In 1905, United joined the Lancashire Combination league, which required larger facilities, so they moved to Devonshire Park, a football ground which was located where Trinity School now stands.

[4] On the evening of Friday, 7 January 2005, the rivers Eden, Caldew and Petteril burst their banks in Carlisle due to as much as 180mm of rainfall upstream that day.

[6] For the following six weeks Carlisle United were forced to play their home games at Christie Park in Morecambe while repair work took place.

It caused the team to play fixtures at Preston's Deepdale Ground, Blackburn's Ewood Park and Blackpool's Bloomfield Road.

The most distinctive of the four stands at Brunton Park, a unique covered terrace with a triple triangle roof, it is situated at the southern end of the stadium.

Although it was constructed in 1996 (replacing a covered terrace known as the Scatching Shed), it was't until 2024 that the spaces at the top of the stand for executive boxes were finally fitted out and opened for use (marginally reducing the overall ground capacity to approximately 17,900 as a result of the associated removal of around 130 seats from part of the back row).

One peculiar thing fans may have noticed when visiting the ground is that the stand actually runs 20 yards (18 m) past the goal line at the northern end of the pitch.

In November 2010, local business and long-time supporters of the club the Stobart Group celebrated their 40th anniversary and bought 4,000 tickets on the East Stand for the League One fixture: Carlisle versus Rochdale.

Originally a soil-based pitch was housed which was built over a landfill site; over the years this caused numerous settlement problems such as dips and crowns.

When Bill Shankly joined the club in 1949 he called the ground "a glorified hen coop, everything was in terrible condition except for the pitch and that was always a good one".

[10] During the flooding of January 2005, heavy deposits of silt were left on the playing field and a decision was made by the owners to build a new pitch and install a new primary drainage system.

[citation needed] By the time the East Stand was opened in August 1996, plans were afoot to redevelop Brunton Park into a 28,000 capacity all-seater stadium.

However, the club's lack of progress on the pitch over the next decade, along with the subsequent departure of ambitious owner Michael Knighton, meant that the stadium remained unchanged from that date.

[15] On 18 November 2011, with Carlisle United established in League One (third tier) for the sixth season, the club announced plans to leave Brunton Park for a new 12,000-seat stadium at Kingmoor, in the north of the city.

Brunton Park met the criteria set by the Football League for matches in the bottom two tiers of the competition, but was not suitable for games in the higher levels.