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Elite scheme helps raise bar further

Potters Bar Town’s Lantern Community Stadium has stood in the same spot since 1966, but today’s facility would be unrecognisable to those who first walked through its gates.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
23 August 2026

By Tom Blackett

TOP OF THE POTTS: Potters Bar Town chairman Peter Waller with the Premier League trophy last weekend

Potters Bar Town’s Lantern Community Stadium has stood in the same spot since 1966, but today’s facility would be unrecognisable to those who first walked through its gates.
Since 2002, the club have accessed 15 grants totalling £558,000 from the Premier League Stadium Fund for numerous infrastructures works, plus council funding for a 3G pitch installed in 2025.
“I can’t stand still,” says chairman Peter Waller, who joined as a player in 1967 and became club secretary nin...

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