Details for White City Stadium, London

The White City Stadium was built for the London Olympics in 1908 and boasted a capacity of 150,000; 68,000 of which was seated and 17,000 covered. The stadium was the first of all Olympic Stadia that had been purpose-built for the games and was at the time the largest stadium in the World. The stadium only took a mere 10 months to construct at a cost of �80,000. After the Olympics were finished, the stadium was used for track and field purposes and then for greyhound racing from 1927 up until the 1980's and for speedway in 1927. White City Stadium was finally demolished in 1985. The site is now home to the BBC Radio headquarters in Wood Lane.

The stadium was constructed so that almost the entire games could be viewed from the stadium. The ground had a 1/3 mile (~536m) running track which was 24ft wide (~7.5m). Around the athletics track was a banked 660 yard (~600m) long and 35ft (~10m) wide cycle track. There was also a swimming pool on track side.

A 440yd running track was installed at the stadium in 1932 and from then the stadium was host to the AAA Championship until 1970. The venue also hosted the 1934 Empire Games.

During the 1966 World Cup, Wembley's owner's refused to cancel its regular greyhound racing meant that the match between Uruguay and France was played at the White City Stadium.

Queens Park Rangers played at the stadium in 1933 when they had no Floodlights and also in the 1963/1964 season.

The last Greyhound race at the stadium was staged on 22nd September 1984.