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Association football ground in Portsmouth, England

Fratton Park is a football ground in Portsmouth, Portsea Island, England and is the home of Portsmouth F. C. Fratton Park's location on Portsea Island is unique in English professional football, as it is the only professional English football ground not located on the mainland of Great Britain. Fratton Park has been the only home football ground in Portsmouth FC's entire history. Fratton Park was built in 1899 by Alfred H. Bone, a Portsmouth based architect, surveyor and a founding director of the football club. The site of Fratton Park was formerly a market garden potato field in a Portsea Island farming village named Milton. By 1904, the village of Milton and the rest of Portsea Island had become part of the borough of Portsmouth. Portsmouth's football ground was deceptively named as "Fratton Park" by the club's founding directors, to persuade supporters that the new Milton based football ground was within walking distance of neighbouring Fratton's convenient railway station; the true distance between the railway station and football ground is actually one mile, or a ten minute walk. Fratton Park was first opened to the public on Tuesday 15 August 1899. The first ever match at Fratton Park took place on the afternoon of Wednesday 6 September 1899, a 2–0 friendly win against Southampton FC, attended by 4,141 supporters. but was reduced to 52,000 for safety reasons after the Burnden Park disaster of 1946. The highest recorded attendance in Fratton Park's history was in Portsmouth's first Division One championship winning season of 1948–49 with a crowd recorded at 51,385 on 26 February 1949, for an FA Cup sixth round match vs Derby County, a match which if Portsmouth had won, could have led to them achieving the rare Double of winning both the FA Cup and Division One championship titles in the same season. The preserved floodlight tower now also acts as a telecommunications antenna tower. Fratton Park was used as part of the 70 day long London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay route. The Day 59 relay route began on 16 July 2012, with Portsmouth F. C. steward and D Day veteran John Jenkins as runner number 001, carrying the Olympic flame onto Fratton Park pitch. The Day 59 torch relay route then set off from Fratton Park, through Portsmouth and eastwards to Brighton & Hove. Fratton Park is affectionately nicknamed "The Old Girl" by Portsmouth supporters, and has a reputation for high attendances and a powerful atmosphere, similar to that of larger capacity stadia. Fratton Park's maximum capacity has been reduced to 20,899 since it became an all seater. Several relocations plans proposed during the 1990s and 2000s failed to materialise.

Fratton Park is built in a traditional English style with four separate stands of varied designs and sizes and arranged closely around the four sides of the football pitch. The pitch measures 115 × 73 yards, and is aligned from east to west, which is considered unusual in English football, as most other pitches are orientated north to south to maximise natural sunlight. The stadium has a capacity for 20,899 supporters, although it has had a much larger maximum capacity for 58,000 supporters after the construction of the North Stand in 1935. Fratton Park's record attendance is 51,385, reached in an FA Cup quarter final match vs Derby County, on 26 February 1949, in which Portsmouth won 2–1. The four stands in Fratton Park are named The North Stand (north), The South Stand (south), The Milton End (east) and The Fratton End (west). Before the reconstruction of the present Fratton End in 1997, the terraces of the two previous Fratton Ends, the Lower North Terrace and Milton End were conjoined as one continuous horseshoe shaped terrace for much of Fratton Park's twentieth century history. Along the northern touchline of the pitch is the two tier North Stand, the largest stand in Fratton Park. The North Stand (including Lower North Terrace) was rebuilt and reopened as a full standing stand on 7 September 1935, increasing Fratton Park's maximum capacity to 58,000 supporters. However, the stadium capacity was reduced to 52,000 for safety reasons after the Burnden Park disaster of 1946 The remaining lower tier of the Fratton End was demolished nine seasons later in 1997 to clear the land for the building of the current Fratton End stand in 1997. The Fratton End turnstiles are accessed from Frogmore Road.

