I Visited The World's OLDEST Football Stadium... Or Did I?

[@FootyAdventures]

Great to be back making videos in England! Where else should I visit here?

[@depekthegreat359]

I think Southend United,good friend Sam!!!🏋‍♂️

[@BALHAM69]

Milton Keynes stadium tour because you are from there AFC Wimbledon stadium tour because if you feel brave enough. Roffey fc this weekend who won the League near Brighton.. their stadium is called theatre of trees. You definitely should go there and show their new nature looking stadium. is this the most quirky stadium in non League in England? Hanwell town the non league Newcastle are home tomorrow in their League. Clapton CFC women’s team Last home match of the season is on 14th April They are a fan owned team who now own the oldest stadium in London Sam! You do love a bit of history. Last suggestion for now Crystal Palace of south east London stadium tour. A Premier League stadium tour. Thank you Sam for taking in my suggestions. i know Hanwell town the non league Newcastle is one you definitely will do this month.

[@LlywelynapGruffydd]

Wales , Lots going on there . Colwyn Bay decided to move to the Welsh leagues from English and are now looking like they will get relegated back down to the Cymru North. Shame really as they have a good fan base, go to them :) Rhyl and Caernarfon have good fans too.

[@lilbarcodevids2312]

Reading!

[@Adz2]

Doncaster Rovers, they've had a massive turnaround this season being near bottom before christmas and are in a outside shot of making the playoffs

[@krozjr5009]

I’m a Maidenhead fan who often watches your videos; if I’d known you were there last night I would’ve volunteered for an interview! Glad you enjoyed your visit to York Road! According to other, big teams in the league, it may be a tinpot shithole; but it’s *our* tinpot shithole. The whole moving thing to Braywick Park has been a massive shame from start to finish. Initially I was saddened we’d be moving, but over time I came round to it as I had a chance to process the reasoning. York Road is incredibly constrained, the pitch is on a slope near a waterway, the ground needs a decent bit of TLC doing to it, we’re actually having to send some of our youth teams to other towns! Then, as I was finally happy with it, and knowing it was being done by people who care about the club, in consultation with people who care about the club, in order to secure the future of the club… the council changes and shoots it all down! Now I’m disappointed we’re not moving, all the while my heart is steadfastly ignoring my head and is overjoyed at the fact that I’ll get to stay on those terraces for potentially years to come… it’s an absolute emotional mess, really. Glad to see my flag made it (in the background, at kick-off) into the video. I’ve got a flag that reads “Somerset Magpie” and “100 miles from home”, because I used to live in Maidenhead but now live in the West Country. Didn’t get back last night much before midnight… but worth it! So worth it!

[@markgraham190665]

Good to see a burger in a proper bun and not a poncy f**king broiche bun. Well done Maidenhead

[@prourbex]

Sheffield Fc - Oldest Club Hallam FC - Oldest Stadium Bramall Lane - Oldest professional stadium still in use.

[@MaidenheadUnitedfan]

Maidenhead - oldest used by one club

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

Correct!!!!! However Hallam is a ground not a stadium.

[@prourbex]

@@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball did mean to say Sandygate

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

@@MaidenheadUnitedfan Yes but not the oldest where association football was first played and evolved.

[@robbieh2458]

They're the oldest club still playing football... oldest football club in Scotland as is the oldest ball 😉

[@pkjlr77]

Brilliant video Sam, love this kind of video that you make with an historic angle. Great thumbnail as well 👍🙂

[@MaidenheadUnitedfan]

Our captain and another player just walking past in the background while you’re interviewing Jamie 😂😂

[@thomasfitzgerald3685]

Always an interesting and fun 20 min or so. Would love a Blackburn Rovers video! Slàinte Mhaith!

[@spedwest5380]

the oldest stand is in great yarmouth, it's listed too, you should check it out sometime, it's really nice

[@RandomHuman91]

That Jamie guy seemed awesome! My football club was formed a few years after maidenhead were formed, so yeah, quite old clubs

[@RandomHuman91]

All the staff at the club seemed very friendly

[@depekthegreat359]

Maidenhead United is one of my favourite footballing clubs ever and you have spoken the fact about their stadium,good friend Sam!!!As a part Englishman myself through my ancestries,I would want to visit the stadium through a match from them and hopefully,I would fulfill my wish,good friend!!!LONG LIVE,MAIDENHEAD UNITED!!!🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️

[@themanthemyththelegend1982]

would love you to do a hashtag video. to see what you think about the club as a whole. keep doing the great video's seen them all from your first video to this one.

