This is accessible from St John’s Square and it is a nice pedestrianised area slightly nicer than the main high-street.Port Vale operate kiosks in all of the stands with the usual selection of pies, burgers, hotdogs and hot beverages, and although there are a number of burger vans dotted around the ground there aren’t actually too many permanent food outlets.For this, you’re better off heading back down Hamil Road to the more built up area of town on Newcastle Street. In the FA Cup, Vale nearly slipped up at Princes Park to Conference South Dartford, and were saved only by an 84th minute John McCombe header. All Rights reserved.Football and Travel: Independent stadium guides and travel information for football fans across the world In fact, it took them until 2020 to finally add seats to the new stand but the new owners still managed to further improve the stadium after taking the club out of administration in 2012.Of course, Port Vale also offer season tickets to their fans and more information can be found on the aforementioned website.Give us feedback on your Football FanCast experience Vale Park was built in 1950 and is now the home of Port Vale FC, a League Two club.
Its current capacity stands at 18,947 and it has a pitch that measures 104m by 70m. Compounded by the publication of the Taylor Report a the start of the 1990s, the last remaining standing section, The Loren Street Terrace was finally demolished during the 1997-1998 season. Although they lost to West Brom, the local area was gripped by FA cup fever, and a few years later in 1960 the record attendance of just under 50,000 was set in a fifth … Lastly, North Stafford Hotel located near to Staffordshire University is the closest to the train station.© 2014 - 2020 Copyright Football Tripper. Port Vale are working through safety guidelines to make sure they are ready to welcome supporters back in October. Relocation to Vale Park coincided with the most successful period in the club’s history, with Port Vale winning two divisional titles, and reaching the FA Cup Semi-final. here there is the likes of KFC, Uppercrust, and numerous independent retailers who offer affordable grub to line your stomach with.Port Vale operate a club shop at Vale Park located on Hamil Road where the ticket office is in addition to their own official online site known as For more information, to confirm opening times or to check availability feel free to phone the store on 0871 221 1876.It doesn’t appear as if Port Vale FC currently offer fans the chance to undertake a stadium tour of Vale Park. 1971 Brian Horton scores a penalty as Port Vale draw 1-1 with Brighton. Besides the size of the ground, the pitch was also grabbing headlines at the time as it reportedly cost £100 – the most expensive ever laid at the time due to the site being a disused clay pit.Relocation to Vale Park coincided with the most successful period in the club’s history, with Port Vale winning two divisional titles, and reaching the FA Cup Semi-final. A new £3 million pound stand replaced it although it remains incomplete.The four stands are as follows: ByCars stand (North), Railway Stand (East), Hamil Road Stand (South) and Lorne Street Stand (West).Click the thumbnails above to enlarge an image of each stand and to read a more detailed description of each part of the stadium.Away fans who visit Vale Park are housed within the southernmost part of the ground which is currently known as the Signal One Stand.
Due to low attendances, the entirety of the stand is allocated to the traveling contingent which equates to around 4,500 potential seats but in reality most clubs will be doing well to bring anywhere near 1,000 supporters.Very much a non-thrills stand, the single-tier construction doesn’t offer the greatest views of the pitch for two main reasons: firstly there are four support beams which are necessary for the roof and secondly, the each level of seating has a very shallow incline which makes it hard to see if you are sat behind anyone slightly taller than yourself.On the plus side the noise travels well due to the relatively low height of the roof and wind-breakers attached to the sides of the stand, and the food available in the concourse is reasonably filling and more than reasonably priced.Within the area of Longport which is where Port Vale’s stadium is located it can be real hit and miss for away fans as reportedly a handful of pubs display signs in the window which read “Home Fans Only”.If you are making the trip on foot from the station along Newcastle Street and Moorland Road you can always take try pubs en-route such as the Post Office Vaults and The Swan which some visiting fans have had success with.One of the more away-friendly pubs is The Bull’s Head which is a CAMRA listed pub which is owned by the Titanic Brewery who use it to test out and rotate their stock of ciders and real-ales. Consisting of two sections known as the Railway Stand and Lorne Street Stand, Vale Park contained 40,000 terrace spaces and an estimated 360 seats. Although they lost to After the tragic events of the Bradford City Fire in 1985 new safety regulations saw the capacity of Vale Park reduced dramatically to 16,800. The first game ever played at Sometime later, in the 1980s, the capacity had to be reduced due to safety reasons following the Bradford City Fire but by the end of the decade, The ‘90s saw more work being done with the demolition of the all-standing Lorne Street, which was to be replaced by a new, modern facility, although this is yet to be fully finalised. 2018 Port Vale