North Greenwich was a football ground and the home of Millwall Athletic Football Club from 1901–1910, the team who went on to become

Millwall Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Limehouse, north of Greenwich and Deptford, eas ...

. It was situated on the

Isle of Dogs The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England, which includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts. The area was historically part of the Manor, Ha ...

, East London. It was the fourth stadium that Millwall have occupied since their formation as a football club in 1885, and their last East London ground before they moved to South London. Millwall played 249 games in all competitions at North Greenwich, winning 153, losing 46 and with 50 drawn.

History

Millwall Athletic were forced to leave their third ground, The Athletic Grounds after the Millwall Dock Company told them they wanted to use it as a timberyard. The last game at the Athletic Grounds was a 4–0 win over

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on 27 April 1901 in the Western League. Millwall relocated for the start of the 1901–02 season to a location near their second home, which became known as North Greenwich. Their first game at North Greenwich was against

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on 21 September 1901, which they lost 3–2. The Game was watched by 6,000 people. The last ever first-team game played on the Isle of Dogs was on 10 October 1910 against Woolwich Arsenal in the London Challenge Cup. Millwall won the game 1–0 in front of a crowd of 3000. Millwall Park now covers the land the ground used to stand on, and the railway viaduct forms part of the

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. During the early 1900s supporters found it difficult to get on to the island to watch games, with severe congestion caused by increasing traffic in

Millwall Docks Millwall Dock is a dock at Millwall, London, England, located south of Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs. History The scheme was developed speculatively by a partnership of John Kelk and John Aird & Co.'The Millwall Docks: The docks', in Sur ...

. The

Blackwall Tunnel The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, England, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and part of the A102 road. The northern portal lies just south ...

opened in 1897 and the

Greenwich Foot Tunnel The Greenwich Foot Tunnel crosses beneath the River Thames in East London, linking Greenwich (Royal Borough of Greenwich) on the south bank with Millwall (London Borough of Tower Hamlets) on the north. Approximately 4,000 people use the tunnel ...

in 1902 but due to lack of expansion space in the

area of East London, Millwall moved to South London in 1910 and into their ground,

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Attendances

The record attendance at North Greenwich was 16,285 in the

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, in a 1–0 win against Woolwich Arsenal on 10 February 1909 in a Second round replay.

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