Wolverhampton Wanderers

Despite having a name that sounds a little like a type of painkiller, Molineux is full of history and also boasts a number of fun claims to fame. It has been the home of Wolverhampton Wanderers since 1889 and was also the club’s first permanent football ground. Previously they’d basically played on a field and a makeshift location on Dudley Road. Molineux was the first ‘new build’ stadium in the Football League and was also one of the first grounds to install floodlights, allowing games to be played after it had gone dark out. Molineux also played host to one of the first European club games, which it did in the 1950s. When it was renovated in the early 1990s the stadium was considered to be one of the most modern and state-of-the-art grounds in England, though it is obviously showing its age now compared to more recently developed grounds.