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 Crowd at the Gay Meadow on 25 February 2006 | |
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| Full name | Gay Meadow |
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| Location | Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury SY2 6AB |
| Capacity | 8,000 (3,639 seated) |
| Field size | 114 x 74 yards |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1910 |
| Opened | 1910 |
| Closed | 2007 |
| Tenants | |
| Shrewsbury Town (1910–2007) | |
Gay Meadow was a football ground in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, serving as the home ground of Shrewsbury Town. Located on the banks of the River Severn, it opened in 1910.
The ground closed at the end of the 2006-07 Football League season and the club moved to a new stadium, provisionally titled The New Meadow, on the outskirts of the town.
Local legend says that over 22,000 were inside the stadium for the league match against Wrexham on 21 August 1950, although the official figure is given as 16,000. The official record attendance is 18,917, set on 26 April 1961 against local rivals Walsall. Because it had only one entrance/exit road, in the years following the Taylor Report the capacity of the ground was reduced from 16,000 to around 8,000.