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==Previous Hampden Parks== ==Previous Hampden Parks==

Revision as of 05:24, 20 February 2007

Hampden Park
Former namesnone
LocationGlasgow, Scotland
OwnerQueen's Park F.C.
OperatorHampden Park Limited
Capacity52,103 (Football)
SurfaceGrass pitch
Construction
Opened1903
Renovated1999
Tenants
Queen's Park F.C.
Scottish Football Association
Scottish Football League
National team
For other uses, see Hampden Park (disambiguation).

Hampden Park in Glasgow is Scotland's national football(soccer) stadium. It is home to Queen's Park F.C. and the Scottish national football(soccer) team.

Hampden is one of the homes of Football (soccer) and celebrated its centenary on October 31, 2003. The stadium also houses the offices of the Scottish Football Association.

Previous Hampden Parks

Queen's Park F.C. have played at a venue called Hampden Park since 1873. The first and second Hampden Parks were nearby. When Queen's Park moved to the third (and current) Hampden Park, the old ground was renamed to Cathkin Park and sold to Third Lanark F.C. The third Hampden is the most famous of the grounds used, and is known throughout the world. The site of the first Hampden Park is on the site of the present day Hampden Bowling Club, the second Hampden Park (Cathkin Park) is just across the Cathcart Road .

Building Hampden Park

Whilst Queen's Park F.C. had used previous playing fields, it was in 1903 that the club decided to purchase land in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow's south side. The largest and most technically advanced stadium in the world was built. Hampden Park was inaugurated on 31 October 1903 with Queen's Park recording a 1-0 win over Celtic F.C.

Hampden Park

A New Hampden

Hampden Park was the largest stadium in the world until 1950, when the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro was completed. After the release of the Taylor Report in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster, among other football tragedies, Hampden Park was converted to an all-seater. The need to improve safety as well as protect crowds from the Scottish weather led to its most recent renovation in the late 1990s; and the stadium was re-opened on the May 14 1999. The current capacity is 52,103.

The Hampden Roar

The crowd who came to see football matches at Hampden were renowned for creating the Hampden Roar. The noise created was said to terrify opposing teams who came to play there. With capacity at the ground exceeding six figures from the early 1900s until the 1980s, the Roar could be heard several miles away from the stadium. In recent times the roar has said to be more muted, with the capacity of the stadium being reduced from its heyday.

The Hampden Roar is also used, colloquially, as a rhyming slang phrase. People (mainly in Glasgow and the West Coast of Scotland) may ask "what's the Hampden Roar?" or "what's the Hampden?" meaning, "what's the score?" The phrase can also be used outwith footballing contexts.

Events at Hampden Park

Inside Hampden Park

The Scottish Cup is played at Hampden annually in May. The prize: lifting the world's oldest national trophy - the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, made in 1873. Queen's Park were the first winners, beating Clydesdale F.C. 2-0 in the 1874 final.

Hampden Park also hosted the famous 1960 European Cup final between Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt, where over 130,000 people watched Real Madrid win 7-3. The 1975/76 final was also held at Hampden, when FC Bayern Munich defeated AS Saint-Etienne. Real Madrid were again victorious when Hampden Park hosted the final of the UEFA Champions League (the updated version of the European Cup) in 2002, defeating Bayer Leverkusen. Hampden Park will also host the UEFA Cup final in 2007. It also held famous wins for the Scotland national football team, such as the 1-0 wins over Netherlands in November 2003, and against France in October 2006

Rugby union has also been played at the ground since its renovation, including a group game in the 1999 World Cup between defending champions South Africa and Uruguay.

In American football, the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe played at the stadium between 1998 and 2004 before decamping to Hamburg to become the Hamburg Sea Devils. The league's championship game, the World Bowl, was held there in 2003. In that game, the Frankfurt Galaxy beat Rhein Fire.

The stadium has also hosted an array of concerts, and in 2000 was the venue for a boxing card headlined by former world champion Mike Tyson. Robbie Williams' concert in September 2006 had forced the Scottish national team to play their first Euro 2008 qualifier at Celtic Park instead.

Hampden is also a venue that has been put forward to host events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, should Glasgow's bid be successful.

Hampden was also home to the Glasgow Tigers speedway team from 1969 until 1972. The speedway track ran round the outside of the football pitch.

Among the British and European capacity records Hampden holds are:

One event which is mistakenly thought to have occurred at Hampden Park is the world's first football international. This actually happened at the West of Scotland Cricket Club's Hamilton Crescent ground in the Partick area of Glasgow.

Lesser Hampden

See: Lesser Hampden

Concerts

Hampden also plays host to many concerts during the summer. It can hold up to 55,000 with the side stage or 90,000 with the end stage. Many acts however, opt for the side stage as the end stage is a big put-off for buyers. All acts listed below except Bon Jovi (2001 and 2006), Oasis and Eminem have had side stages. Since 1999, some of these many concerts have included;

(* = Sold Out)

Hampden Park innovations and world firsts

See also

External links

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