Edgeley Park
View from the Cheadle End
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| Full name | Edgeley Park Stadium |
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| Location | Hardcastle Road, |
| Coordinates | 53°23′59″N 2°9′59″W / 53.39972°N 2.16639°WCoordinates: 53°23′59″N 2°9′59″W / 53.39972°N 2.16639°W |
| Capacity | 10,841 |
| Field size | 111 x 71 yards |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1901 |
| Opened | 1901 |
| Tenants | |
| (1902–present) Sale Sharks (2003–12) |
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Edgeley Park is a football stadium in Edgeley, , England. It was initially built for rugby league club in 1901. By 1902, the rugby club was defunct and moved in.
Edgeley Park is an all-seater stadium holding 10,900 spectators. Home to for 114 years, it was shared with Sale Sharks rugby union club between 2003 and 2012.
In 2015, purchased the stadium for around £2 million, leasing it back to the football club, in order to prevent it from being demolished and redeveloped.
The stadium was built in 1901 for rugby league club . Stockport County moved there from in 1902, needing to find a bigger stadium to play in following their entrance into the Football League two years earlier. Stockport County's first game at Edgeley Park was a 1-1 draw against Gainsborough Trinity in 1902. have undertaken an entire redevelopment of the ground since moving into the ground, most notably the building of the Cheadle End which opened in 1995.
The Main Stand of the ground, which at the time was made of wood, burned down in a fire in 1935, destroying all of 's previous records; therefore, apart from having to rebuild a significant section of the ground, the club had to undertake a massive task to piece together information about previous results, playing squads, etc.
Following the Bradford City stadium fire in 1985, work began to remove all wooden structures and standing terraces from the stadium, which drastically reduced capacity, but increased safety and ensured that the ground complies to Football League regulations. This work was eventually completed by 2001. The stadium's name is often simply abbreviated to 'EP' by fans.
The record attendance is 27,833, when Liverpool visited Edgeley Park to play in the 5th round of the FA Cup in 1950.
The floodlight system was first used with an opening friendly match against Fortuna '54 Geleen of Holland on 16 October 1956, whose side included four members of the Dutch national team that had defeated Belgium the previous week.
The ground once held two matches by the England international football team on the same day. On 14 January 1958 the England squad were due to play training matches at nearby Maine Road, home of Manchester City but the pitch was frozen. Edgeley Park's pitch was deemed playable so it was decided to hold the matches in Stockport instead.
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