Kjell Inge Røkke stadium, which got the nickname "Røkkeløkka" (English: "The Røkke Park"). Some estimates suggest that he has spent about NOK 400 million funding the club. Røkke, along with his business partner Bjørn Rune Gjelsten, also bought into Wimbledon Football Club in the late 1990s, becoming a joint owner of the team in 2000. The following year, with the side homeless since leaving their Plough Lane ground in 1991 and playing at Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park stadium in Croydon, southeast London, Røkke and Gjelsten, along with chairman Charles Koppel and businessman Pete Winkelman agreed to relocate the team from London to Milton
Taylor Report expansion at Maine Road were abandoned after the club agreed to become tenants at the new Eastlands site, where a new sports stadium was proposed for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The club moved to Eastlands at the start of the 2003-04 season. Wimbledon, moved out of the Plough Lane stadium in 1991 to become tenants at Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park, which was redeveloped as an all-seater stadium. They remained tenants at Selhurst Park for 12 years, during which time various plans for a new stadium were reported, before relocating to Milton Keynes where they played at the National Hockey Stadium