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Gay Meadow
Crowd at the Gay Meadow on 25 February 2006
Map
Full nameGay Meadow
LocationAbbey Foregate
Shrewsbury
SY2 6AB
Capacity8,000 (3,639 seated)
Field size114 x 74 yards
Construction
Built1910
Opened1910
Closed2007
Tenants
Shrewsbury Town F.C. (1910–2007)

Gay Meadow was the home ground of Shrewsbury Town football club in Shropshire, England. Just outside the town centre, 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 A.F.C on 21 August 1950, although the official figure is given as 16,000. The official record attendance is 18,917, 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.

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