Thread by @_retro10, A thread on old grounds of Scottish football. 1)Name: Cathkin ParkLocation: Florida [...]

A thread on old grounds of Scottish football.

1)

Name: Cathkin Park
Location: Florida Ave, Glasgow
Opened: 1884
Closed: 1967
Clubs: Queen's Park 1884-1903 & Third Lanark 1903-1967
Peak Capacity: 50,000
Record Att: 51,518 (1954)
Full Internationals : 6
Scot Cup Finals: 11

The ground was built by Queen's Park in 1884 and named Hampden Park until 1903 when the existing national stadium was built and the Spiders took the already established Hampden name with them. At this point the ground was renamed Cathkin Park as Third Lanark took up residency.

2)

Name: St Mirren Park
Location: Love Street, Paisley
Opened: 1894
Closed: 2009
Clubs: St Mirren 1894 - 2009 & Morton 1949
Peak Capacity: 50,000
Record Att: 47,438
Full Internationals: 1 (1923)
Other internationals : 20 (Under 23's, under 21's etc)

Semi finals: 10 (4 Scottish Cup & 6 Junior Scots Cup).
Cup Finals: 3
European matches: 7
Other uses: Boxing, Speedway, Athletics, Rugby Union, Cycling, Greyhound Racing.

Misc. The record crowd at Love Street is the highest ever recorded in Scotland outside Glasgow & Edinburgh

3)

Name: Muirton Park
Location: Perth
Opened: 1924
Closed: 1989
Clubs: St Johnstone 1924 - 1989
Peak Capacity: 30,000
Record Attendance: 29,973 (1951)
European Matches: 3
Domestic Semi Finals: 1

Following the fire at Valley Parade in 1985, the capacity of the wooden stand at Muirton was quartered to 500. This left the club with no other choice than to relocate, and after selling Muirton Park, the club moved to the custom built McDiarmid site on the outskirts of Perth.

4)

Name: Douglas Park
Location: Hamilton, Lanarkshire
Opened: 1888
Closed: 1994
Clubs: Hamilton Accies 1888 - 1994, Clyde 1991 - 1994
Peak Capacity: 29,000
Record Attendance: 28,690 (1937)

As the replacement and current Douglas Park wasn't built until 2001, Accies were homeless for 7 years, ground sharing with Albion Rovers and Partick Thistle as they fought for their very existence off the park due to the high costs involved in renting.

5)

Name: Annfield Park
Location: Stirling
Opened: 1945
Closed: 1993
Clubs: Stirling Albion
Peak Capacity: 26,000
Record Attendance: 26,400 (1959)

Annfield was built as the Luftwaffe flattened the original Forthbank Park during WWII, and existing Stirling based club.....//

(Continued).......Kings Park FC folded. After selling the ground to Central Regional Council in 1981, the local authority installed a synthetic pitch in 1987, the first in Scottish senior football. In 1993 the council built the current Forthbank and sold Annfield for housing.

6)

Name: Broomfield Park
Location: Gartlea Road, Airdrie
Opened: 1892
Closed: 1994
Clubs: Airdrieonians 1892 - 1994
Peak Capacity: 24,000
Record Att: 24,000 (1952)
European Matches: 1

The main stand was built in 1924 after the great 1920's Airdrie side won the Scottish Cup, joining the pavilion which had been built 17 years beforehand. Famously, this pavilion was where the changing rooms were and even in 1994 the away dressing allegedly had ho water or heating

7)

Name: Brockville Park
Location: Hope Street, Falkirk
Opened: 1885
Closed: 2003
Clubs: Falkirk 1885 - 2003
Peak Capacity: 23,100
Record Attendance: 23,100 (1953)
Other uses: Greyhound Racing

Misc. In 1932 Falkirk paid £10,000 for a greyhound racing track to be built around the pitch, which is a modern day equivalent of £720,000, but it only lasted until 1935 due to the town having three racing tracks!

8)

Name: Bayview Park
Location: Methil, Fife
Opened: 1902
Closed: 1998
Clubs: Leven Thistle 1902-1903 & East Fife 1903-1998
Peak Capacity: 22,000
Record Att: 22,515 (1950)
Other uses: Greyhound Racing

Misc. The ground was originally called Town Hall Park for one season....//

(Continued).....Before the Fifers were formed and the need for the original tenants Leven Thistle was no longer required. The ground was renamed due to its proximity to Largo Bay.

Greyhound Racing at the ground ran for 27 years until 1961, far longer than at most football clubs.

9)

Name: Boghead Park
Location: Dumbarton
Opened: 1879
Closed: 2000
Clubs: Dumbarton 1879-2000, Clydebank 1996-1999
Peak Capacity: 18,000
Record Attendance: 18,001 (1957)
Other uses: Greyhound Racing

Miscellaneous. Greenock Morton played St Mirren on New Years Day 1949.....//

at Boghead as Cappielow was frozen. Saints won 4-1 in front of 12,000.

In 1999 the ground was used as the home of fictional club Kilnockie FC, in the film "A Shot at Glory" produced by and starring Oscar winning actor Robert Duvall.

10)

Name: Kilbowie Park
Location: Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire
Opened: 1939
Closed: 1996
Clubs: Clydebank Juniors 1939-1964, ES Clydebank 1964-65, Clydebank 1965-1996
Peak Capacity: 14,900
Record Attendance: 14,900 (1965)

Misc. The Bankies craftily dodged health and safety /

legislation in 1977 upon promotion to the Premier Division by seating the terracing with wooden beaches, reducing the capacity from 14,000 to 9950, just below the 10,000 threshold for costly safety work. It became the first all seater stadium in the UK as a result.

11)

Name: Firs Park
Location: Firs Street, Falkirk
Opened: 1921
Closed: 2008
Clubs: East Stirlingshire 1921-1964 & 1965-2008
Peak Capacity: 12,000
Record Att: 12,000 (1921)
Other uses: Greyhound Racing

Misc. In 1964, the owners decided to merge East Stirling with....//

//..Clydebank Jnrs, resulting in the formation of the club ES Clydebank. Firs Park was shut & the new club moved to Kilbowie. The fans took legal action however, with the club reinstated in 1965 at Firs Park, however the enclosure roof & floodlights had already went to Kilbowie!

12)

Name: Shawfield Stadium
Location: Rutherglen, Glasgow
Opened: 1898
Closed: 1986
Clubs: Clyde 1898 - 1986, Bridgeton Waverley 1923 - 1927
Peak Capacity: 50,000
Record Attendance: 52,000 (1908)
Other uses - Greyhound Racing, Athletics, Boxing

The ground is still open today as a Greyhound racing venue, but the terraces have fallen into a state of disrepair as they are no longer maintained. Although the ground was built and owned by Clyde, they sold it due to cash problems in 1935 and landed up evicted 50 years later.

13)

Name: Meadowbank Stadium
Location: Edinburgh
Opened: 1970
Closed: 2017
Clubs: Meadowbank Thistle 1974 - 1995, Edinburgh City 1996 - 2017, Leith Athletic 2013 - 2017
Peak Capacity: 3500
Record Attendance (football): 3500
Other Uses - Athletics, Music, Rugby League, Cycling

The stadium was purposely built for the 1970 Commonwealth Games and also used for the 1986 equivalent, and for this reason was unlike any football ground, particularly due the almost vertical main stand.

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