Deva Stadium
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| Full name | Lookers Vauxhall Stadium |
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| Location | Bumpers Lane Chester CH1 4LT |
| Coordinates | 53°11′21″N 2°55′26″W / 53.1892°N 2.9238°WCoordinates: 53°11′21″N 2°55′26″W / 53.1892°N 2.9238°W |
| Owner | Cheshire West and Chester Council |
| Capacity | 5,376 (4,170 Seated) |
| Record attendance | 5,987 |
| Field size | 112 x 71.5 metres |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 26 January 1992 |
| Built | 1992 |
| Opened | 25 August 1992 |
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Chester City F.C. (1992-2010) Chester F.C. (2010-present) Liverpool U21 (2014-2016) |
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| Deva Stadium on Chester FC website | |
The Deva Stadium (also currently known as the Lookers Vauxhall Stadium due to sponsorship reasons) is an association football stadium in the United Kingdom, that is the home of Chester F.C., the effective successor club to the liquidated Chester City F.C. The name Deva comes from the original Roman name for the fort Deva Victrix, which became the city of Chester, in North West England. The Deva Stadium replaced Sealand Road.
When Chester City was taken over by new owners in March 1990, plans were announced to sell its Sealand Road stadium for redevelopment as a supermarket and build a new stadium at Bumpers Lane. While the new stadium was being built they played at the far side of Cheshire at Macclesfield Town F.C.'s Moss Rose stadium. Sealand Road closed at the end of the 1989-90 season, and Chester played at Macclesfield for the next two seasons.
Construction of the new stadium began in January 1992 and it opened seven months later in time for the new 1992-93 season.
It was the first English football stadium to fulfil the safety recommendations from the Taylor Report, which was commissioned after the Bradford Fire of 1985 and after the Hillsborough disaster of 1989.
The stadium was officially opened on 24 August 1992 by Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare.
The stadium hosted its first game on 25 August 1992, when Chester lost 2-1 in the League Cup to Stockport County. 11 days later, Chester beat Burnley 3-0 in the first Football League match on the ground. The stadium was officially opened on 13 October 1992, as Chester beat a Manchester United XI 2-0. Its tenth birthday in August 2002 was celebrated with a special friendly against a Liverpool XI, with Chester winning 1-0.
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