Carrow Road
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Full name | Carrow Road |
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Location | Norwich, England |
Capacity | 27,244 |
Field size | 114 x 74 yards[1] |
Construction | |
Built | 1935 |
Opened | 1935 |
Tenants | |
Norwich City F.C. |
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Carrow Road is a British football stadium in Norwich, England. It is the home of Norwich City. The stadium is in the centre of the city, near to Norwich railway station and the River Wensum. The stadium is on Carrow Road, and is named after the road. The stadium was built by Norwich City in 1935. Construction took just 82 days. There has been a lot of work done to Carrow Road since 1935. Since 1990 the stadium has been an all-seater. The ground can accommodate 27,244 today and the record attendance is presently 27,091. The record attendance at Carrow Road before it became an all-seater stadium was 43,984 in 1963. The modern Carrow Road site has a club superstore, catering facilities and a Holiday Inn hotel.