Page "West Bromwich" Paragraph 15

The town's sport scene is dominated by West Bromwich Albion football club, who were founded in the town in 1879 and played at a stadium near the town centre until they moved to their current home, The Hawthorns on Birmingham Road ( directly on the border with Birmingham ) in 1900.

Although they are now in their 109th year at the stadium, all traces of the original structures are long gone ; the oldest stand is the Halfords Lane Stand that was built in 1979 and the other three stands were built between 1991 and 2001.

During the summer of 2008 the Halfords Lane Stand was refurbished and is now called the West Stand.