Despite its Fratton Park name, Portsmouth's football ground is not located in the Fratton area of Portsmouth, instead it was built in Milton in 1899. Fratton Park is actually named after the nearby Fratton railway station (which is in Fratton) and not the geographic area of Fratton of Portsmouth. This peculiar misnaming has caused many of Portsmouth's residents and football fans to incorrectly assume that Fratton Park is located in Fratton, and not in Milton. Fratton Park was built in 1899 on a plot of agricultural land in Milton, a small rural village on the east side of Portsea Island. The plot of land was originally a market garden to the north of Goldsmith Avenue and was purchased by Portsmouth FC from the Goldsmith farming family in the autumn of 1898. At the time, the late nineteenth century village of Milton still retained a remote, rural and isolated feeling from the busy town of Portsmouth, and had no railway station of its own, the nearest being located one mile to the west in Fratton, in the centre of Portsea Island. The boundaries of Portsmouth were changed in 1904 to include the entirety of Portsea Island, thus making Milton and Portsea Island's other towns and villages all part of the town borough of Portsmouth. Portsmouth would later expand onto the mainland and achieve city status in 1926. Ironically, on 28 May 1912, Portsmouth's town council bought the remaining Milton Farm land from the Goldsmith farming family, and on 11 July 1923 the council opened a public recreation park named Milton Park in Milton, only 127 metres to the east of Fratton Park on Priory Crescent. The east stand of Fratton Park is named the Milton End, an acknowledgement to the actual village of Milton that the football ground was built in. The former nineteenth century villages of Milton and Fratton are now residential areas of the present day city of Portsmouth, the physical boundaries of the two former villages are now blurred by the modern day urban sprawl of the city of Portsmouth. However, Milton and Fratton still have defined official boundaries; Milton and Fratton are physically separated by the Portsmouth Direct line railway line, they have separate political voting wards and also have distinctively different postal codes. If Fratton Park had hypothetically been built in the Fratton area of Portsmouth, its postal code would begin with PO1 5**. However, Fratton Park retains a PO4 8RA Milton postcode and not the PO1 area postal code of Fratton and Portsmouth's city centre. By coincidence, Fratton Park's PO4 8RA postal code contains the RA abbreviation of the late nineteenth century precursor Royal Artillery Portsmouth FC, sometimes known as RA Portsmouth.

Fratton Park is closest to Fratton railway station, roughly one mile to the west of the ground (about ten minutes' walk away). Fratton railway station is located on the Portsmouth Direct Line branch, which links to both London Waterloo station and London Victoria station. Services from London, Southampton, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff and Brighton all stop at Fratton railway station before reaching the main Portsmouth & Southsea or Portsmouth Harbour railway stations. By road, Fratton Park is close to the A2030 on the east coast of Portsea Island, and is named Velder Avenue at its southern end, and Eastern Road to its north. At the north Eastern Road end of the A2030, it intersects with the main A27 south coast trunk road at Farlington, Portsmouth. This A27 intersection has the M27 motorway to its west, and A27 to the east. Further to the east, the A27 links to the A3(M) to London and the M25 motorway which orbits London. By sea, Portsmouth International Port has passenger ferry routes to the Channel Islands, northern France, and northern Spain. From Portsmouth Harbour railway station, there are foot passenger ferries to Gosport and the Isle of Wight. A car ferry service to the Isle of Wight also operates from nearby Gunwharf.

