The oldest professional association football stadium still in continuous active use anywhere in the world is Sandygate Road, located in Crosspool, Sheffield, England. Home to Sheffield Football Club—recognized as the oldest club in the world—Sandygate has been hosting football matches since eighteen sixty. For professional league football in the upper tiers, grounds like Bramall Lane, which opened in eighteen fifty-five and currently serves as home to Sheffield United, hold the distinction of being the oldest major professional stadiums still hosting high-level competitive fixtures in the English football pyramid today.