Wimbledon Stadium, also known as Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, was a greyhound racing track located in Wimbledon in southwest London, England.[1]
It also hosted stock car and other small circuit motor racing events, and until 2005 hosted motorcycle speedway.[2] The stadium hosted the English Greyhound Derby every year between 1985 and 2016.
Facing declining attendances and with no renovations undertaken for many years, the stadium was put up for sale by the owners, the Greyhound Racing Association, and closed permanently in March 2017. The site was purchased by Galliard Homes Limited,[3] in order to build 600 new apartments and a new football stadium, the new Plough Lane, for AFC Wimbledon.[4][5] The stadium was demolished in 2018 to clear the site for the new development; it was one of London's last remaining greyhound stadia, leaving only Crayford and Romford remaining, and was the third to close since the year 2000 after Catford in 2003 and Walthamstow in 2008.[6]
^"Track Search". Greyhound Board of Great Britain. Archived from the original on 25 December 2011. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
^Bamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). Homes of British Speedway. ISBN 0-7524-2210-3
^"A farewell to Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, London's last dog track". London Evening Standard. 24 March 2017.
^"AFC Wimbledon stadium will be 'the end of greyhound racing', but the sport will fight Plough Lane plans". Wimbledon Guardian.
^"Underdog eat underdog: the victims of football's greatest fairytale". The Guardian. 27 July 2016.
^"Here's what happened to all of the greyhound racing tracks in London". 18 June 2020.
WimbledonStadium, also known as Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, was a greyhound racing track located in Wimbledon in southwest London, England. It also...
Lane, a new stadium on the site of the defunct Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, only 250 yards away from the original Plough Lane, Wimbledon's home until 1991...
Records Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose football stadium in Wimbledon, south-west London, which has been the home of AFC Wimbledon since...
by setting up AFC Wimbledon, to which the vast majority of Wimbledon F.C. fans switched allegiance, in June 2002. A temporary stadium in Milton Keynes...
football club Wimbledon Dons, a former motorcycle speedway team Wimbledon Hockey Club, a field hockey club based in WimbledonWimbledonStadium, a now-demolished...
notable for its video featuring a bicycle race with nude women at WimbledonStadium. The controversial video was edited or even banned in several countries...
event still running. The first title race was held in October 1974 at WimbledonStadium. Plough Lane was the venue for this annual event until 2007 when changes...
of English football club West Ham United and Managing Director of WimbledonStadium. Cearns worked at the famous market in Smithfield, London, aged 14...
It was first held at White City Stadium, but moved to WimbledonStadium in 1985, and then Towcester Greyhound Stadium in 2017, Nottingham in 2019 and...
2021, AFC Wimbledon beat Walton Casuals 7–1 in the FA Cup 3rd qualifying round in their first game at the club's main Plough Lane Stadium. From 2003...
The Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is regarded by many as the most prestigious. It...
Morden and Wimbledon, of which Wimbledon is the largest. Other smaller centres include Raynes Park, Colliers Wood, South Wimbledon and Wimbledon Park. The...
for Wimbledon v Everton on 26 January 1993. List of football stadiums in England List of stadiums in the United Kingdom by capacity Lists of stadiums "Premier...
Greyhound Derby on two successive occasions. He suffered an injury at WimbledonStadium whilst racing which broke the streak in 1931, and once recovered was...
(WimbledonStadium) He achieved all the championship wins in self built/maintained machinery. During the 1972 season he was a member of the Wimbledon Dons...
acclimatises the nearly 15,000-seat stadium for indoor-grass competition. The tournament rules for the Wimbledon fortnight dictate that the roof, once...
English pub, she wanders the deserted bays of Wimbledonstadium's center court. Title: Le Stade de Wimbledon Director: Mathieu Amalric (assisted by Elsa...
Most significantly, he won the "Home" Star Riders' Championship at WimbledonStadium on Monday 21 October, making him the first British Star Rider. Roger...
Wanderers FC. A greyhound racing track, the 'WimbledonStadium', was narrowly in Tooting on Plough Lane. AFC Wimbledon moved to the site in 2021. Tooting has...
The Wimbledon Dons were a professional motorcycle speedway team who operated from the WimbledonStadium, Plough Lane in London. The track opened in 1928...
Global Information
