The Den
View from the north stand in 2009
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| Former names | The New Den Senegal Fields The New London Stadium |
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| Location |
Bermondsey London, SE16 England |
| Coordinates | 51°29′9.43″N 0°3′3.42″W / 51.4859528°N 0.0509500°WCoordinates: 51°29′9.43″N 0°3′3.42″W / 51.4859528°N 0.0509500°W |
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 South Bermondsey
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| Capacity | 20,146 |
| Field size | 106 x 68 m (344 × 223 ft) |
| Surface | Fibresand grass |
| Scoreboard | Yes |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1992-93 |
| Opened | 4 August 1993 |
| Construction cost | £16 million |
| Tenants | |
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Millwall F.C. (1993–present) Millwall Lionesses L.F.C. (2015–present) |
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The Den (previously The New Den) is a football stadium in Bermondsey, south-east London, and the home of Millwall Football Club. It is situated adjacent to the South London railway line originating at London Bridge, and a quarter-of-a-mile from The Old Den, which it replaced in 1993. Built on a previous site of housing, a church and the Senegal Fields playgrounds, it has an all-seated capacity of 20,146, with the highest match attendance during the 2015–16 season being 16,301.
The Den is the sixth ground that Millwall have occupied since their formation in the Millwall area of the Isle of Dogs in 1885.
The New Den, as it was initially known to distinguish it from its predecessor, was the first new all-seater stadium in England to be completed after the Taylor Report on the Hillsborough disaster of 1989. It was designed with effective crowd management in mind (particularly given Millwall's crowd problems at The Old Den), with the escape routes being short and direct. After chairman Reg Burr decided that it would not be viable to redevelop The Old Den as an all-seater stadium, he announced in 1990 that the club would relocate to a new stadium in the Senegal Fields area in south Bermondsey. Originally, it was planned to have a seating capacity of between 25,000 and 30,000, however, the club opted to wait so the capacity was kept to just over 20,000.
Millwall played their final game at The Old Den on 8 May 1993 after 83 years and then moved to the new stadium a quarter-of-a-mile away from Cold Blow Lane. The £16 million New Den was opened by John Smith, the leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition at the time, on 4 August 1993 prior to a prestigious friendly against Sporting Portugal, which Sporting won 2–1. The Den was the first new stadium constructed for a professional football team in London since 1937.
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