DONCASTER ROVERS FOOTBALL MUSEUM: GROUNDS

Intake Ground, Town Moor Avenue. Venue for the inaugural game against the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf in September 1879 (after which the players decided to form a club and call it 'Doncaster Rovers'). Then it was one of a few different pitches used for home games until it became the permanent Rovers home 1885-1916.

Bennetthorpe was the council Education Department's 'Belle Vue' playing fields (not to be confused with the Belle Vue ground). When football resumed after WW1, the relaunched Rovers club could not return to the Intake Ground. So the council offered them use of this site. It was home to Rovers for 2 seasons.

Rovers moved to the Low Pastures site in 1922 and after some disussion renamed it 'Belle Vue'. The club played here for 84 years until the final game on 23 December 2006.

The first Rovers game at the Keepmoat Stadium was on 1 January 2007. With its second sponsor it was renamed the Eco-Power Stadium. Before completion it was known as Doncaster Community Stadium, Lakeside.

Following crowd trouble, Rovers were suspended from using the Intake Ground for 3 weeks in the 1892/93 season.

So over the Easter weekend of 1893 two Rovers home games in the Midland League were played in Askern on a field rented to the club by Mr Edwards of the Swan Hotel.

Following crowd trouble, Rovers were suspended from using the Intake Ground for a month at the start of the 1908/09 season. So they used the ground of Conisbrough St.Peter's on Park Road for two matches in September 1908.