Huish Park
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| Huish Park | |
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| The Slope, 'Where Giants are Slayed' | |
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| Full name | Huish Park Stadium |
| Location | Lufton Wy, Lufton, Yeovil |
| Opened | 1990 |
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| Tenants | Yeovil Town F.C. |
| Capacity | 9,400 (5,212 Seated) |
| Field dimensions | 115 x 72 yards |
Huish Park is a football stadium in Yeovil, home ground of Yeovil Town F.C.. The current stadium is in the suburbs of Yeovil, having replaced the old Huish ground in 1990. The old ground had a side-to-side slope (similar to Underhill) and is now a Tesco supermarket, which leads to the usual pre-match jokes about trollies rolling down it. It was also parodied in a documentary style drama, about a fictional football team who were bottom of the first division, but won the FA cup. The slope was exaggerated on, so it was really steep which went in the teams favour.
The ground has two seated stands (the Cowlin Stand and the AgustaWestland Community Stand) and two standing ones (the Carlsberg Stand and Blackthorn Terrace, the latter being the away stand). The record attendance at this ground to date is 9,527 v Leeds United on the 25th of April 2008 in League One.
Recently, Huish Park played host to an England U18 match. England were playing the Holland U18 team and comfortably won the tie 4-1 with the presence of Daniel Sturridge and Scott Sinclair.
