Bramall Lane

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Milestones

• 1855: The ground at Bramall Lane built for cricket.
• 1878: First floodlit game played between "Reds" and "Blues"
• 1896: A new John Street Stand built with room for 6000 both seated and standing.
• 1897: A new Shoreham Street Stand built.
• 1900: A new cricket pavilion built.
• 1901: Cycle track removed.
• 1911: Roof added to the Bramall Lane End.
• 1935: Roof added to the Kop. Running track built in front of John Street Stand.
• 1940: The ground damaged in Sheffield Blitz. John Street was badly affected and the Kop roof damaged.
• 1953: Floodlights installed.
• 1966: Bramall Lane Stand opened.
• 1975: South Stand opened.
• 1981: Cricket pavilion demolished.
• 1991: Seats installed in Kop.
• 1994: John Street demolished. Seats added to lower tier of Bramall Lane End.
• 1995: New pylon-less floodlights installed.
• 1996: New John Street Stand opened.
• 2001: New corner stand holding 1,000 fans opened between shoreham st & John street.
• 2002: Blades Enterprise Centre is built between John Street and Bramall Lane.
• 2005: Wooden seats removed from South Stand.
• 2006: New corner opens between Cherry Street and Bramall Lane. Bramall Lane end cantilevered.
• 2008 : New hotel built on the corner of the south stand and Bramall lane end.

The ground today

The stands

The ground has been an all-seater stadium since 1994 and is now made up of four main stands and two corner infill stands in the North-East and South-West corners. The North-West corner (as well as a lot of the land under the John Street Stand) contains the Blades Enterprise Centre, and the South-East corner is still open, although there are plans to fill it with seating as part of the strategy to build a leisure complex at the back of the South Stand.

Bramall Lane Stand

Now sponsored by Halliwell's, this is the oldest existing stand at Bramall Lane, this two-tiered structure was opened in 196

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