The Abbey Stadium

at Newmarket Road, Cambridge , CB5 8LN United Kingdom

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2. Sports Venue & Stadium

<p>The <b>R Costings Abbey Stadium</b> known colloquially as <b>Abbey Stadium</b>, is a <a href="/pages/w/108501195841933">football</a> <a href="/pages/w/112151772129899">stadium</a> in <a href="/pages/w/103096889730909">Cambridge</a>, England. It has been the home ground of <a href="/pages/w/107612079261493">Cambridge United F.C.</a> since 1932, and currently has a maximum <a href="/pages/w/102283963159621">capacity</a> of 8,127 spectators. <a href="/pages/w/103149459725082">Cambridge Regional College F.C.</a>, Cambridge United's feeder club, played their home games at The Abbey from 2006 until their dissolution in 2014.</p><p>The first match ever played at the Abbey was a <a href="/pages/w/109838589039623">friendly</a> against a team from <a href="/pages/w/140550699290759">Cambridge University Press</a> on 31 August 1932. The record attendance at the ground (14,000) was also for a friendly, against <a href="/pages/w/104055132963391">Chelsea</a> to mark the first use of the ground's new floodlights on 1 May 1970. This was the first time an English League ground's record crowd had turned out to watch a friendly.</p><h2>History</h2><p>Abbey United had moved to <a href="/pages/w/138650849497025">Parker's Piece</a> at the start of the <a href="/pages/w/138878402803575">1930–31</a> season. Despite the special significance of Parker's Piece in the history of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_" class="wikipedia">football</a>, it being the first place where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Rules" class="wikipedia">Cambridge Rules</a> were played out, the lack of spectator capacity and disruption caused during games meant this move was not a successful one.</p><p>Henry Francis, then president of the club, offered United a lifeline in 1931 when he donated land he had acquired to the club, and erected a grandstand and changing rooms on it. This land, where United have been resident since, was close to one of the club's former grounds where, with the approval of the Cambridgeshire FA, the club played while the new ground was being prepared. The first match at the newly constructed Abbey was played on 31 August 1932 against <a href="/pages/w/140550699290759">Cambridge University Press</a>. A grandstand was not opened until March 1934, and subsequent stands were constructed between a period of many years up until 1954 when the final terrace, on the west of the ground , was completed.</p>

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The Abbey Stadium is Cambridge based place and this enity listed in Sports Venue & Stadium category. Located at Newmarket Road CB5 8LN. Contact phone number of The Abbey Stadium: 01223 566 500