The Fan’s Stadium Kingsmeadow

I’d rather see the queens meadow than the kings’ meadow. I heard she keeps it neatly trimmed. Oh wait, this is 2015. There’s no meadow at all. It’s shiny and grassless. Smoother than me when I met this girl I know from Texas.
First-​Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium — I am so delighted this place exists. It’s even better than Plough Lane was. Wimbledon had to go through some dark times with no team, and in the lower divisions, but they are now totally back. And they have their own wonderful modern stadium now and it is easily a 5 star place.
I saw a live game here only once… in 2011. I’d just played an awful concert in London, at Aldgate. I had an amazing time in Wimbledon and fell in love with the team and the stadium. I’ll be back very soon.
I’ve been to most UK & US stadiums, due to lifelong obsessions with travel, sport & especially footy (soccer to Americans). Born & raised in England, I followed Oxford United (hometown team) to stadia all over the country at away games, and later Liverpool (fave team) around. Every stadium review — like all my reviews — are from first-​hand personal experience, usually from several visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, and visited most stadiums for fun in my spare time. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was «stuck» in UK for 3 months, I went to hundreds yet again while travelling. I have pictures of me at most, which I’ll post later. Also, when back in UK I’ll take more pix, and add more stadia!
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So anyway. If you read my «AFC Wimbledon» review you already know the story (and if you like football you already do anyway), but the part you don’t know is, this is probably the best stadium in London. I know that sounds f***ing crazy because it’s one of the smallest (and bigger is usually better according to the Texan girl) but it’s *real*. It has terraces. It has cheap prices. It has the atmosphere of the old days.
It has the heart and soul of being owned by a group of fans whose team was stolen from them in the night, so they re-​formed their own, got them back in the big time, shared a ground with local rivals, and even bought the stadium from them (Kingstonian) when it was about to go out of business. Someday AFCW will surpass MKD and get back to the top table, it can’t come soon enough. It may take 50 years. Or 500. If our species lasts that long.
Anyway if you want to go and see a real game of footy and have a pie and experience how it used to be, come here.
This stadium and club is everything that was ever good about British Football. I hated Wimbledon before they were stolen. Now I love them, and hate the MK Dons instead. Some things are bigger than football. Such as this (pdp).

Quailty pitch. Great place to have a pint on the stands. Exactly what football should be. Fan based club makes it very freindly and community orientated. Shame many premier league teams are loosing this!

There is simply no better place to watch football than at AFC Wimbledon. Very nice ground, Fantastic Team, Excellent Manager, The best fans in the world, The 92^nd Highest Average Attendance in England and the best run club in non-​league football. What else could you want?

Where else can you watch football at reasonable prices, get a decent pint before the match and during half time, still stand on the terraces and watch the team win and be so close to the action.
This what footnall was meant to be. Long live AFC Wimbledon and their ethos of being a fan’s club.

The theater of dreams. AFC Wimbledon is football at its finest and purest form. There are worse places to be at on a Saturday afternoon.

This is the home of Kingstonian FC and AFC Wimbledon. Both are non-​league clubs with fine traditions and rather large support for non league football on the outskirts of London.
The stadium, some 15 years old or so, was created when Kingstonian moved from the Richmond Road home. It is located in Norbition, which is in between Kingston upon thames and New Malden.
Kingstonian won the FA throphy twice in a row in the days when over 1,000 fans turned out at Kingsmeadow to cheer the K’s on. Those glory days of Geoff Chapple have since passed and the fan base has dwindled.
Since then the stadium has become the home of the breakaway AFC Wimbledon. The Fan’s club as they are known for being owned and run by its supporter’s trust recently bought the stadium from the previous Kingstonian chairman to save their own home ground and the home ground of the K’s.
Wimbledon currently play in the Ryman Premier Division with home tickets costing £11 for adults, £6 for consession and a quid for kids.
Kingstonian play in the Ryman first division to much smaller crowds at cheaper prices.
This is a lovely day out to watch fooball on the terraces as it should be. I couldn’t reccommend it higher, but do wrap up warm as it is cold on the terraces.
The nearest station is Norbition. The 131, K5 and X26 buses serve the stadium during the day and the infamous N87 can be caught to Traflager Square at night.