Balmoor Stadium
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Balmoor (also known as Balmoor Stadium) is an association football ground in the Scottish town of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. It is home to Peterhead. The stadium has a capacity of Template:SPFL-stadiums[1] spectators, of which 1,000 can be seated.[2]
The ground was opened in 1997, after Peterhead's old Recreation Park ground was sold off to supermarket company Safeway.[3] The standard of the facilities at Balmoor was one of the main reasons why Peterhead were elected to the Scottish Football League in 2000,[3] along with Elgin City.
The record attendance at Balmoor is 4,855, for a Scottish Football League Third Division match against Rangers on 20 January 2013.[4] This broke the previous record crowd of 4,505.[5]
The nearest railway station to Balmoor is Aberdeen railway station, which is Script error: No such module "convert". away.[3] This is the greatest distance between a senior league football ground and its nearest railway station in Great Britain.[3] Balmoor is located on the A982 road, just north of Peterhead town centre.[3]
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