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Crown Oil Arena
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Alternate: Spotland Stadium

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Established
1878 (148 years old)

Capacity
10,249

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Country
United Kingdom

Location
Rochdale, Greater Manchester, UK

Timezone
UTC +00:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Coordinates
53°37′15″N 2°10′48″W

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		Upcoming
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28 Jul	RochdaleRochdale	6:45pm	Halifax THalifax Town
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09 May	Rochdale Rochdale Hornets	6 - 54	NewcastleNewcastle Thunder
03 May	RochdaleRochdale	2 - 1	ScunthorpScunthorpe United
26 Apr	Rochdale Rochdale Hornets	18 - 54	Dewsbury Dewsbury Rams
25 Apr	RochdaleRochdale	1 - 1	York CityYork City
12 Apr	Rochdale Rochdale Hornets	12 - 46	Barrow RaBarrow Raiders
11 Apr	RochdaleRochdale	2 - 1	WealdstonWealdstone

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Spotland Stadium, known as the Crown Oil Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose sports stadium in the Spotland district of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, which is home to Rochdale Association Football Club and Rochdale Hornets Rugby League Football Club. The venue has a capacity of 10,249.

History
Spotland was originally known as St Clement's Playing Fields, after the nearby St Clement's Church. Having previously been used for cricket, it became the home of St Clement's Rugby Club in 1878, until they disbanded in 1897. As well as staging local rugby competitions, the ground briefly hosted two short-lived football clubs – the earlier Rochdale A.F.C. from 1900 to 1901 and Rochdale Town from 1902 to 1903, but both folded. The present Rochdale A.F.C. was then formed to use the ground in 1907, later buying the freehold for £1,700 in 1914. By the time the club joined the Football League in 1921, a low wooden grandstand had been built on the south side of the ground, once the location of the cricket pavilion. Also by this time, the name of the surrounding area of the town, Spotland, had been adopted as the ground's name.

In August 2016, Rochdale A.F.C. renamed Spotland Stadium the Crown Oil Arena as part of a sponsorship deal by the Bury-based fuel company Crown Oil. In 2018, due to the winter weather the pitch got into such a bad state that a number of games had to be postponed. Subsequently, Rochdale were drawn against Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup and the Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino was quoted "not a pitch in a condition to play football" after seeing some pictures leading Rochdale to relay the surface in time for their game.


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