Grounds
The club's home ground Surrey Street (official title: The Arthur Goldthorpe Stadium) has a capacity of 2,374 with 209 seated. They moved to the ground in 1955 from North Road. Floodlights were installed in 1992.
During the off-season of 2010 the Supporters Club funded and helped build the new dugouts, replacing the old aged and basic ones with new spacious dugouts worthy of a team with ambition. In the summer of 2011 the club upgraded more of the facilities at Surrey Street. With the help of many supporter volunteers this was not only done to improve the game day enjoyment of both fans and players but to achieve the ground grading needed for potential promotion to the Evo Stik league. The new Clubhouse, dressing rooms, pie hut and hospitality room were completed in a relatively short amount of time being ready for the first pre-season game of 2011/12. Glossop can now boast some of the best facilities and playing surface at their level and the league above them. This was proven the case when in March 2012 the club/ground did indeed achieve the FA Ground Grading grade of E which is required for football clubs at step 4 of the non-league structure in the football league pyramid.
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