Eton Park was an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
stadium located in
Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011, it had a ...
,
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. It was the home ground of
Burton Albion F.C.
Burton Albion Football Club is a professional association football club in the town of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The club moved its home groun ...
from 1958 to 2005 when they moved to the £7.2 million
Pirelli Stadium
Pirelli Stadium is an association football stadium on Princess Way in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. It was built in 2005 and is the current home of Burton Albion FC
Burton Albion Football Club is a professional association foo ...
. The Brewers moved to the ground on 20 September 1958, coinciding with their promotion to the
Southern League, and by the time of their departure 47 years later, they were members of the
Conference
A conference is a meeting of two or more experts to discuss and exchange opinions or new information about a particular topic.
Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, are the main p ...
.
In 1972 the ground hosted the second final of the WFA Cup (forerunner of the
Women's FA Cup
The Women's FA Challenge Cup Competition is the top annual cup tournament for women's clubs in English football. Founded in 1970, it has been named the WFA Cup, FA Women's Cup and now Women's FA Cup (Vitality Women's FA Cup for sponsorship rea ...
), between
Southampton Women and
Lee's Ladies, with an attendance of 1,500.
References
Burton Albion F.C.
Defunct football venues in England
Sports venues in Staffordshire
Sports venues completed in 1958
Buildings and structures in Burton upon Trent
Sports venues demolished in 2005
Demolished sports venues in the United Kingdom
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