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Oldham
Athletic
Ground Name: Boundary
Park Capacity: 10,638 (all seated) Address:
Boundary Park, Oldham, OL1 2PA Main Telephone
No: 0871 226 2235 Fax No:
0871 226 1715 Ticket Office: 0871 226
1653 Pitch Size: 106 x 72 yards Team
Nickname: The Latics Year Ground Opened:
1906 Home Kit Colours: Blue
With White Trim Away Kit Colours: Navy &
Orange 3rd Kit Colours: Lime Green &
Black Kit Sponsors: Carbrini
Sportswear Kit Manufacturers:
Carbrini Official Web Sites: www.oldhamathletic.co.uk Official Fans
Forum Unofficial Web Sites: Latics Supporters Club
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What's The Ground
Like? Future
Developments Looking Towards
The Chadderton Road Stand (photo) What Is It Like For
Visiting Supporters? Rochdale
Road Stand (photo) Where To Drink? Main Stand (photo) How To Get There
By Car & Where To Park By Train Admission Prices Programme Price Ground Layout Local Rivals Disabled Facilities Fixtures 2009-2010 Record & Average
Attendance Fans Ground Reviews Hotel
Accommodation Feedback
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| What's The Ground
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The ground at the moment is comprised of just three
sides, as the Club demolished the Broadway Stand on one side of the
stadium. This was in preparation for the building of a new 5,200
capacity Main Stand. However, this plan has now been shelved for the
time being and the Club are now exploring the possibility of moving
to a new stadium.
At one end is the
comparatively new Rochdale Road End, a good sized all seater covered
stand with an excellent view of the pitch. It has windshields to
either side of it and an electric scoreboard on its roof. Part of
this stand is given to away supporters. The other end, the
Chadderton Road Stand (also known as the 'Chaddy
End'), is a medium sized all seater covered stand. Again
there are windshields to either side, but the elderly nature of this
stand is apparent from the supporting pillars running across the
front of it. On one side there is an old two tiered Main Stand. This
used to have terracing in front, since filled with seating. There is
still some old unused terracing on one side of this stand. Opposite is currently a building site as a new stand is
being constructed. The ground also benefits from four large
floodlight pylons, leaving the visitor in no doubt that this is a
football ground. The Club has a mascot called 'Chaddy The Champion
Owl'.
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Terry Doran informs me; 'The
Club is proposing to build a new stadium in the Failsworth district
of the Oldham Borough. The proposal is at the pre-Planning
stage, but if all goes according to plan, the new stadium could be
operational for the 2011/12 season. When the new
stadium is operational, Boundary Park will be demolished and
sold for residential re-development'.
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| Looking Towards The Chadderton Road
Stand |
Please note that since
this photo as taken, the Broadway Stand on the right has been
demolished.
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| What Is It Like For
Visiting Supporters? |
Away
fans are housed in the Rochdale Road Stand at one end of the
ground. This stand is split between a larger
section on side, which houses 3,000 fans and a smaller section on
the other side which houses 1,600 supporters. It is intended with
the development of the stadium that this season the stand will be
shared between home and away fans. For most games away supporters
will be given the smaller section (shown as Away 1 on the ground
layout below), whilst for some clubs that have a larger following
then the bigger section will be allocated (shown as Away 2 on the
ground layout below). The sections are kept separate by a
large moat like gap, which certainly makes
for a lot of banter. The facilities in this newish stand are fairly
good, as are the acoustics. If you get chance, make sure to try a
Pukka pie (£1.50). Some fans reckon that this is the best part of a
visit to Boundary Park.
This club I found to be particularly
friendly. They have an unofficial motto that 'the only club we hate
is Man United', everyone else is very welcome. The only complaint
that I had about visiting the ground was that it always seems to be
cold, with a biting wind that goes right through you. This is due to
Oldham being on the edge of the Pennines.
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| Rochdale Road Stand |
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| Where To Drink? |
| The closest pub is the Clayton Green, which is a
Brewers Fayre and can be found two hundred yards from the
corner of the Main Stand and the Chaddy End, on Sheepfoot Lane.
There is also the Greyhound pub, which is across Broadway down
Holden Fold Lane.
