page_title: Vale Park
section_title: Structure and facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Vale Park / Structure and facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Vale Park, Burslem, near to Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Great Britain. Aberdeen and Port Vale fans, happily mixed together, applauding their teams before the start of a friendly match on a warm summer&#39;s evening. Aberdeen won 1-0.
context_page_description: Vale Park is a football stadium in Stoke-on-Trent, England. It has been the home ground of Port Vale F.C. since 1950.
  The ground has seen its capacity go up and down, its peak being 42,000 in February 1954 against Blackpool, although a club record 49,768 managed to squeeze in for a 1960 FA Cup fifth round fixture against Aston Villa. It now has a notional capacity of just over 19,000, though has rarely seen more than 10,000 spectators since major restructuring to make the stadium an all-seater venue in the 1990s.
context_section_description: The current stadium holds 19,052 supporters and has four stands: Lorne Street opposite to the Railway Paddock, and the Bycars End facing the Hamil Road End. The Lorne Street Stand is relatively new, seating 5,000 when complete (2,500 before completion), with 48 executive boxes. It was not completed when it opened, however 1,500 seats were installed in the lorne street stand in April 2020. At the time of the stadium's construction it was intended to be the grandstand. It contains the stadium's main entrance, dressing rooms, club offices and enterprise centre. The away stand has a capacity of 4,500. It holds the electronic scoreboard.
caption: The Away Stand.
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