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Hampden was closed for a year due to its use as an athletics stadium in the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [9] [10] The lease that the SFA held on Hampden was due to expire in 2020, [11] and this led to Celtic (Celtic Park), Rangers (Ibrox) and the Scottish Rugby Union (Murrayfield) making offers to become the regular home of the Scotland team. [11]
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 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). [5]
Hampden Park, Scotland's national football stadium, holds several Scottish and European attendance records. This article lists Scottish football attendance records under the categories listed below. The highest ever attendance for a UEFA competition match was in the 1969–70 European Cup semi-final at Hampden Park, Scotland's national stadium.
Hampden Park was built between the Queen's Park Recreation Ground (where the club had played until then) [1] [2] and Hampden Terrace, taking its name from the road. The first enclosed stadium with turnstiles in the United Kingdom, [3] it was opened on 25 October 1873 for Queen Park's first-ever competitive match, a Scottish Cup first round tie against Dumbreck, [4] with Queen's Park winning 7 ...
Hampden Park provided a neutral venue between Cambridge and New Haven suitable for the annual Harvard-Yale game between 1889 and 1894, [27] but the 1894 edition led to such violence and injury that the match was suspended for two years. It subsequently became known as the Hampden Park Blood Bath, also known as the Springfield Massacre.
The park formerly contained a football stadium, which had played host to organised football since 1884. [1] It was originally known as Hampden Park (the second by that name, succeeding the original Hampden Park) and was rented by Queen's Park between 1884 and 1903; the first match was on 18 October 1884, a goalless draw against Dumbarton watched by 7,000. [1]
Hampden Park, Glasgow (H) Portugal: 0–0 World Cup qualification: 60,765 [1] 441 25 February 1981: National Stadium, Ramat Gan (A) Israel: 1–0 World Cup qualification: Kenny Dalglish: 35,000 [2] 442 25 March 1981: Hampden Park, Glasgow (H) Northern Ireland: 1–1 World Cup qualification: John Wark: 78,444 [2] 443 28 April 1981: Hampden Park ...