Chippy Lees, an
exiled Latics fans in Cornwall, recommends the following; "The Old
Grey Mare on Rochdale Road is worth a visit. If you walk to the top
of Sheepfoot Lane and turn left at the newspaper shop, the pub is
about 100 yards down the road on the right. There's a varied
selection of beers available, and again a warm welcome is assured.
Further down on the right is The White Hart. If you turn right at
the top of Sheepfoot Lane, you'll eventually come to The Queens.
It's on the corner of a junction. It was frequented by several West
Ham fans one night, who found the beer to be so good, and cheap
compared to London prices, that they decided to stay there for the
rest of the evening. It was just as well, as it was the usual bone
chilling night, and they lost!"
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Main
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| How To Get There
By Car & Where To Park |
Leave the M62 at
Junction 20 and take the A627(M) towards Oldham. Take the second
slip road off the A627(M) following the signs for Royton (A663). At
the top of the slip road you will find a large roundabout that
around it has a McDonalds and a KFC. Turn left at the roundabout
onto the A663 towards Royton (beware though of 30mph speed cameras
on this stretch). You will be able to see Boundary Park over on your
right. Take the next right hand turn into Hilbre Avenue which will
take you up to the large Club car park, situated behind the Lookers
Stand. The cost of the car park is; cars £3, mini bus £5, coaches
£10.
If you want to go straight to the Club main entrance,
then at the roundabout take the second exit onto A627 Chadderton Way
(signposted Oldham). After around 300 yards take the first left into
Boundary Park Road and at the end of the road turn right into
Sheepfoot Lane.
For a map showing the
location of the ground click here
(to take you to the Street Map
website).
To go to a simplified page, containing the
directions and pub info, which you can print out click here.
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| By
Train |
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Due to improvement works to the line
from Manchester, the two closest stations to the ground, Oldham
Mumps and Oldham Werneth are both currently closed. This leaves only
Oldham Mill Hills station, but this is some 45 minutes walk away
from the ground, so it is somewhat impractical.
Jon Brierley
adds; 'Alternatively, rather than getting a train from Manchester to
Oldham, you may find it easier to take a bus from Manchester
Piccadilly Bus Station. Services numbers 24,
181 & 182 make the 25 minute trip to Oldham and go past the
ground. They operate six buses an hour on Saturday afternoons,
with three an hour on evenings and Sundays. Alternatively, fans from the Yorkshire
direction might like to consider taking a train to Rochdale (direct
services from York, Leeds, Bradford & Halifax) and then
continuing to Boundary Park on bus 409 (every 10 minutes Saturday
daytime, journey time 25 minutes)'.
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| Admission Prices |
Home Fans*: Pentagon
Vauxhall Main Stand (Upper): Adults £20, OAP's/Under 16's £11, Pentagon Vauxhall Main Stand (Lower): Adults £19,
OAP's/Under 16's £11 Detect All Alarms Chadderton Road Stand: Adults
£20, OAP's/Under 16's £11
Under 12's £3, Leesfield
Developments Rochdale Road End: Adults £20,
OAP's/Under 16's £11, Under 12's £3.
Away Fans*: Leesfield Developments Rochdale Road
End: Adults £20, OAP's/Under 16's £11, Under 12's £3.
* A discount of £2 is
available on these ticket prices, if the ticket is purchased prior
to matchday (except Under 12's in the Chadwick/Rochdale Road
Ends).
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| Programme Price |
| Official Programme
£3
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Ground Layout |
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| Local Rivals |
| Manchester United, Manchester City &
Stockport.
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| Disabled
Facilities |
| For details of disabled facilities at the
ground please visit the relevant page on the National Association Of
Disabled Supporters (NADS) website.
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| Fixtures 2009-2010 |
| For the
Oldham fixture list click here (to take you to the BBC Sports Website)
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| Record & Average
Attendance |
47,671
v Sheffield Wednesday FA Cup 5th Round, January 25th,
1930.
Modern All Seated Attendance
Record: 13,171 v Manchester City FA Cup 3rd Round, January
8th, 2005.
Average
Attendance: 2008-2009: 5,636 (League One) 2007-2008: 5,326 (League One) 2006-2007: 6,334 (League One)
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| Fans Reviews Of Boundary
Park |
| Dan Portch (Leicester
City) 18/10/08
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| Hotel
Accommodation |
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| Feedback |
If
anything is incorrect or you have something to add, please e-mail
me and I'll update the guide.
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