White Hart Lane
Posted on January 28, 2008
Filed Under Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur
Name: White Hart Lane
Nickname: The Lane, WHL
When Built: 1899
Capacity: 36,310
Record Attendance: 75,038 – March 5, 1938 – Tottenham vs Sunderland
Address: 748 High Road, Tottenham, London N17 0AP
Description: The stadium has four all seated stands called after compass direction. The biggest stands are the North and East Stands, each of them have over 10,000 seats. South Stand has 8,573 seats and the smallest stand, the West Stand, has a below 7,000 seats. The stadium’s capacity has reached 36,310 places after small alterations to the seating configuration in 2006.
Brief History: White Hart Lane is Tottenham’s home from 1899. The first match played here was Tottenham vs Notts County, won by Tottenham with 4-1. For almost 70 years the stadium was one of the only brittish stadiums that featured no advertising at all. During time, the stadium had really big attendance, but now it had to be decreased to over 36,000 all-seated. There were a couple of modifications to the stadium and the club likes it’s home a lot. Tottenham ruled out plans to move to a future stadium made for 2012 Olympic Games or a move to Wembley Stadium. Also, in the future, there are several plans to increase the stadium’s capacity to 50-60,000, but these have yet to proceed.
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