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Hampden Park
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Hampden Park is a large football stadium located in Glasgow, Scotland, that has been home to the Scottish national football team. It is one of the oldest and most historically significant football stadiums in the world, having hosted major matches and tournaments for over a century.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stadium
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Glasgow City
- Owned by
- Scottish Football Association
- Location
- Glasgow
- Sport
- rugby union
- Official website
- www.hampdenpark.co.uk
- Image
- Hampden Park (Glasgow) aerial view cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hampden Stadium
- maximum capacity
- 51866
- architect
- Archibald Leitch
- date of official opening
- 1903-10-31
- street address
- Letherby Drive, Glasgow, UK G42 9BA
- surface played on
- lawn
- historic county
- Renfrewshire
- social media followers
- 11739
- different from
- Hampden Park
- native label
- Hampden Park
- associated electoral district
- Glasgow South
- replaces
- Cathkin Park
- IPA transcription
- ˈhɑːmdən
- postal code
- G42 9BA
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Encyclopedic overview
Hampden Park (/ˈhɑːmdən/ HAHM-dən; Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Hampden), currently known as Barclays Hampden for sponsorship reasons, 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. Hampden Park is owned by the Scottish Football Association (SFA), and regularly hosts the semi-finals and finals of the Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup. The largest stadium by capacity from its opening 1903 until 1950, Hampden Park is the 11th-largest football stadium in the United Kingdom, and the second-largest football stadium in Scotland. The stadium retains all attendance records recorded in European football.
A UEFA category four stadium, Hampden Park has hosted six European finals including the 1960 European Cup final between Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt which, with a crowd of 127,621 in attendance, is the highest ever recorded attendance for a European Cup final. The stadium houses the offices of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) and Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) and has hosted three European Cup/Champions League finals, two Cup Winners' Cup finals and a UEFA Cup final. It has hosted other sporting events including the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games (also hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony). Scotland was one of the eleven host countries of the Euro 2020 tournament with the stadium hosting the round of 16 matches and will host matches of Euro 2028, of which Scotland is again one of the host countries.
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