[@thenorseguy2495]

I love your videos. I would love to see you in Norway sometime. Our season have just started. Maybe you could visit Haaland first club Bryne. Or even better, my local team Mjøndalen where Martin Ødegaard father was a former assistent coach. Current coach in Mjøndalen are scottish btw. His name are Kevin Nicol

[@snotwurfit]

I was surprised to see this come up.... I lived in Maidenhead 30 years ago and used to go to York Road regularly, but had no idea it was the oldest

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

It's not to oldest. It is the ground that has been continuously used by one club the longest. That doesn't mean oldest.

[@christopherpickles7541]

Piazza Santa Croce in Florence has hosted Calcio games since at least 1530 and probably earlier. It's a rough sort of football - at one time bulls would be let loose among the players to liven up the proceedings. Boxing and wrestling are allowed, but nowadays only one on one, and sucker punches are banned. In earlier times deaths were not uncommon. It's still going on, with a knockout (more ways than one?) tournament between the four quarters of the city each year.

[@scotttaylor6673]

Great video and a good game to go too!

[@RevJock]

Hi Sam, Peckham Town is an interesting club, worth a visit.

[@johnbshannon]

Dorking would be interesting, you have to love Marc White, the man who runs it, a charismatic character with colourful language, but straightforward and honest in his views, worth a punt I would say

[@FootyAdventures]

I’ll need to go soon!

[@robnorth480]

Clever wording on the plaque at York Road "believed by the FA...", a bit of back covering! Delightful ground which was the first 'pay at the gate' non-league ground that I visited. I lived near to Reading and being so close to the railway station it was an easy ground to get to. These days the pitch even has a decent covering of grass on it!

[@MaidenheadUnitedfan]

By the FA and FIFA

[@magpiej536]

The plaque predates the conformation from FIFA and Guinness World Records.

[@gerardhackett4845]

Good to see you in Maidenhead Although a Celtic supporter, I did recommend this stadium the last time you were in this Area,

[@Lordscotia3]

Although not an Associated Football ground,the MCG in Melbourne Australia has been a football ground since 1854

[@leebroomfield03]

You should take trip over to France and take a game in at Nantes. Hoping the derby is back next year. Fingers crossed Angers ECO get promoted Friday night😀

[@jackparini4225]

I've been meaning to check out the Royal Standard of England over by Beaconsfield, which claims to be the oldest pub. So there's a good theme for a great day out!

[@FredFlintstone-b4i]

As you have done Aylesbury Utd's abandoned stadium (and I believe used to live there?) you could visit them here at Chesham Utd where they ground share. Or visit Chesham now they have got prompted to the national league!

[@FootyAdventures]

DANGEROUS ABANDONED FOOTBALL STADIUM! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmOpZmuOgZ59i80 Here’s my Aylesbury video. And yeah I used to be an AY lad! I’ll definitely be along to see them/chesham at some point. Thanks for watching mate 🙌🏼

[@glasgowmedia7421]

The oldest football stadium in Hampden bowling club. The BBC and FIFA have confirmed that football was invented in Scotland going back to king James and the first football ball was found in Stirling. The passing game and how the game looks now was all Scottish.

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

The game we play today is called association football and has its roots very firmly in London, Cambridge and most of all Sheffield (all English). For the record, combination play or passing originate for Sheffield (1861). The rules your team plays by today (whoever they are) come from both Sheffield & London. You can have whisky and golf but unfortunately you are incorrect about modern association football.

[@robbieh2458]

​​@@SheffieldTheHomeofFootballactually the way we play today is actually the Scottish game. There's a reason Scotland battered England all the time for the first 20 years... Scotland introduced dribbling, passing and formations... English equivalent that they started was essentially rugby with feet.

