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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.
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 ...
Queen's Park left this site in 1883 because of a proposal to extend the Cathcart District Railway line through the site. [2] Queen's Park then moved to a second Hampden Park, which hosted internationals between 1885 and 1890. [3] The first match hosted outside Glasgow was at Hibernian Park in Edinburgh on 10 March 1888. [4]
The attendance of 147,365 for the 1937 Scottish Cup Final between Celtic and Aberdeen at Hampden Park is a European record for a club match. [ 54 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] The attendance of 136,274 for the 1952 Scottish Cup Final between Motherwell and Dundee is a Scottish record for a match not involving Celtic, Rangers or the Scotland national team.
Hampden Park is a suburb of Eastbourne, in the Eastbourne district, in the county of East Sussex, England.It is notable for its unique railway station, where trains on the East Coastway Line often travel through twice, and is thought to be the busiest level crossing in Europe [2] This station, now known as Hampden Park station, was once named 'Willingdon Halt'.
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. [28]
Location of Hampden County in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampden County, Massachusetts. This is a list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Originally called Hampden Park when it was given to the city by the Holyoke Water Power Company in 1861, it was rededicated in 1962 to honor the city's military veterans. The park and a few surrounding buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 as the Hampden Park Historic District. Included in this designation ...