Emirates Stadium

The Emirates Stadium, often known simply as the Emirates, formerly Ashburton Grove, is a football stadium located in Holloway in the London Borough of Islington and is the current home of Arsenal Football Club.

The stadium opened in July 2006 and has an all seated capacity of 60,355,[2] making it the second largest football club stadium in England behind Manchester United's Old Trafford, and the third largest stadium of any kind in London, after Wembley and Twickenham, and overall the fifth largest football stadium in the United Kingdom, and the eighth largest stadium of any kind in the British Isles.

It was initially known as Ashburton Grove after the road it was located on, before a naming rights deal with the airline Emirates was struck in October 2004. The project cost £390 million, including the cost of the associated infrastructure

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