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Priory Lane is an association football stadium in Eastbourne, East Sussex and is the home of Eastbourne Borough, who play in the Conference South League. Eastbourne Borough have used this stadium since moving from the playing fields at Princes Park in 1983. ==History== Building commenced in 1983 when the club was playing as Langney Sports, who joined the Sussex County Football League, leased a playing field and built a garage to store equipment in. Over the years the ground has seen a lot of development. Involving piping a tunnel and installing their own pumping station for drainage. The Peter Fountain stand was first to be built in 1989, named after the man who supplied the labour. Which was later extended in the early 1990s as Langney Sports were working their way up in the Sussex County League. There was also a hump where spectators had excellent views of the pitch before the Mick Green stand was built in 1995 ready for the 1995-96 season and is in memory of the club captain who was killed in a building accident in 1994. The Mick Green stand holds the players dressing rooms and a tea bar on the ground level and hospitality suites upstairs. Part of the stadium complex includes the Langney Sports Club, which is open to non members on selected match days, an indoor bowls centre, archery and tennis courts. In 2007 the local council nearly made Eastbourne Borough lose its stadium after attempting to increase the rent from £3,000 to £17,000. The supporters club stepping in a collected over 1,000 signatures in a petition. In June 2009, the FA decided that Priory Lane stadium is a Grade A Stadium but advised that the capacity to be reduced to 4,134. The criteria for a Grade A stadium is to have a capacity of 4,000 with at least 500 seats although to be expanded to 5,000 spectators with 1,000 seats by the end of their first season in League Two. The record attendance is 3,770 against Oxford United in the FA Challenge Cup 1st Round on 5 September 2005. The first live televised game was on 12 October 2008 in a league game against Stevenage Borough. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Priory Lane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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