'The Boilermakers Hump' was one of the nicknames given to the north east corner terrace of Fratton Park, located between the North Terrace and Milton End. It is likely that the corner terrace was built as part of upgrades to Fratton Park in 1905, which joined the North Terrace to the newly built Milton End terrace. The corner was also known as the 'Milton Corner'. The 'Boilermakers Hump' name originates from men who worked in Portsmouth dockyard who specialised in building and maintaining the steam boilers for the Royal Navy fleet. The Boilermakers met at the north east corner of Fratton Park on match days, the corner became nicknamed 'The Boilermakers Hump', because the tall curved corner terrace was taller than the Milton End and North Terrace stands and had a hump like appearance. The Boilermakers had a rowdy reputation. They worked hard and played hard. In an era before floodlit evening matches, the Boilermakers would often sneak out of work early for midweek afternoon matches, leaving work unwashed, dirty and drunk. Because of this reputation, people would steer clear of them, allowing the Boilermakers to claim their own area in Fratton Park for themselves on the Hump. The 'Hump' lost its distinctive height difference when the Milton End was reprofiled up to the same height as The Hump in 1949. In 1962, floodlight pylon towers were constructed in the four corners of Fratton Park, replacing the original roof top sets installed in 1956. The north east tower was built in the north east corner of Fratton Park at top of the Boilermakers Hump. Following the 11 May 1985 Bradford City stadium fire, a stadium control room box was built onto the Boilermakers Hump terrace immediately in front of the north east floodlight pylon tower during the summer break of 1985. Other such safety upgrades to Fratton Park included adding additional fire escape staircases to the opposite ends of the mostly wooden South Stand and enclosing its distinctive Archibald Leitch "X" trusses as it contained wooden planks behind the metal framing. In 1996, blue plastic seats were fixed onto the remaining Boilermakers Hump terrace, as part of the overall plan to make Fratton Park an all seater stadium to meet Taylor Report standards. Presently, the Boilermakers Hump is the closest point in Fratton Park between home fans in the North Stand and the visiting 'away' fans in the Milton End stand. 'The Boilermakers Hump' is now mostly occupied by a police and security control room box, and was the former location of the north east floodlight pylon tower until it was removed on 4 September 2019. Seats installed in 1996 were removed from the north east corner area between 2016 and 2017 to provide a separation zone between the opposing sets of supporters. Plans to redevelop the Boilermakers Hump as part of the Fratton Park "Phase 1" Milton End refurbishment were revealed in 2020 by Portsmouth FC and Portsmouth City Council. The Boilermakers Hump is planned to be reprofiled with new seating, incorporating wheelchair user spaces on the uppermost level accessed from ground level via a new lift. Behind the wheelchair spaces, a new stadium control room, refreshment kiosks and toilet facilities were planned. The Boilermakers Hump would then become covered by a roof extension from the existing Milton End roof. The Boilermakers Hump was reopened for the first time after extensive refurbishment work for the 3 February 2024 League One match against Northampton Town, in which Portsmouth won 4 1 to maintain their first place position. The Boilermakers Hump is now split into two sections by a metal fence, with one half of the Hump now considered as part of the North Stand for Home supporters and the other remaining section as part of the Milton End's Away section.

In 1900, Portsmouth architect Arthur Cogswell built a Brickwoods Brewery pub for Portsmouth's first chairman, John Brickwood, at 44 Frogmore Road, "next door" to Fratton Park stadium. The new pub was named The Pompey. Arthur Cogswell was well known to John Brickwood, as Cogswell had built many other Brickwoods Brewery pubs around the Portsmouth area. Arthur Cogswell was also an enthusiast of association football, having formed an earlier amateur level Portsmouth Association Football Club (1884 to 1896). The Pompey was closed down in 1988, but the premises were purchased by Portsmouth F. C., who then converted the building into a club souvenir and merchandise shop. Since 1988, the former pub has had various roles, as the club's media centre, for hospitality and most recently as the club's ticket office. was later relocated and is currently hung on the rear wall of The Fratton End stand. The Pompey, built in 1900, is currently the oldest surviving building at Fratton Park, although was not built as part of the original 1899 era stadium. On Tuesday 26 May 2020, Portsmouth announced that the exterior of the Pompey building was to be (eventually) restored back to its public house configuration by removing exterior branding to reveal the original Brickwoods Brewery mosaic tiling. Shortly afterwards, on Wednesday 3 June 2020, photographs appeared on social media which showed the branding being removed, to reveal the Brickwoods Brewery tiles again after being covered over for at least thirty years.

