Glanford Park

Glanford Park is a football stadium in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, and is the current home of Scunthorpe United.Opened in 1988 at a construction cost of £2.5 million, Glanford Park was the first new purpose-built Football League stadium to be built in England for 33 years, since Southend United moved to Roots Hall in 1955.The stadium is Scunthorpe’s second ground, with the Iron having previously played at the Old Showground from 1899 to 1988. The ground’s record attendance was set at 9,077 for a Carling Cup Second Round tie against Manchester United on 22 September 2010.HistoryScunthorpe United originally played at the Old Showground, which was located towards the centre of the town at the junction of Doncaster Road and Henderson Avenue. In the wake of the Bradford City disaster of 1985, it was determined that substantial improvements would have to be made to the Old Showground in order for it to meet new regulations, improvements which the club could not afford. Ultimately it was decided that the best course of action was to relocate to a new out of town site, with the sale of the land occupied by the Old Showground being used to raise much needed revenue for the club. After the club relocated, the Old Showground was demolished and replaced by a Safeway supermarket, which was subsequently sold to Sainsbury's in 2004.