[@robbieh2458]

​​​​@@SheffieldTheHomeofFootballPreston north end won the first league titles with a bunch of Scots for a reason. Same with Everton and Sunderland with basically a full Scottish 11. Even Villa the first dominant team had Scots and a Scottish manager. Scotland dominated football in the 19th century because it had been played in tbe country way before "association rules" were made. And the oldest football is in Scotland.

[@robbieh2458]

​@@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball from 1872 to 1892 Scotland won 11 and lost 3 against England. Winning 7-2, 6-1, 5-1 etc. It wasn't close 😂

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

@@robbieh2458 Hi Rob, if you compare Scottish football from late 1872 onwards (more so early 1874) with the game played in London then you correct. If you compare Scottish football as it became a decent passing game towards to late 1870's & during the 1880's with Sheffield football then you will find that Sheffield game was already a decent passing game from at least 1861 onwards. The way Sheffield football evolved meant from 1865 onwards they regularly beat other towns (including Glasgow). Jack Hunter (England's first ever working class captain) took Sheffield football to Blackburn Olympic & coached them in the passing game to beat Old Etonians in the 1883 FA Cup final. There were no Scotts in this Blackburn Olympic team. Most historians take modern football to have started at this point. It was Sheffield's Jack Hunter and Sheffield football that did this, not Fergus Suter as a so called "Scottish Professor". There is a ton of evidence to support this as it is actually what happened. I am happy to share it with you.

[@george150799]

Football teams can be a different age to the place they play their football, also, the place they play their football may not have been built for football, that can be where the varying arguments as to who is the oldest team and which is the oldest ground is. It should start at who has the oldest 'purpose built' football only stadium.

[@alanprior7650]

In England,try West Leigh Park,home of Havant and Waterlooville FC.

[@RockyBanana97]

Would be interested to see a video on Hashtag as Spencer has done so much to that club, but I believe they still don't have a ground that is thier own and not even sure that the ladies team play at the same ground as the men. So would definitely be an interesting watch to see the plans they have.

[@charlesm3622]

That fan with the long beard has an awesome voice. I bet he's a great person to drink tea with.

[@GordonCaledonia]

If you ever go to Argentina to see the stadiums there, you should also go to Uruguay to see the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo. It's where the first World Cup was played. They do a 2.5 hour tour. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Centenario

[@kyotocoversjimanderson782]

Another great video!

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

SAM - You should go to Blackburn to find out "THE REAL ENGLISH GAME" & what actually happened in Blackburn in 1883 when Blackburn Olympic beat Old Etonians to become the first ever working class team to win the FA Cup. If you want a video about England then that is the one. I have a whole team of historians & contacts including in Blackburn & relatives of the winning captain if you are interested? You may not be able to return safely to Scotland after it's production however :)

[@robnorth480]

The covered area where there's now an artifical pitch used to be a covered car park, a bit of a novelty in non-league football!

[@ryanoconnor5612]

More videos in England please. Maybe to hardest geezer’s local team 👀

[@terrydempsey2554]

Can you do AFC Telford United

[@amc5966]

Not only the ground in Italy pre-dates football by 50 years but isn't in the country where football was invented!

[@AlexJackson-z6j]

Very interesting Sam

[@steveburnham8755]

❤ another great vid mate

[@angryjock3938]

You just know Queens Park will want a mention somewhere lol

[@royston8044]

Didnt know they built grounds like Mansfields in 1861, they must have been ahead of there time

[@Killie_Bob]

Crewe would be interesting

[@StrudlePie]

Another braw video lad!

[@mowvu]

by far the most well respected MUFC in england

[@AustralianRadioindie]

nice job on the video

[@FootyAdventures]

Cheers mate!

[@grahamroberts2893]

Bramell Lane was a cricket ground Sheffield United didn't existing till 1889.

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

Graham, football was play unofficially at Bramall Lane in 1855. Matches in front of paying spectators were played officially from 1862 and since then it has been used for organised association football ever since. SHEFFIELD FC used the ground for a period as did Sheffield Wednesday before United made it their home in 1889.

[@bobbrown257]

Aldershot Town best atmosphere in non league and in my experience some premier league too.

[@MaidenheadUnitedfan]

Nowhere near mate

[@RayCowlishaw]

Sheffield fc is the oldest in the world. The original fa rules were called the Sheffield rules.

