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Craven Cottage

Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham since 1896.[3] The ground's capacity is 24,500;[1] the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall in 1938.[4] Next to Bishop's Park on the banks of the River Thames,[5] it was originally a royal hunting lodge and has a history dating back over 300 years.[6]

Full name

Craven Cottage

Stevenage Road
Fulham
London
SW6 6HH

London Underground Putney Bridge; Hammersmith

Fulham

Fulham

24,500[1]

49,335 (October 1938)

100 by 65 metres (109.4 yd × 71.1 yd)[1]

Grass (Fibrelastic)

1780 (as a cottage)

1896 (as a stadium)

Archibald Leitch[2]

The stadium has also been used by the United States,[7] Australia,[8] Ireland,[9] and Canada men's national teams,[10] and was formerly the home ground for rugby league club Fulham RLFC.[11]

Record attendance: 49,335 v. ,[4] 8 October 1938 – Division Two

Millwall

Arsenal

now London Broncos, played at Craven Cottage between 1980 and 1984,[11] hosting their largest attendance of 15,013.[44] The ground has also hosted Oxbridge varsity matches in rugby and football.[68]

Fulham RLFC

The ground has hosted the most matches outside of Australia and was one of the pioneers in hosting (neutral) international friendlies.

Australia national team

Fulham were the last team to have standing accommodation in the , as Craven Cottage included terraces in the 2001–02 season – eight years after the Taylor Report outlawed terraces at this level.[17]

Premier League

The original Craven Cottage site was covered in woodlands. One plane tree survives today in a corner of the Putney End,[103] the sole tree to be found in any British senior football stadium.[102]

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On 3 April 2011, Fulham unveiled of Michael Jackson inside the stadium before its match with Blackpool. The singer, who died in 2009, was not a Fulham fan and had no interest in football whatsoever, but attended a Fulham match once, saying "Fulham fans were like people at my concerts. I wanted to jump up and start dancing";[150] and was friends with club chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed, who commissioned the statue.[151][152] In 2013, Al-Fayed stated that the statue will be moved to a different property he owns,[153] though it was eventually moved to the National Football Museum in Manchester in 2014. The statue was removed from public display at that museum in March 2019, likely due to sexual abuse allegations made in the Channel 4/HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, which had aired days before.[154]

a statue

Played on 8 August 2016, ended with Al-Hilal losing 4–3 on penalties to Al-Ahli. The match had no added extra time. It ended 1–1 at 90 minutes.

2016 Saudi Super Cup

The ambient group have recorded a track named 'Dopamine Clouds over Craven Cottage', which contains commentary of a goal scored by former Fulham player Brian McBride, who shares a name with a member of the band.

Stars of the Lid

In October 2023, Ashwater Press (Ken Coton Martin Plumb) published a book 'Craven Cottage – 250 years' which charts the history of the site from 1777 and the first Craven Cottage with its 15 owners, to the present day.

Fulham RLFC

(2005). Engineering Archie: Archibald Leitch – Football Ground Designer. English Heritage. ISBN 1-85074-918-3.

Inglis, Simon

Whitehead, Richard (18 April 2005). . The Times. London.

"Man who built his place in history"

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51°28′30″N 0°13′18″W / 51.47500°N 0.22167°W / 51.47500; -0.22167