground of Notts County. It lies just three hundred yards away from the City Ground, home of local rivals Nottingham Forest, making the two grounds the closest in England.

Prior to 1910, Notts County had played their home games at Trent Bridge cricket ground, but the overlapping cricket and football seasons made this unworkable and County leased a plot of land from the Council and hastily erected a new stadium which was ready for use by September 1910.

The first game was a Nottingham Derby watched by 28,000 spectators.

There were various developments over the years but by the 1980s the stadium became increasingly dilapidated, and following the release of the Taylor Report a major re-vamp of Meadow Lane took place during the early 1990s.

The Meadow Lane End, County Road Stand and Spion Kop were all demolished in the 1992 close season and replaced with the Family Stand, the Jimmy Sirrel Stand and the Spion Kop Stand respectively.

The Main Stand was replaced by the Derek Pavis Stand during the close season of 1994. Return from Meadow Lane to Notts County