In 1897, they moved to the Athletic Grounds at the present-day Stanley Park, which hosted thirty-two League matches over two seasons. Firstly, between 18, they played their fifteen home Football League matches at Raikes Hall Gardens (also known as the Pleasure Gardens).
It has also been the venue for the final of the Northern Rail Cup, a rugby league tournament. The stadium hosted three matches of the 2005 UEFA Women's Championship. The record attendance at Bloomfield Road is 38,098, when Blackpool played Wolverhampton Wanderers on 17 September 1955. The three permanent stands are named the Stan Mortensen North Stand (denoted by the acronym "B.F.C." spelled out in white seats, the Jimmy Armfield South Stand (with the former player's last name spelled out in white seats) and the Sir Stanley Matthews West Stand (with one of the club's nicknames, "SEASIDERS", spelled out in white seats). A temporary East Stand was erected before the start of the 2010–11 season, the club's debut in the Premier League.
Largely unchanged since the 1960s, the stadium began a redevelopment phase in the early 2000s. It is the third stadium in the club's existence, the previous two being Raikes Hall Gardens and the Athletic Grounds.
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