The decision followed months of speculation and investigation about the club breaking Football League regulations.The team's colours have varied slightly throughout the club's history. During the first two seasons, they played on a football pitch in Castlemain Avenue, Pokesdown. With support from Bournemouth Council, the club has been looking at potential sites for a new stadium and have identified an area of land which includes the park’s athletics stadium and the club’s existing training pitches. Random House AFC Bournemouth will progress proposals to build a new stadium within Kings Park. There are two leading explanations of how the club gained the nickname: from the cherry-red striped shirts that the team played in, and, perhaps less plausible, because Dean Court was built adjacent to the Cooper-Dean estate, which, it is believed, may have contained many cherry trees.For the first time, during the 1913–14 season, the club competed in the To make the club more representative of the district, the name was changed to Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Football Club in 1923.
Cooper-Dean. The consortium included Jeff Mostyn, former vice-chairman Steve Sly, Neill Blake and former Howe's first full season in charge brought success as Bournemouth finished second in League Two to earn promotion with two games to spare. Nicknamed "The Cherries", Bournemouth have played their home games at The club has spent the majority of their history bouncing between the third and Although the exact date of the club's foundation is not known, there is proof that it was formed in the autumn of 1899 out of the remains of the older Boscombe St. John's Institute Football ClubIn their first season, 1899–1900, Boscombe competed in the Bournemouth and District Junior League. They are currently competing in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Viality Stadium capacity 2018/19: 11,329 Record PL attendance: 11,459 v Liverpool (4 December 2016 & 17 April 2016) Built: 1910 Pitch size: 105m x 68m Stadium address: Vitality Stadium, Dean Court, Bournemouth, BH7 7AF Phone: +44 (0)344 576 1910 The Vitality Stadium, also referred to as Goldsands and Dean Court, lies east of the town centre and close to Boscombe. Dean Court remains the smallest ground in the Premier League.In December 2016 the club announced plans to find a new site due to the ongoing issues regarding ownership of the ground.In July 2017 the club confirmed it was looking to build a new stadium near the current site in Kings Park.In 2013 both England Ladies and Under 16 sides played games at the ground.This article is about the football stadium in Bournemouth. Bournemouth currently play at the Vitality Stadium, which they lease from a property company. However, mounting financial pressures caused him to resign his position at the end of the Machin ultimately remained in charge for six years, most of which were marked by unremarkable mid-table finishes.
With their own ground, named Dean Court after the benefactor, the club continued to thrive and dominated the local football scene. The same year the club signed its first professional player Around about this time, the club obtained their nickname "The Cherries". This was accomplished as they beat Their red and black kit, introduced in 1971, was based on the Bournemouth recorded a famous victory over holders Redknapp took Bournemouth into the second tier of the English league for the first time in their history as Third Division champions in 1987.
"Always Managing". Bournemouth remains on the records as the longest continuous members of the Third Division.As a league club, Bournemouth had to wait until after the Second World War before winning their first trophy. However, in January 2009, Murry missed the deadline to buy Baker's shares.In the final home game of the 2008–09 season, the Cherries guaranteed their Football League status by beating In June 2009, a consortium including Adam Murry finally took over Bournemouth.
The club had previously said improving the stadium's size was needed as "demand for tickets far outweighs our current capacity". Originally known as Dean Court but nowadays called The Vitality Stadium because of sponsorship, AFC Bournemouth’s home ground was built on the site of an old gravel pit. For the community near Oxford, see The In September 2006, with the team in eighth in the League, Sean O'Driscoll left to become manager of In February 2008, Bournemouth were forced into administration, suffering a ten-point deduction which put them in relegation trouble. In July 2011 the stadium was renamed the In August 2014, chairman Jeff Mostyn revealed that the club were looking at the possibility of redeveloping the stadium rather than moving to Matchams.In May 2016, Bournemouth announced that they would not be adding new capacity to its ground in time for the next Premier League season. Bournemouth had debts of around £4 million and almost went out of business completely.Early into the season, manager Bond was sacked and was replaced by former player At the end of 2008, it was announced that local businessman Adam Murry had completed the purchase of 50% of the club's shares from previous chairman, Paul Baker.