Craven Cottage, Football stadium in Fulham, England
Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, on the bank of the Thames beside Bishop's Park, home of Fulham F.C. since 1896. Four stands enclose a rectangular grass pitch: the tall tiered Johnny Haynes Stand, whose dark seats spell out "FULHAM" in white letters, faces a lower covered stand with a pale sloping roof, with a smaller stand behind one goal and a low open terrace on the near side. Capacity is 28,107.
Fulham moved to Craven Cottage in 1896, playing Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup on 10 October that year. After a 1905 court case over safety, Archibald Leitch built the Cottage pavilion and the Stevenage Road Stand in red brick for £15,000. That stand, renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand in 2005, and the Cottage are Grade II listed.
Fulham's players are nicknamed "The Cottagers" after the Cottage, the pavilion Archibald Leitch built in 1905 that still stands between the Putney End and the Riverside Stand. It now serves as a VIP lounge. The Johnny Haynes Stand, renamed in 2005 after the former England captain, keeps Leitch's red brick frontage.
The ground sits about a 15-minute walk from Putney Bridge underground station, with the route passing through Bishops Park along the river. On match days, gates open several hours before kickoff and visitors can wait in the park or along the riverside walkway.
The Cottage itself, built in 1780 by William Craven, sixth Baron Craven, sits between the Putney End and the Riverside Stand and is now used as a VIP lounge. The record crowd of 49,335 watched Fulham play Millwall on 8 October 1938.
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