Adams Park
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| Former names | Causeway Stadium (sponsored name 2003–2006) |
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| Location | Sands Industrial Estate, Hillbottom Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire |
| Coordinates | 51°37′50″N 0°48′1″W / 51.63056°N 0.80028°WCoordinates: 51°37′50″N 0°48′1″W / 51.63056°N 0.80028°W |
| Owner | Wycombe Wanderers |
| Capacity | 10,300 (9,698 safe capacity) |
| Surface | Desso GrassMaster |
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| Opened | 1990 |
| Expanded | 1996, 2001 |
| Construction cost | £3.5m |
| Tenants | |
| Wycombe Wanderers Wasps Reading Women |
1990–present 2002–2014 2016–present |
Adams Park is an association football stadium in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Built in 1990, it is the home ground of Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
Between 2003 and 2006, the stadium was known as the Causeway Stadium under a naming rights deal, before reverting to its traditional name.
Wycombe Wanderers had sought to leave their home ground at Loakes Park since the 1960s as the site had been earmarked for the site of development of the adjacent Wycombe General Hospital. The club were able to sell the land to the health authority, which almost solely funded the construction of Adams Park.
The ground has a picturesque, rural setting, sitting as it does in a valley at the end of the Sands Industrial Estate, surrounded by green hills on three sides. Whereas Wycombe's previous Loakes Park ground was very close to the town centre, Adams Park is two miles due west of High Wycombe and not hugely accessible either by public or private transport.
The stadium was opened in time for the 1990–91 season, and had a capacity of 6,000 with 1,267 seats in the Main Stand. The ground was named Adams Park in honour of benefactor and former captain Frank Adams. Adams had bought the former ground Loakes Park for the club, whose sale financed the move to the stadium named after him.The new stadium coincided with an upturn in the club's fortunes as, under the guidance of Martin O'Neill, they won the FA Trophy at Wembley thanks to a 2–1 win over Kidderminster Harriers.
The initial licensed capacity of Adams Park was 6,000, however this gradually crept up as Wycombe Wanderers improved the provision of crush barriers on the terraces. Shortly after entering the Football League for the first time in 1993, these upgrades were completed, taking the capacity to around 9,500. In the summer of 1996 the 4,990-seater Woodlands Stand was built on the hill behind the erstwhile Woodlands Terrace. The Hillbottom Road End, where the visiting fans are accommodated, was seated, reducing its capacity from 2,131 standing spaces to 1,049 seats. The latter development had created problems when large amounts of visiting fans came to the ground, outstripping the supply of seats in that end when sides like Watford, Birmingham City and Manchester City visited.The capacity of the stadium was fixed at 10,000 to comply with council regulations, as the positioning of the stadium on a dead-end road was leading to problems when large crowds were leaving the ground, particularly with parking cars in the streets of the nearby residential suburb of Sands.
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