Pride Park Stadium a competitive Derby County match is 33,378 in a Premier League match against Liverpool on 18 March 2000. In a testimonial for Ted McMinn, on 1 May 2006, former players of both Derby County and Rangers contested a match at Derby County's Pride Park Stadium in which a record 33,475 spectators attended – around 10,000 of them being Rangers fans. As one of the largest football grounds in the Midlands, Pride Park has also hosted some notable matches not connected to Derby County. Pride Park has hosted one full England international; a 4–0 friendly victory over Mexico on 25 May
Pride Park Stadium after the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster had seen the legal requirement for English football stadia to become all-seater by 1994–95 season resulting in its capacity dwindling to just 17,500 by the mid-1990s, not enough for the then-ambitious second tier club. An additional problem came with the ground's wooden components (considered unacceptable in the wake of the Bradford City stadium fire in 1985) and, in February 1996, chairman Lionel Pickering made the decision to move the club to a new stadium, having originally planned to rebuild the Baseball Ground as a 26,000-seat stadium. The club originally planned to build a purpose-built 30,000-seat