Manor Ground, Plumstead
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| Full name | Manor Ground |
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| Location | Plumstead, London, England |
| Owner | Royal/Woolwich Arsenal |
| Capacity | 33,000 [1] |
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| Opened | 1888 |
| Closed | 1913 |
| Demolished | c. 1913 |
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| Royal/Woolwich Arsenal (1888-1890, 1893-1913) | |
Coordinates: 51°29′29″N 0°05′14″E / 51.49139°N 0.08722°E The Manor Ground in Plumstead, south east London was a football stadium which, between 1888 and 1890, and 1893 and 1913, was the home of the football club formerly known as Royal Arsenal, renamed Woolwich Arsenal in 1893, and later simply Arsenal F.C. soon after they moved across London to Arsenal Stadium, Highbury.
Under their original name of Dial Square, the club's very first match in December 1886 was on a field in the Isle of Dogs, most likely by Glengall Road (now known as Tiller Road). After that, for the rest of the 1886-87 season, the newly renamed team Royal Arsenal played on Plumstead Common. They moved in September 1887 to a pig field on Plumstead Marshes, which was renamed the Sportsman Ground after the Sportsman pub nearby. They continued to play there for the next six months.
In 1888, after the Sportsman Ground had flooded, the club moved to the adjoining Manor Field (as it was originally known), which was soon renamed Manor Ground. The pitch was notoriously muddy and on its southern side ran the Southern Outfall Sewer. There were no stands as such; the club used wagons borrowed from nearby Army bases to house spectators. The club's first match there was against Millwall Rovers, on 30 March 1888; it finished 3-0 to Arsenal.
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