[@christopherpickles7541]

Goes back to Napoleon.... the Third!

[@BALHAM69]

This win could keep Maidenhead town up.😮

[@stevecooper281]

Maidenhead Town play in the Thames Valley premier league! We are Maidenhead United!

[@BALHAM69]

@@stevecooper281 couldn’t care less Aren’t you the former Swansea city manager ?

[@stevecooper281]

@@BALHAM69 So why make a comment in the first place then?

[@BALHAM69]

@@stevecooper281 as ERLiNG once say, “why not”

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

Just to clear Field Mill up. A local business used the space now occupied by Field Mill as a pitch for its employees to play 'unofficial kick-about' football matches. There was no organised club at Field Mill, no organised football (as there is with the other grounds this video), we do not know what kind of ball games were played there, what rules used, it wasn't association football or an organised club that became part of association football history. You might as well claim that any village green that had unofficial football played on it then becomes the oldest ground or stadium. Please do not give any credibility to this claim Sam. Your channel is better than this. If you want real association football history, the game we play today then look at Sheffield for the origins of most things. 58 football world firsts and counting.

[@Ghost1218]

Class video

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

Hi, the oldest football stadium in the world hosting professional football is Bramall Lane. Sheffield FC played Hallam FC in 1862 and football has been played there continuously ever since (162 years). Bramall Lane was purpose built as a cricket ground in 1855. Unofficial football games were player there in 1855. The oldest ground in the world is Sandygate (1860). Field Mill lacks credible evidence for its claim I'm afraid (basic research will tell you this). Maidenhead has not been in. continues use as long as Bramall Lane and so is also incorrect. It has been used by the same club but this doesn't make it the oldest ground. Stadium is Bramall Lane, ground is Sandygate. Both Sheffield. If you come like I have invited you twice (3 times now) I can explain all this.

[@infrasleep]

Not continuously used by the same club,though. I think Sheffield Wednesday also played there before Utd.

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

@@infrasleep Yes it hosted the very first 2 cup finals (Youdan 1867 & Cromwell 1868) as well as local important fixtures that attracted large crowds from 1862 onwards.

[@infrasleep]

@@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball Yes it did; the argument is longest continuous use by ONE club. I'm not sure Wednesday and United fans will be pleased at being called the same club despite both playing there!!Continuous use by pro Sheffield clubs may be will keep both sets of fans happy XD

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

@@infrasleep Hi, it depends on your criteria. I prefer to date a building from the date it was constructed not from the date its last occupants started to use it. I will let others judge which criteria is best for determining "the oldest"

[@infrasleep]

@@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball On that criteria,there's no argument about Bramall Lane being the oldest. I remember it being three sided-so as to accomodate cricket.The 1975 new build stand causing the severe financial problems that saw Sheff U drop to the Fourth Division. Back then,every club that built new stands (Chelsea Wolves etc) went close to bankrupt-hence the death trap stadiums that just stayed as they were until the disasters in the 80's forced a change-and financial help to do it.

[@ITRYFOOTBALL]

Punjab United FC Gravesend

[@hooliganacab1312]

I thought Sandygate was the oldest.

[@MaidenheadUnitedfan]

Ours is oldest continuously used by one club

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

It is the oldest ground. Bramall Lane the oldest stadium. The rest of this is poorly researched and presented.

[@RayCowlishaw]

It’s Hallam fc

[@paulroberts6889]

I’m watching!

[@FootyAdventures]

🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@davythescotsman5635]

I thought Sheffield United had the oldest staduim in the world?

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

They do. This is all nonsense and below the usual standards of this channel. Basic research is missing.

[@brockmildon7863]

Come to the US haha

[@steveburnell8363]

Obviously we prefer the Scottish videos. Not really interested in Maidenhead et al

[@william_marshal]

If Mansfield is 1861 and Maidenhead is 1871 how can Maidenhead be older than Mansfield?

[@Ahmetyavas34]

Oldest used by one club

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

There was no club to play on Field Mill in 1861. Maidenhead is not the oldest but the most continuously used by one club. Neither are the oldest ground or stadium.

[@Murray-v5r]

First