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What's The Ground
Like?
Looking Towards The Main Stand (photo)
What Is It Like
For Visiting Supporters?
Where To Drink?
Layout Of The Ground
How To Get There
By Car & Where To Park
By Train
Local
Rivals
Admission
Prices
Programme
Price
Fixtures 2008-2009
Record & Average Attendance
Hotel
Accommodation
Feedback
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What's The Ground
Like? |
The ground
is also used from time to time for motor sport events. This means that around the oval grass
football playing area, at the front of the spectator areas, there is a fair sized tarmac track, plus
a meshed
safety fence. It is largely an open stadium with three sides having
small open terraces. Only on the North Side of the stadium is there a
covered Main Stand. Or really I should say Main Stands as there are two,
as an older and newer structure, sit side by side. This is because the
original old Main Stand was partly destroyed by fire in 1992 and a new
structure was constructed beside the remnants of the old stand. Both are covered and
all seated and have a row of floodlight pylons at the front of them, which
could affect your view.
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Looking
Towards The Main Stands |
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What Is It Like
For Visiting Supporters? |
For most games there is no segregation of
supporters. If segregation needs to be enforced, then
the terraces at both the South & East sides are allocated to away
fans. The oval stock car track means that supporters
using the end terrace are set rather far back
from the action. For this reason supporters tend to congregate on either
side of the ground, where you are a bit closer to the pitch.
As the perimeter wall surrounding the stadium is not that high, you can
often see a few dotted faces, peering over it and watching the game for
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Where To Drink? |
There is a small bar at the
stadium itself, which is both popular with home and away supporters, plus
there is also the nearby Park Bar which is also quite popular. Otherwise
there are a number of other bars located on or around the nearby High St,
including the Crown Hotel which is listed in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide. Top Of
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Ground
Layout |
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How To Get There
By Car & Where To Park |
The ground is located in the centre of
the town, beside the High Street, however it is not easily visible when
driving along the High Street itself.
Leave the M90 at Junction 3 and take the A92 towards Kirkcaldy. Then take
the A909 into Cowdenbeath, which then leads into the High Street.
After a short distance along the High Street there is a small parking sign
entitled 'Central Park' which points left down a small road for the ground.
If you miss the sign (as I did),
continue further up the High Street and turn left into Stenhouse Street where there is an
overflow car park used on matchdays. There is also a fair sized car park at
the ground as well, which is free to use.
For a map showing the location of the ground
click here
(to take you to the Street Map website).
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By
Train |
Cowdenbeath station is only five minutes
walk from the ground and is served by trains from Edinburgh. If
anyone can provide directions from the station to the ground then please
e-mail them to me. Top Of
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Local
Rivals |
East Fife.
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Admission
Prices |
All areas of the ground:
Adults �10, Concessions �5. Top Of
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Programme
Price |
Official Programme �1.
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Fixtures
2008-2009 |
For the Cowdenbeath fixture
list
click here (to take you to the BBC Sports Website). Top Of
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Record
& Average Attendance |
Record Attendance:
25,586 v Glasgow Rangers,
League Cup Quarter Final, September 21st 1949.
Average Attendance:
2007-2008: 502 (Division Two)
2006-2007: 683 (Division Two)
2005-2006: 471
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Hotel
Accommodation |
If you require hotel accommodation in the
area then first try a hotel booking service provided
by Football Hotels who are powered by Activehotels, who
specialise in locating accommodation near or within a short travelling
distance of the football ground. They also have the added advantage over
some other hotel booking services that you pay on departure.
Yes this site will earn a small commission if you book through them, but
it will go to help with the running costs of keeping the Guide going.
To access their Stirling page
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Feedback |
If anything is incorrect or you have something to add,
please
e-mail me and I'll
update
the guide.
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