Amex Stadium
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The Stadium at night
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| Full name | American Express Community Stadium |
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| Location | Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, England |
| Owner | The Community Stadium Limited |
| Operator | Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. |
| Capacity | 30,750 |
| Record attendance | 30,338 (vs Bristol City, 29 April 2017) |
| Field size | 105 m × 69 m (344 ft × 226 ft) |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Built | December 2008 |
| Opened | July 2011 |
| Construction cost | £93 million |
| Architect | KSS Design Group |
| General contractor | Buckingham Group |
| Tenants | |
| Brighton & Hove Albion (2011–) | |
| Website | |
| http://www.amexstadium.co.uk/ | |
Falmer Stadium, currently known for sponsorship purposes as the American Express Community Stadium, or simply The Amex Stadium, is a football stadium in the village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove, Sussex, that serves as the home of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.. The stadium was handed over from the developers to the club on 31 May 2011. The first competitive game to be played at the stadium was the 2010–11 season final of the Sussex Senior Cup between Brighton and Eastbourne Borough on 16 July 2011. The first ever league game was against Doncaster Rovers, who were also the opponents in the last ever game played at Brighton's former stadium, the Goldstone Ground, 14 years earlier.
Falmer Stadium will host Premier League football for the first time beginning in August 2017. Brighton & Hove Albion earned promotion from the Football League Championship on 17 April 2017.
The plans were initiated by Brighton & Hove Albion after the club's previous home, the Goldstone Ground, was sold by the club's former board (consisting of Greg Stanley, Bill Archer and David Bellotti) to developers in 1995 with no new home arranged.
When the club was evicted at the end of the 1996–1997 season, it ground-shared for two seasons at Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium, 75 miles away in Kent.
Two years later, the club returned to Brighton as tenants of Withdean Stadium, which was upgraded to Football League capacity requirements and later expanded when Brighton reached Division One (now the Football League Championship) in 2002 following two successive promotions.
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