In 1905, a club pavilion was donated to the club by its first chairman John Brickwood. The pavilion was designed and constructed at the south west corner of Fratton Park in Frogmore Road by Major Alfred H. Bone, a surveyor, architect and a founding director of the Portsmouth Football and Athletic Company. The Fratton Park pavilion was built in the same mock Tudor style as those found in other late 19th century football grounds, such as Fulham F. C.'s Craven Cottage. Fratton Park's pavilion was built immediately to the north of The Pompey pub which Cogswell had built in 1900. The north eastern side of the pavilion featured a tall octagonal clock tower spire featuring a covered spectator gallery beneath it and around the northern side of the pavilion. The pavilion also housed the players dressing rooms and the club offices. However, the pavilion's clock tower spire was removed in 1925 to allow space for the construction of the current South Stand, which partially covers the pavilion. The South Stand was designed by the acclaimed Scottish architect, Archibald Leitch. The pavilion's mock Tudor facade has since been painted since the mid 1970s white with black timber frames, but older monochrome photographs clearly show that the pavilion originally had darker walls (possibly beige or cream?) and much lighter coloured (white?) timber frames, as recently as the early 1970s, but was later repainted to resemble the black and white appearance of The Pompey pub. This repainting may have been authorised during the ownership of former Portsmouth chairman John Deacon, along with the enclosure of the pavilions' distinctive "1898" motif and surrounding detail within a plain white box structure, which on its front face were "PFC" initial letters (in a blue 3D plastic italicised font) attached to it, which lasted into the 1980s.

Portsmouth FC was the first English football club to stage a Football League match under floodlights, in a 22 February 1956 game against Newcastle United. replacing the original 1956 roof top sets which were removed after the four new towers were constructed in 1962. The Portsmouth Supporters Club contributed £12,000 (approx £254,000 in 2018) to the new pylon towers. In 1997, a five year planning permission was granted to Portsmouth FC by the city council's planning department to remove and replace Fratton Park's four 1962 era corner floodlight lamp towers with a set of modern replacements, to be supplied by Abacus Lighting Limited, although this work was not undertaken following the late nineties ownership of Terry Venables and Martin Gregory and the subsequent financial crisis that saw the club go into administration in 1999. In July 2015, work began by Musco Lighting to bring pitch illumination up to Championship standards for evening games at Fratton Park. The work was completed in September 2015. The new lamps were installed along the roof edges of the Fratton End, North Stand and Milton End stands of Fratton Park. This new lighting rendered the two northern corner floodlight towers obsolete and they were permanently switched off, with the illumination lamps removed from the north east tower. At the time, there were no plans to remove the iconic 1962 pylon towers. During initial surveying work, it was discovered that the South Stand roof was not capable of supporting the new lighting equipment, so the decision was taken to keep the two southern corner floodlight towers operational. The pylons on the northern side of the ground were deactivated and removed during 2019. In April 2019, the club released a statement seeking planning permission to relocate the inactive north west pylon to the north east perimeter of the car park behind the North Stand. On the evening of Thursday 16 May 2019, after the second leg of the EFL League One playoff semi final vs Sunderland, Fratton Park's two southern side floodlight pylons were permanently switched off. New roof top floodlight lamps were proposed to replace them, to be fitted along the top of a newly refurbished South Stand in time for 2019–20 season. The relocated north west pylon was planned to have its lamps removed and serve as a historic local landmark and as a telecommunications tower. On Tuesday 17 June 2019, the first of Fratton Park's four floodlight pylons was removed with a hydraulic crane, which lifted the north west pylon down in four sections to the ground. It was later reassembled in the North Stand car park to serve as both a legacy memorial to the four long serving towers and also to continue their secondary role as telecommunication masts. The removal of the pylon was done by Portsmouth based demolition company Hughes & Salvidge, who had famously completed demolition work on Southampton's previous home ground, The Dell on Friday 13 July 2001. On 9 July 2019, a video was released by Portsmouth's media department showing the first of ten sets of rooftop mounted floodlights being fitted to the new roof of the South Stand. followed by a third pylon removal in the south west Frogmore Road corner on 5 September 2019. The fourth floodlight tower in the south east corner was finally removed on Friday 20 November 2020.

