Parks · Northern Ireland
Windsor Park
Windsor Park in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Windsor Park is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The National Football Stadium at Windsor Park (officially the Clearer Twist National Stadium at Windsor Park for sponsorship reasons), or the National Football Stadium, also known as Windsor Park is a football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of Linfield who own the land the stadium is built on, while the Irish Football Association own and operate the stadium and pay Linfield an annual rental fee for the use of the land on behalf of the Northern Ireland national football team. The stadium is usually where the Irish Cup final is played.
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Background
History
Named after the district in south Belfast in which it is located, Windsor Park was first opened in 1905, with a match between Linfield and Glentoran. The first major development of the stadium took place in the 1930s, to a design made by the Scottish architect Archibald Leitch. It had one main seated stand – the Grandstand, later known as the South Stand – with "reserved" terracing in front, and a large open terrace behind the goal to the west called the Spion Kop. To the north, there was a long covered terrace – the "unreserved" terracing – and behind the eastern goal at the Railway End another covered terrace. Windsor Park's peak capacity in this format was 60,000. In the early 1960s, the…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5825, -5.9550
- Address
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Established
- 1903
- Official site
- www.irishfa.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q1049601 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Windsor Park (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Windsor Park?
- Windsor Park is in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
- When was Windsor Park built?
- Built or established in 1903.
- Who owns Windsor Park?
- Windsor Park is owned by Irish Football Association (stadium)<br />Linfield (land).