Editing Manchester United F.C. (section)

===1910–present: Old Trafford===
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Following Manchester United's first league title in 1908 and the FA Cup a year later, it was decided that Bank Street was too restrictive for Davies' ambition;<ref name="inglis_234"/> in February 1909, six weeks before the club's first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was named as the home of Manchester United, following the purchase of land for around £60,000. Architect [[Archibald Leitch]] was given a budget of £30,000 for construction; original plans called for seating capacity of 100,000, though budget constraints forced a revision to 77,000.<ref>Inglis, pp. 234–235</ref><ref>White (2007), p. 50</ref> The building was constructed by Messrs Brameld and Smith of Manchester. The stadium's record attendance was registered on 25 March 1939, when an FA Cup semi-final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and [[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]] drew 76,962&nbsp;spectators.<ref>Rollin and Rollin, pp. 254–255.</ref>

Bombing in the Second World War destroyed much of the stadium; the central tunnel in the South Stand was all that remained of that quarter. After the war, the club received compensation from the [[War Damage Commission]] in the amount of £22,278. While reconstruction took place, the team played its "home" games at Manchester City's [[Maine Road]] ground; Manchester United was charged £5,000 per year, plus a nominal percentage of gate receipts.<ref>White, John (2007), p. 11.</ref> Later improvements included the addition of roofs, first to the Stretford End and then to the North and East Stands. The roofs were supported by pillars that obstructed many fans' views, and they were eventually replaced with a [[cantilever]]ed structure. The Stretford End was the last stand to receive a cantilevered roof, completed in time for the [[1993–94 Manchester United F.C. season|1993–94 season]].<ref name="barnes_19"/> First used on 25 March 1957 and costing £40,000, four {{convert|180|ft|m|adj=on}} pylons were erected, each housing 54&nbsp;individual floodlights. These were dismantled in 1987 and replaced by a lighting system embedded in the roof of each stand, which remains in use today.<ref>Barnes et al. (2001), pp. 44–45.</ref>

The [[Taylor Report]]'s requirement for an all-seater stadium lowered capacity at Old Trafford to around 44,000 by 1993. In 1995, the North Stand was redeveloped into three tiers, restoring capacity to approximately 55,000. At the end of the 1998–99 season, second tiers were added to the East and West Stands, raising capacity to around 67,000, and between July 2005 and May 2006, 8,000 more seats were added via second tiers in the north-west and north-east quadrants. Part of the new seating was used for the first time on 26 March 2006, when an attendance of 69,070 became a new Premier League record.<ref>{{cite news |title=Man Utd 3–0 Birmingham |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4820120.stm |work=BBC Sport |date=26 March 2006 |access-date=29 January 2011 |archive-date=25 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725212757/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/4820120.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> The record was pushed steadily upwards before reaching its peak on 31 March 2007, when 76,098 spectators saw Manchester United beat [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]] 4–1, with just 114 seats (0.15&nbsp;per&nbsp;cent of the total capacity of 76,212) unoccupied.<ref>{{cite news |first=Nick |last=Coppack |title=Report: United 4 Blackburn 1 |url=http://www.manutd.com/en/Fixtures-And-Results/Match-Reports/2007/Mar/Report-United-4-Blackburn-1.aspx |work=Manchester United |date=31 March 2007 |access-date=3 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216043425/http://www.manutd.com/en/Fixtures-And-Results/Match-Reports/2007/Mar/Report-United-4-Blackburn-1.aspx |archive-date=16 December 2011 }}</ref> In 2009, reorganisation of the seating resulted in a reduction of capacity by 255 to 75,957.<ref name="inside_united">Morgan (2010), pp. 44–48.</ref><ref name="record_gate">{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Bartram |title=OT100 #9: Record gate |url=http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/The-OT-100-News/2009/Nov/OT100-9-Record-gate.aspx |work=Manchester United |date=19 November 2009 |access-date=3 December 2010 |archive-date=16 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216030119/http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/The-OT-100-News/2009/Nov/OT100-9-Record-gate.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> Manchester United has the second highest average attendance among European football clubs, behind only [[Borussia Dortmund]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Barclays Premier League Stats: Team Attendance – 2012–13 |url=http://www.espnfc.com/barclays-premier-league/23/statistics/performance?season=2012 |work=ESPN FC |date=3 May 2013 |access-date=11 May 2013 |archive-date=15 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715144130/http://www.espnfc.com/barclays-premier-league/23/statistics/performance?season=2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=German Bundesliga Stats: Team Attendance – 2012–13 |url=http://www.espnfc.com/german-bundesliga/10/statistics/performance?season=2012 |work=ESPN |access-date=11 May 2013 |archive-date=15 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715121520/http://www.espnfc.com/german-bundesliga/10/statistics/performance?season=2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Spanish La Liga Stats: Team Attendance – 2012–13 |url=http://www.espnfc.com/spanish-primera-division/15/statistics/performance?season=2012 |work=ESPN |access-date=11 May 2013 |archive-date=15 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715145857/http://www.espnfc.com/spanish-primera-division/15/statistics/performance?season=2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>