The club has a store that sells merchandise such as football kits and balls. It is located on 16 Anson Road, Milton, Portsmouth (in a former charity organization's premises), just behind Fratton Park's North Stand and car park and is operated by the Just Sport group (Football Retail Partners to Nike the official Kit Supplier). It opened on 21 June 2018, and was attended by Portsmouth players Ben Close, Adam May, Jamal Lowe and Brandon Haunstrup.

The first Pompey Shop was located in a converted private residence on 42 Frogmore Road in Milton, opposite "The Pompey" pub and within the corner of Carisbrooke Road. After the shop moved to the former pub in 1988, the location became home to the club's Community Office until the Mid 2000s, when the property was put up for sale. The store soon moved to the former "The Pompey" pub in 1988 once the football club purchased the property. After the store relocated in 1999, the building was repurposed as the club's media centre and eventually the ticket and head office of the club. The building has since been restored back into its former guise of a pub. The shop relocated once again in 1999, this time to the northern end of the Fratton End stand of Fratton Park and renamed "Pompey Sport". After relocating in 2007, the space was converted into a private lounge for the club, named "The Legends Lounge" (formerly "The Chimes Lounge"). In the mid 2000s, the club opened a second "Pompey Sport" location in Cascades Shopping Centre, located in Unit 48(currently home to a sweet shop). The Cascades location was eventually relocated to Unit 30 in the building (currently home to a greeting cards shop). Once Portsmouth entered the Premier League, the store relocated once again in 2007, this time to Rodney Road, Milton, Portsmouth, becoming the "Portsmouth FC Megastore". It was opened in July 2007 by Harry Redknapp. Following the store's relocation to Fratton Way in 2011, the location remained empty for a couple of years until a public gym moved into the space in 2015. A third location, simply titled "Portsmouthfc", was located at Unit 88, 46 Westbury Square, within Fareham Shopping Centre, Fareham, Hampshire during 2008 and 2009. In 2011, the shop moved out of its Rodney Road location in order to prepare for its relocation to Fratton Way. In order to prepare for the move, the club re purchased the former Frogmore Road location and used it as a temporary Pompey Store from 9 April to 10 August 2011 After this, the store remained empty until planning permission was granted in 2014 to restore the building back into a private residence. The new Pompey Centre location opened on 11 August 2011. After the Pompey Supporter's Trust purchased the club, the venue was reopened under the operation of Sports Direct as "Pompey Store. com" on 10 October 2013. Following the club's purchase by The Tornante Company on 3 August 2017, the store closed on 20 June 2018 to relocate to its current location. The former Pompey Centre location remained vacant for five years, until becoming the home to a charity's premises in April 2023.

Offside Cottage, was a terraced house formerly next door to Fratton Park at number 57 Frogmore Road. The house was owned by Portsmouth FC and was used as the offices of the Portsmouth Supporters Club. Offside Cottage was demolished in 1966 to make way for new Portsmouth Football Club offices, a supporters lounge and new turnstiles for the Fratton End. The new offices were officially opened on 27 March 1967, an Easter Monday. The demolition of 57 Frogmore Road also permitted a new rear access alleyway between 55 Frogmore Road and the new office building. The alleyway is now used as very narrow public pathway between Frogmore Road and Fratton Park's Victory South Gate in McLoughlin Way.

On 23 September 2023, a bronze statue of Jimmy Dickinson by Douglas Jennings was unveiled at Fratton Park's northwest corner by Jimmy's son Andrew Dickinson and former Portsmouth goalkeeper, Alan Knight. The statue was commissioned by the Pompey Supporters’ Trust and crowdfunded by fans of the club.

