The ground's name referred to the griffin featured in the logo of Fuller's Brewery, which at one point owned the orchard on which the stadium was built.

[1] In 1903, Fulham chairman Henry Norris (a prominent estate agent), Brentford manager Dick Molyneux and club president Edwin Underwood negotiated a 21-year lease at a peppercorn rent on an orchard (owned by local brewers Fuller, Smith and Turner) along the Ealing Road, with the option to buy the freehold at a later date for £5,000.

[2] After a gypsy camp was removed from the site and work began on building the ground in January 1904, under the guidance of architects Parr & Kates.

[3] The first competitive match played at Griffin Park was a Western League fixture versus Plymouth Argyle on 1 September 1904.

[6] Argyle scored the first competitive goal at the ground through Fred Buck, but four minutes from the final whistle, Tommy Shanks converted a James Swarbrick cross to secure a 1–1 draw.

[5] The first competitive fixture to be played at the ground was a Southern League First Division match on 3 September 1904, which yielded a 0–0 draw between Brentford and West Ham United.

[5] The first Football League match to be played at the ground was on 30 August 1920, with Reginald Boyne scoring the only goal of a Third Division fixture versus Millwall.

[7] The money generated from Brentford's run to the fifth round of the FA Cup during the 1926–27 season (£5,000, equivalent to £377,000 in 2025) allowed a new grandstand to be constructed to replace the 'cow shed' on the Braemar Road side of the ground.

[9] Prior to Brentford's debut First Division season in 1935–36, the New Road terrace was extended and a roof was added, which took the stand's capacity to 20,000.

[3] In 2006, the pitch was moved a few metres to the west in order to accommodate box goal nets and the following year, a roof was added to the Ealing Road terrace.

[16][17] The only occasion on which Griffin Park was closed due to crowd trouble was following a Third Division South match versus Brighton & Hove Albion on 12 September 1925.

[18] The following home match against Crystal Palace was moved to Selhurst Park, where Brentford suffered a 2–0 defeat and dropped to bottom place in the Football League.

[22] Sixty people were evacuated from homes nearby and an estimated £150,000 worth of damage was caused, including 800 seats, the away dressing room, the gymnasium, the kit store and the laundry.

[27] Brentford's hopes of moving to a new 20,000-capacity stadium were boosted in 2007 after the club was given an option to buy a 7.6-acre (31,000 m2) site at Lionel Road, less than a mile away from Griffin Park.

[30] Eric Pickles (then-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government) gave final approval for the stadium on 14 March 2014 and a development agreement was signed with Willmott Dixon in December 2014.

[30][31] The commencement of work on the Lionel Road site was held up through 2015 due to First Industrial Ltd (which owned the final parcel of land needed to begin development) objecting to a compulsory purchase order by Hounslow Council.

[36][37][38] Brentford's 5th-place finish in the Championship playoff places in the 2014–15 season raised questions about Griffin Park's suitability for Premier League football,[39] prior to the then-expected move to the Community Stadium in 2017.

[43] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the final match not to be played behind closed doors at Griffin Park was a 5–0 Championship win over Sheffield Wednesday on 7 March 2020.

[45] The final match at Griffin Park was a 2019–20 London Senior Cup semi-final, played between Brentford B and Erith Town on 26 August 2020.

[96][97] The pubs are: Due to its convenient location in West London, Griffin Park has featured in a number of films, TV programmes and advertisements: The original lease on the ground ran out in 1925, but the deal was kept on ice and the club became freeholders in April 1936.

[114] With Noades declaring he would only fund the club until 2000,[115] the prospect of the sale of Griffin Park for development looked likely until 2006, when supporters' trust Bees United bought his majority shareholding.