Notts County Football Club
Nottinghamshire County Football Club was founded in 1862 and is recognised as the oldest established club in the English football league. The other league club is Nottingham Forest which was established in 1865.
Nottinghamshire County Football Club originally played at Trent Bridge, the ground being shared with Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. It moved to Meadow Lane, to a site leased from the Nottingham Corporation, in time for the 1910-11 season because 
the trustees of the cricket ground decided not to renew the football clubs’ lease.
The football stand at the cricket ground was dismantled, moved and erected at the Meadow Lane end of the new County ground. A makeshift stand was hastily erected at the County Road end during the close season and was replaced by a new County Road stand erected in 1925. This was finally demolished in 1992. The whole ground was rebuilt between 1992 and 1994 at a cost of £8 million.
The Meadow Lane stand was finally demolished in 1978. 
Modernisation of the ground began in earnest in 1992 when three new stands were built. The County Road stand was named after Jimmy Sirrell, manager of Notts County, 1968-1982 and 1985-1987. The original main stand, dating back to 1910 was finally demolished in 1994 and rebuilt as the Derek Pavis stand in honour of the chairman of the club who arrived in 1987. These modernised stands provided County with a capacity of 20,300 spectators.
Nottingham Forest Football Club play their home fixtures at the City Ground, Nottingham, on a site adjacent to the County Cricket ground, where Notts County played their 
games until 1908/9.
