Plough Lane Plough Lane Plough Lane was a football stadium in Wimbledon, south west London. For nearly eighty years it was the home ground of Wimbledon Football Club, from September 1912 until May 1991, when the club moved their first team home matches to Selhurst Park as part of a groundshare agreement with Crystal Palace. Both clubs' reserve teams then used Plough Lane as their home ground until 1998, when the site was sold to Safeway. Whilst site redevelopment plans were negotiated, the stadium remained derelict for several years until it was finally demolished in 2002. The site then became a private
Crystal Palace F.C. Stadium 2004 and New Wembley 2013). To celebrate Crystal Palace's centenary in 2005, the club asked Palace fans to vote for a "Centenary XI" from a shortlist of ten players per position, provided by the club. In the 1999 Michael Winterbottom film "Wonderland" the scenes of the character Dan and his son at a football match were filmed at Selhurst Park, the ground of Crystal Palace, in a 1–1 draw against Birmingham City on 6 February 1999. In the Mike Leigh play "Abigail's Party", the character Tony mentions that he used to play professionally for Crystal Palace but it "didn't