Molineux Stadium

Molineux is the historic home of Wolverhampton Wanderers, one of the founding members of the Football League who have played there since 1889. Bathed in the club's distinctive old gold and black, the ground has a traditional English feel with modern stands rebuilt around a site that has hosted football for well over a century. The Billy Wright Stand and Sir Jack Hayward Way carry the names of club legends who defined different eras of the stadium. On European or promotion nights, Molineux still produces one of the more raucous atmospheres in the Midlands.

Wolves' first league game there came on 7 September 1889, a 2-0 win over Notts County, and the ground has been the club's home ever since. In 1953 Wolves became one of the first British clubs to install floodlights, and the resulting run of prestige friendlies against continental opposition became legendary — none more so than the 3-2 win over Hungarian champions Honvéd in December 1954, dubbed the "match of the century." That Honvéd game is widely credited with inspiring the creation of the European Cup, giving Molineux a direct role in the birth of European football's premier competition. The ground has been rebuilt in stages since, but still sits on the same footprint it has occupied since the Victorian era.