Old Trafford

Old Trafford is the one that has never carried anyone's name but its own.

The land and construction, some £90,000 of it, came from club chairman John Henry Davies; the design was Archibald Leitch's, the building work Brameld and Smith's, and the ground opened on 19 February 1910. The South Stand took the worst of a German bombing raid in 1941, and reconstruction ran through 1946 to 1949 on a war-damage payment of £22,278. The North Stand came down again in 1966, rebuilt for the World Cup at a cost of £350,000, its old pillars replaced by a cantilever roof — the same stand that now carries Sir Alex Ferguson's name. Second tiers went up over the North, East and West Stands through the 1990s and 2000s, taking capacity from around 44,000 in 1993 past 80,000 by 2006.

The record crowd, 76,962, dates from 25 March 1939, an FA Cup semi-final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town — United themselves have never filled the ground beyond that mark. The pitch, a Desso GrassMaster hybrid of natural grass and synthetic fibre woven twenty centimetres deep, was relaid in full for the first time since 2012 ahead of the 2024-25 season. Outside football, the Rolling Stones drew a sell-out crowd of 50,000 here in June 2018.