Brighton & Hove Albion

Falmer Stadium is the home of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, though it’s known as The American Express Community Stadium because of sponsorship reasons. It’s also known as The Amex for simplicity reasons! It’s located near to the village of Falmer, which is where it got its original name from. The Amex replaced the club’s former stadium, the Goldstone Ground, owing to the fact that the club’s former owners sold it to developers. Because the old owners didn’t line-up a replacement ground for Brighton they ended up bouncing around a number of different stadiums whilst they looked for their own home. Originally they ground-shared with Gillingham at Priestfield Stadium before using Withdean Stadium for a time. The location that would eventually be the building area for Falmer Stadium was actually identified as early as 1998. However delays in planning permission meant that Brighton had to wait over a decade until their new stadium was officially opened in 2011.