EFL club’s former 8,300-capacity stadium now a building site as demolition begins and stand is destroyed

ROTHERHAM UNITED’S old home is being RIPPED apart as demolition work gets under way at Millmoor. The former 8,300-capacity stadium is now a building site, a whole 18 years after the Millers left. Rotherham United’s former home is being ripped apart in new footage Credit: bbc Millmoor was the home of the English club until 2008 Credit: bbc The Millers have called the New York Stadium home since 2012 Credit: bbc In the drone footage, the historic ground is slowly but surely being flattened Drone footage released by the BBC shows diggers tearing through the Main Stand with huge sections of terracing already destroyed. While the roof and steel frame look to still be in place, the whole thing is set to be dragged down as the historic ground disappears piece by piece. Sign up for the Football newsletter Thank you! Dream Team is back, free, and there’s £100,000 up for grabs! Rotherham played at Millmoor from 1907 until 2008, when an ownership row forced them to pack up their things. They moved six miles away to Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield for four years before returning to the town in 2012. But the Millers have played at the purpose-built 12,000-capacity New York Stadium – just a stone’s throw from their old ground – ever since. Millmoor has remained frozen in time, with the pitch, goalposts and crumbling stands still in place. Work on a new Main Stand started in around 2005 but ground to a halt two years later and was never completed. BEST FREE BETS AND BETTING SIGN UP OFFERS The ghost ground was briefly brought back to life in 2024 after a clean-up allowed local teams to use the pitch. Most read in Sport Last summer, Doncaster Rovers Belles then moved to bring regular senior football back to Millmoor. But owner CF Booth entered administration earlier this year and the 35-acre site was taken over by Ron Hull Group. Council chiefs have since approved plans to flatten the stands, press box, admin buildings and famous floodlight pylons – standing at 38 meters – before the site is prepared for redevelopment. Millmoor once squeezed in a record 25,170 fans against Sheffield United in 1952. Comment now