On Friday 1 October 1954, Portsmouth FC were granted permission by the city's council to build a player's gymnasium. The gym was built close to Fratton Park's north west corner on the southern side of a T junction between the original Milton Lane and Anson Road. A two storey extension to the gymnasium was granted on 15 November 1978. The gymnasium survived up until it was cleared for the demolition and redevelopment of Fratton railway goods yard a project known as The Pompey Centre in the early 2000s. The gymnasium's former location is now occupied by a ground level car park and an upper level loading bay both belonging to a large Tesco Extra superstore, which was opened in November 2015. The route of the original Milton Lane pathway has also been diverted further to the north to allow for the North Stand car park and also for a new petrol station attached to the Tesco store.

Fratton Park has hosted one full England international match on 2 March 1903 against Wales and has also hosted some England U 21 internationals. On 6 June 1918, an American army team played a Canadian army team in a baseball match at Fratton Park, with the gate money donated to the British Red Cross. The US army team won 4–3. Southampton F. C. were briefly forced to switch home matches to Fratton Park during World War II when a German Luftwaffe bomb was dropped and hit their home at The Dell, Southampton in November 1940, leaving an 18 foot wide crater on the pitch which damaged an underground water culvert, flooding the pitch. On 26 July 1948, Fratton Park hosted a Netherlands vs Ireland first round football game in the 1948 London Olympics, one of only two grounds outside London to host matches in the Olympic football tournament. The game at Fratton Park was attended by a crowd of 8,000, with a 3–1 win to the Netherlands. In 1989, one of Portsmouth's crossbars was found to be one inch too low by a match referee and was readjusted to ensure fair play. For 98 years between 1899 and 1997, the Fratton Park football pitch was not a perfect rectangle, but instead, a parallelogram. Then for 18 years between 1997 and 2015, the pitch shape was trapezoidal before a perfect rectanglular shaped one was recreated in 2015 after the Fratton Park pitch was relaid. On 16 July 2012, Fratton Park acted as the start location of Day 59 of the seventy day long London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay. The Day 59 relay route began with veteran Portsmouth F. C. steward John Jenkins as runner number 001, who then carried the Olympic flame onto and around the Fratton Park pitch. The Day 59 route was Portsmouth to Brighton & Hove.

In 2008, a set of plans were approved, to build a new 35,000 capacity stadium and leisure/residential complex on Horsea Island, situated at the north of Portsmouth Harbour close to Port Solent marina. In 2009 the Horsea Island development was put on hold due to financial issues. The previous proposal to rotate the existing pitch at Fratton Park by 90 degrees was re instated. No such pitch rotation was undertaken.

The ground has been home to the club throughout its entire history. The old stadium has been refurbished and repaired, but the current facilities are showing signs of age. By the time Portsmouth reached the FA Premier League in 2003, other clubs at this level had either built new stadiums or significantly redeveloped existing facilities along modern, less working class lines, abolishing traditional features which have so far been preserved at Fratton Park, despite relocation being suggested as long ago as the early 1990s. When the Taylor Report of January 1990 required all clubs in the top two divisions to have all seater stadiums by the 1994 95 season, relocation was soon being considered by the Portsmouth board, although Fratton Park was still converted into an all seater stadium over the next few years, giving it a capacity of over 19,000. In 2011, plans to spend money redeveloping Fratton Park were announced, with improvements to changing rooms and toilets. By 2015, however, with Portsmouth in League Two (fourth tier of English football), no redevelopment or expansion work had yet taken place. As it stands, Fratton Park's current capacity would appear adequate until promotion to a higher division is achieved. In 2015, two floodlight pylons were rendered obsolete due to corrosion and leaking water in the control boxes causing short circuiting. Musco Lighting handled the installation of new lighting in the stadium over the course of three months. However, a report indicated that the South Stand was not capable of taking on the lights. For the time being the decision has been made to keep the south pylons active. On Friday 19 October 2018, Portsmouth's new chairman, Michael Eisner published a photograph on social media of behind the scenes work and plans that hinted towards a future redevelopment of Fratton Park. The club announced plans on Tuesday 14 January 2020 to submit a planning application to Portsmouth City Council for approval on a redevelopment of the Milton End stand and surrounding areas, On 15 June 2021, photographs of Fratton Park's 25 year old seats being removed were revealed on the club's official social media websites. On 16 June 2021, Portsmouth announced acquiring the freehold to their current Roko training ground site and additional land. Between January and August 2022, work to refurbish and reprofile the North and South stands took place and when completed restored Fratton Park's capacity to approximately 20,000. Work to refurbish and restore the 3,200 capacity to the Milton End began on 2 November 2022 and is expected to be completed during 2024.

