   ninian park was a football stadium in leckwith, cardiff, wales. until 2009, it was the home ground of cardiff city f.c. cardiff city now play at the cardiff city stadium. ==history==  ninian park is named after lieutenant-colonel lord ninian crichton-stuart (15 may 1883 â 2 october 1915), son of john patrick crichton-stuart, 3rd marquess of bute (12 september 1847&ndash;9 october 1900). the ground featured large floodlights in each corner and a plasma-screen television showed highlights during the game. the television was bought by the club in 2002 from bolton wanderers, who had previously used the screen in their former ground burnden park before moving to the reebok stadium, and was located between the popular bank and the grange end. the stadium hosted a number of welsh international fixtures, including the wales v scotland world cup qualifier on 10 september 1985, at which scotland manager jock stein collapsed and died. the last ever cardiff city football match played at ninian park was a 3-0 defeat to ipswich town, who had roy keane as their new manager in his first match in charge, on 25 april 2009. the last ever senior player to score at ninian park was jon stead, then of ipswich town and the last player for cardiff city to score at ninian park was ross mccormack in a 3-1 victory over burnley in the penultimate senior game at ninian park. the club relocated to their new all-seater stadium (capacity - just over 28,000) for the
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