Bloomfield Road

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Bloomfield Road
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Full name	Bloomfield Road
Owners	Segesta Ltd.
Location	Seasiders Way Blackpool
Opened	28 October 1899
Renovated	1999–2002, 2009–2010, 2011–2012
Tenants	South Shore F.C.: 1899 Blackpool F.C.: 1900, 1901–present Blackpool Borough: 1987 Blackpool Panthers: 2004–2006
Capacity	17,338
Field dimensions	112 x 74 yards (102.4 x 67.7 metres)
Highest attendance	38,098 (1955; pre-redevelopment) 16,116 (2010; during redevelopment)

Bloomfield Road is a 17,338-capacity all-seater football stadium in the English town of Blackpool, Lancashire. It has been the permanent home of Blackpool F.C. since 1901 and is named after the road on which the stadium's main entrance used to stand. The stadium has been in a process of redevelopment since 2000. June of that year saw the demolition of the Spion Kop at the north end of the ground; an all-seated stand has now replaced it. The rebuilding of the West Stand was completed in August 2002. In March 2010, the South Stand, whose original structure was pulled down in 2003, was opened by Jimmy Armfield, the former Blackpool player for whom the stand is named. A temporary East Stand opened on 28 August 2010 with a capacity of 5,120 seats, initially increasing capacity to 16,220 with further hospitality seating in the South Stand to be installed later in the year. Bloomfield Road is the 51st-largest stadium by capacity in England and the third-smallest in the Championship.