English soccer stadium, home of
Sheffield United.
Bramall Lane had long been used as a
cricket and
football ground long before
Sheffield United took residency there. Indeed, their bitter city
rivals Sheffield Wednesday were the previous
tenants prior to their move to
Hillsborough.
The ground was
Sheffield's venue for
Yorkshire county cricket until the
1970s, when United decided to build a new
stand over the top of the
cricket pitch, thus ending
Sheffield's association with
Yorkshire cricket. Ironically, the new stand
crippled the club financially, a burden from which they have never fully recovered.