Crown Ground BB5 5BX

Formerly the sports ground for Ewbank Works, the Crown Ground on Livingstone Road became the home of the new Accrington Stanley Football Club.

Aerial image from 1960s showing the ground on the left with both football and cricket pitches plus tennis courts! 

The Crown Ground before the club arrived

First game at the Ground v Formby, August 15th 1970

Dressing Rooms and first ‘Stand’ under construction

Crowds filling the Stand and Clubhouse side of the ground

The Clubhouse with the first ‘Stand’ on the left

Peter McMillan in 1979 and a digger in 1980 trying to solve the ongoing drainage issues

Rebuilding of seating area and clubhouse extension

Seating in front of the clubhouse v Gateshead FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round October 1st 1983

New covered stand next to clubhouse and construction of the cowsheds on the Whinney Hill side of the ground in 1988

Clubhouse extended and new Main Stand 1990s. Floodlights installed in 1986

Coppice End and Clayton End Goals 1990s

The Crown Ground ready for Northern Premier League football in the early 1990s

New roof added over stand and clubhouse and construction of the new Main Stand early 2000s

The Ground during the Conference years

The Crown Ground now a Football League venue in 2007. The roof being added over the Clayton End

Seats removed as the front of the Clayton End reverts back to terracing 2016

New permanent facilities behind the Clayton End including the Fanzone

The Crown Ground in 2016

Cowsheds demolition 2018

The new Eric Whalley Stand takes shape in 2018 and the finished article in 2019

Also in 2018, new floodlights where installed in each corner of the ground. Replacing the old pylons that had been at the ground since floodlights were first used in the 1980s

At the end of the 2018/19 Season the pitch was levelled and relaid with a new drainage system to finally cure the problems that had dogged the Crown Ground for so many years

Work also continued on the re-alignment of Blocks G,H & I of the Jack Barrett Main Stand, replacing the remnants of the old Main Stand

Included in these works was a new ticket office added at the end of the re-worked stand

A vital piece to the current jigsaw was a new PA System covering the whole of the Stadium, which can be heard from miles around

Major redevelopments behind the main stand saw a new hospitality suite built, with the 1968 Lounge and Coley’s Bar

Finally! New changing rooms downstairs, with a management suite and third hospitality area upstairs