new stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpurs\u00a0moved to White Hart Lane in 1899, having outgrown their ground just down the road. They rented the new site from a brewery and brought a few mobile stands with them from the old ground.<\/p>\n
White Hart Lane officially opened on 4 September 1899 with a match between Spurs and Notts County (4-1).<\/p>\n
The ground was quickly expanded in the following six years: first with a covered main stand and then with wooden and banked terraces, resulting in a capacity of about 40,000 by 1905.<\/p>\n
Redevelopments continued in the next decade when first Archibald Leitch was hired to design a new main stand, and a few years later a new covered East Stand was built. This got\u00a0the stadium its rectangular shape and increased\u00a0capacity to about 50,000 places.<\/p>\n
White Hart Lane got further expanded in the early 1920s when two new covered terraces were built at both ends. In 1934, the East Stand was\u00a0further developed and enlarged, resulting in a capacity of 80,000.<\/p>\n
White Hart Lane welcomed a record crowd in 1938 when a total of 75,038 spectators attended a match between Tottenham and Sunderland.<\/p>\n
The stadium remained largely unchanged for the next decades. Capacity started to slowly decline from the 1960s when parts of the terraces were converted into seating areas, though extra seats were created by linking up the West Stand with both ends.<\/p>\n
The old West Stand was finally demolished in 1980 and replaced by a new all-seater stand, which opened in 1982. The East Stand got extensively renovated in 1989, which was followed by further refurbishments and the conversion of the stadium into an all-seater in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n
The last change to the stadium was made in 1998 when a second tier was built on the Paxton Road Members Stand.<\/p>\n
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