The Liberty/Swansea.com

[Andrew - North Hill]

....is 20 years old.

Twenty years of memories at the Swansea.com Stadium | Swansea

Today marks 20 years since Swansea City played our first game at the Swansea.com Stadium. We've shared some incredible moments and memories through each of those 20 years, and we've put together a gallery of them for you to enjoy and reflect on as we reach this special anniversary following our move from the Vetch Field in 2005.

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What's your favourite memory?

Mine has to be the Forest game, and Pratley's goal in particular.

With last year's 2-0 v Cardiff a close second.

The ground shook on both occasions.

We've had some fun there, haven't we!

 

[ABSwan]

My last home game before I emigrated in 2007, Northampton I think.

Had a few beers before the game, 0-0, couple of minutes before end of first half, I had to go to the toilet so left my seat missing the last few kicks , as I was walking into the toilet I heard the roar, we were 1-0 up last kick of the half.

Come out and line up at the bar, eventually managed to buy a beer, the game re-started as I was putting my beer down to return to my seat.

I hear a roar, we're 2-0 up.

That was the final score.

 

[BLAZE]

Leeds 3-2, League One. Christmas period and pissing down with rain, sold out home and away ends... 10-men and we still done 'em without the evil genius lasting the 90 minutes. Ultimately saw us finish Champions, 16 points ahead of them, which meant they couldn't use their -15 points deduction to claim a hollow victory

1-0 Cardiff in the League Cup too, Jordi Gomez with the decider. The entire home end was bouncing to The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Having to stay behind and witness our celebrations must've left more than a few of them deeply scarred that night

 

[Ringwood]

Leeds 3-2, League One. Christmas period and pissing down with rain, sold out home and away ends... 10-men and we still done 'em without the evil genius lasting the 90 minutes. Ultimately saw us finish Champions, 16 points ahead of them, which meant they couldn't use their -15 points deduction to claim a hollow victory

1-0 Cardiff in the League Cup too, Jordi Gomez with the decider. The entire home end was bouncing to The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Having to stay behind and witness our celebrations must've left more than a few of them deeply scarred that night

This... the Leeds game was excellent considering we were down to 10 men and finally silencing the Leeds fans.

 

[Gors Buster]

Forest.

 

[ajacks]

The 7-1 vs Brizzle for me. Felt a completely unexpected result. There was another game but my frazzled brain cant quite remember against who or when... what I do remember is we had a bunch of ADO fans in the East and the Away team had a load of Feyernord fans in purple in the lower away, something tells me it Millwall and we drew but just remember the atmosphere being amazing there.

 

[Swansea Viking]

Forest game with that Pratley goal, Cardiff with Gomez goal and the FA cup against Man City with Celina scoring that incredible goal.

 

[JustJack]

Beating Wolves 3-1 first season back in the championship, they ran away with the league that year but we were something else that day, peak Martinez ball.

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

Forest is the obvious stand out, Pratley's goal & Brendan taking off down the touchline like Mourinho.
Honourable mentions go to the comeback against Crystal Palace, beating Cardiff in the cup, absolutely battering Bristol City 7-1 & Yeovil under the lights when Trundle lobbed their keeper from 30 odd yards.

 

[Captain_Sham]

Forest. The stadium structure was moving. It was actually bouncing.

 

[Dan_Swan]

The 7-1 vs Brizzle for me. Felt a completely unexpected result. There was another game but my frazzled brain cant quite remember against who or when... what I do remember is we had a bunch of ADO fans in the East and the Away team had a load of Feyernord fans in purple in the lower away, something tells me it Millwall and we drew but just remember the atmosphere being amazing there.

I can remember their manager Brian Tinnion still sat on the bench after everyone else had gone down the tunnel, even though it was Bristol City I didn't half feel sorry for him!

 

[Swansea93]

Probably the Cardiff cup game 1-0 Jordi Gomez what an atmosphere.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Forest is my favourite football memory of all time. Will never be topped. What a feeling.

Also, it’ll always be the Liberty to me. It was always such a great name for a stadium, regardless of its origins.

 

[Gors Buster]

One of my maddest memories is the Yeovil Friday night game. I didn’t go down with my Father, I went with the boys from the pub as we were out before and after the game.
The barmaid from the pub had a night off and asked if she could join us all. You can probably guess who she was….

 

[Dr. Winston]

Forest is obviously the biggie. Some huge Premier League wins there too.

I'll chuck in one that nobody else seems to have mentioned anywhere. The second leg of the League Cup semi against Chelsea. 90+ minutes of tension hoping that we wouldn't concede a goal to open the floodgates followed by huge relief at the end.

I think a lot of people felt that was basically us winning the trophy too.