Deva Stadium

The Deva Stadium (also currently known as the Lookers Vauxhall Stadium due to sponsorship reasons) is an association football stadium spanning the Anglo-Welsh border in the United Kingdom, that is the home of Chester F.C., the effective successor club to the liquidated Chester City F.C. The name Deva comes from the original Roman name for the fort Deva Victrix, which became the city of Chester, in North West England. The Deva Stadium replaced Sealand Road.

History

When Chester City was taken over by new owners in March 1990, plans were announced to sell its Sealand Road stadium for redevelopment as a supermarket and build a new stadium at Bumpers Lane. While the new stadium was being built they played at the far side of Cheshire at Macclesfield Town's Moss Rose stadium. Sealand Road closed at the end of the 1989-90 season, and Chester played at Macclesfield for the next two seasons.

Construction of the new stadium began in January 1992 and it opened seven months later in time for the new 1992-93 season.