Overall Record Attendance: 51,385 v Derby County 26 February 1949, FA Cup sixth round 1948–1949 season. All Seated Record Attendance: 20,821 v Tottenham Hotspur 17 October 2009, Premier League 2009–2010 season.

Season Tier Final position Average attendance Stadium notes 1946–47 112/22 30,198 1947–48 18/22 31,226 Repairs and improvements made to the Milton End's top gangway and northeast corner stairway. 1948–49 11/22 37,082 Fratton Park crowd attendance record of 51,385 set for an FA Cup quarter final match against Derby County on 26 February 1949 1949–50 11/22 37,004 1950 51 17/22 32,794 1951 52 14/22 32,523 1952 53 115/22 31,578 1953 54 114/22 28,993 1954 55 13/22 29,868 1955 56 112/22 26,260 1956 57 119/22 25,024 Fratton End rebuilt and opened. Floodlights built on top of North and South stand roofs 1957 58 120/22 28,499 1958 59 122/22 24,016 1959 60 220/22 16,156 1960 61 221/22 15,028 1961 62 31/24 16,782 1962 63 216/22 16,043 Floodlight tower pylons built in Fratton Park's four corners. Floodlights removed from North and South stand roofs. 1963 64 29/22 14,681 1964 65 220/22 13,058 1965 66 212/22 14,644 1966 67 214/22 14,831 "Offside Cottage", a house formerly located at 57 Frogmore Road and owned by Portsmouth FC, is demolished in 1966 to make way for new club offices and a supporters lounge. Opened on Easter Monday 27 March 1967. A narrow alleyway was also created between the new offices and the Frogmore Road houses. 1967 68 25/22 22,988 1968 69 215/22 19,163 1969 70 217/22 14,928 1970 71 216/22 13,759 1971 72 216/22 11,918 1972 73 217/22 9,477 1973 74 215/22 13,675 1974 75 217/22 12,474 Moats dug in front of the Fratton End and Milton End in an effort to prevent pitch invasions. 1975 76 222/22 10,472 1976 77 320/24 11,564 1977 78 324/24 9,678 1978 79 47/24 10,123 1979–80 44/24 15,850 1980–81 36/24 13,514 1981–82 313/24 8,544 1982–83 31/24 14,095 1983–84 216/22 13,196 Fences erected around pitch perimeter to prevent pitch invasions. 1984–85 24/22 15,185 1985–86 24/22 13,614 Control room box added to Boilermakers Hump. Fire exit staircases added to South Stand exterior. South Stand "X" truss enclosed. 1986–87 22/22 13,404 Fratton End upper terrace condemned and restricted 1987–88 119/22 15,923 Fratton End upper terrace restricted 1988–89 220/22 10,201 Fratton End upper terrace demolished. North and South stands refurbished, roofs replaced with azure blue metal sheets. 'The Pompey' pub becomes club shop 1989–90 212/22 8,959 Fences around pitch perimeter removed following the Hillsborough disaster. 1990–91 217/22 9,681 1991–92 29/22 11,745 1992–93 23/24 13,695 1993–94 217/24 11,622 1994–95 218/24 8,269 1995–96 221/24 9,407 1996–97 27/24 8,723 Fratton Park becomes an all seater stadium as recommended by the Taylor Report. 1997–98 220/24 11,149 Fratton End fully demolished. North Stand roof extended. New Fratton End opened on 31 October 1997. 1998–99 219/24 11,956 1999–00 218/24 13,906 2000–01 220/24 13,707 2001–02 217/24 15,121 2002–03 21/24 18,933 2003–04 113/20 20,109 2004–05 117/20 20,072 2005–06 116/20 19,840 2006–07 19/20 19,862 Upper tier of South Stand extended forwards 3 rows, with 370 additional seats and a lower TV camera gantry. 