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St. Mirren Park, more commonly known as Love Street, is a football stadium located on Love Street in Paisley, Scotland. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of 10,800 and is the home ground of St. Mirren F.C.
The grounds on Love Street were registered as Fullerton Park for St. Mirren's first season there as they were being rented from a Mr Fullerton. The record attendance is 47,438 for a match against Celtic in 1949. St. Mirren are currently constructing a new stadium, New St. Mirren Park.
When St. Mirren began to play on Love Street in the mid-1890s football clubs were still very much in their infancy and moved from ground to ground renting from local landowners. The best deal available was commonly a ten year lease and by the time St. Mirren arrived at Love Street, the club was only 17 years old and playing on its fifth rented ground. They had previously played at Shortroods Estate (1877 to 1878), Abingdon Park (1878 to 1879), Thistle Park, Greenhill Road (1879 to 1882), and Westmarch Estate, Greenhill Road (1882 to 1894).
St. Mirren moved from Westmarch in 1894 where they had been for twelve years following a 100% rent increase by the landlord. The club then found a former brickworks at the foot of Love Street which could be rented for an initial ten years on reasonable terms. It was a much smaller site than Westmarch, just wide enough to lay a football pitch with some spare ground behind the goals, poorly drained and without grass. However, it would give St. Mirren the advantage of being nearer to Paisley town centre than any of the other football clubs in the town. The site was already well known to the townsfolk as an entertainment venue, as it was where travelling circuses set up their Big Top. The original Love Street stand was built in 1894. It stretched the full length of the pitch with five rows of seats and a total capacity of 1,000.
The main stand is situated on the southern town side of the stadium. It does not run the entire length of the pitch. The largest stand is the West Stand (Caledonia Street), currently sponsored by local building firm Laidlaw Scott, which houses away fans. The North Bank stand is sponsored by former shirt-sponsors LDV and is where the most vocal home fans usually are. The East Stand, or Reid Kerr College Stand, is on the Love Street side of the stadium and is the most recently built stand.
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