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Lesser Hampden is a football stadium in Mount Florida, Glasgow, Scotland, owned by Queen's Park F.C. and located immediately beside the western end of the national stadium, Hampden Park. Since 2023 its sponsored name has been The City Stadium (after City Facilities Management, owned by local businessman William Haughey, Baron Haughey ).
Despite their diminishing status, in an ambitious 1903 project the club constructed the world's largest stadium, Hampden Park (their third home ground bearing that name) which became the national stadium for cup finals and Scotland fixtures, though still proudly owned by the amateurs. [1] [2]
Hampden Park (/ ˈ h ɑː m d ən / HAHM-dən; [8] Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Hampden) is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland, which is the national stadium of football in Scotland and home of the Scotland national football team, as well as Queen’s Park FC, the original owners.
Lesser Hampden is a smaller ground to the west of the main stadium which Queen's Park traditionally used for training and reserve team or youth matches. In 2018, a deal was made for the SFA to purchase Hampden from Queen's Park upon the expiry of the lease in 2020 for a fee of £5 million, with the club intending to improve Lesser Hampden and ...
The three largest football stadiums in the country are located in Scotland's largest city Glasgow – Celtic Park, Hampden Park (the football ground of the national football team) and Ibrox Stadium. Other notable large football stadiums include Rugby Park in Kilmarnock, Almondvale Stadium in Livingston, and Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen.
Celtic spent one season – 1994–95 – away from home at Hampden Park [7] (between the national stadium's own periods of extensive renovation that required several national cup finals and Scotland fixtures to be played at the other large Glasgow venues) [8] which was familiar to many of the players from internationals and cup fixtures ...
At a staggering 4 million cubic meters large, the 90,000-seat stadium itself can fit up to 25,000 of London's famous double decker buses inside. This also makes Wembley the largest fully-covered ...
The 51,866-seater stadium, opened in 1903 and significantly renovated in the 1990s, is home to the Scottish Football Association, and to Queen's Park F.C. until 2021. The stadium has also played host to numerous large music events and was the Track and field events stadium for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Mount Florida is also home to numerous ...