Oxford United

Oxford United have called Kassam Stadium home since it opened in 2001. It was built as a replacement for their previous stadium, the Manor Ground, where they had played their football for 75 years. The new ground was hit by numerous problems and issues during the building phase, with the construction taking four years to complete because of financial issues causing the company that was building it to abandon work when they were not getting paid. A chasm between the supporters and the club’s previous owner led to the Oxford United Supporters’ Trust attempting to get the club’s fans to call the ground ‘The United Stadium’ instead of its official name of Kassam Stadium. They felt this would demonstrate the unity of the fans in their belief that Kassam was not the right man to take the club forward. In spite of this effort however, fans and press still called it the Kassam Stadium.