2007–08 18/20 19,914 Milton End roof built. 2008–09 114/20 19,830 2009–10 120/20 18,249 2010–11 216/24 15,751 2011–12 222/24 11,044 2012–13324/24 12,232 2013–14 413/24 15,461 2014–15 416/24 15,242 2015–16 46/24 16,391 Floodlights fitted to North Stand, Fratton End and Milton End rooflines. North east and north west floodlight towers permanently deactivated, but retained. New flatter pitch with all weather artificial sidelines laid 2016–17 41/24 16,822 League Two champions 2017–18 38/24 16,917 Fratton Park capacity restricted to 19,669 2018–19 34/24 18,098 Large video screen fitted to the centre of the Milton End roof line. New Pompey Shop opened at 16 Anson Road behind the North Stand. Refurbishment of South Stand roof and cladding began in March 2019. South east and south west floodflight pylons permanently switched off on 16 May 2019. 2019–20 35/24 17,578 Planning permission applied 21 May 2019 for new TV gantry for South Stand roof, along with a set of 8 rooftop floodlight clusters. Pitch replaced with semi artificial hybrid surface. Floodlight pylons removal began on 17 June 2019. New floodlights fitted to new roof of South Stand on 9 July 2019. On 15 July 2019, the north west pylon tower was re erected in its new permanent home in the North Stand car park. Second floodlight pylon removed from north east corner on 4 September 2019, with third south west removed on 5 September 2019. 2020–21 3 8/24 Home attendance limited to two home league games of 2,000 supporters between 5 December 2020 and 15 December 2020 due to national COVID 19 restrictions. North Stand's 1988 era roof and outer cladding, along with Lower North Stand 1997 roof extension were replaced between 6 April 2020 to 3 September 2020. The fourth floodlight tower in the south east corner was finally removed on Friday 20 November 2020. 2021–22 3 10/24 14,444 (reduced capacity during renovations) Highest League attendance = 17,418 vs Sunderland. Lowest League attendance = 11,470 vs Crewe Alexandra. North Stand seats replaced, Lower North reprofiled to include 12 disabled spaces. South Stand lower paddock area to be converted into pitch level extension of South Stand seats. 2022–23 3 8/24 17,721 (reduced capacity during renovations) Highest Home League attendance = 19,009 vs Plymouth Argyle (17 September 2022, Score: 2 2). Lowest Home League attendance = 16,434 vs Burton Albion (14 February 2023, Score: 1–0). South Stand refurbishment completed. Milton End refurbishment begun. 2023–24 3 1/24 18,876 Highest Home League attendance = 20,303 vs Oxford United (2 March 2024, Score: 2–1). Lowest Home League attendance = 17,450 vs Wycombe Wanderers (3 October 2023, Score: 2–1). Ten rows of rail seats fitted to the back of the Fratton End. Jimmy Dickinson memorial statue unveiled 23 September 2023. Milton End refurbishment completed. 2024–25 2 TBD TBD South Stand TV gantry to be replaced. Fratton End seats to be replaced.