Cathkin Park, Historic stadium in Mount Florida, Glasgow, Scotland
Cathkin Park is a former football stadium in the Mount Florida neighborhood of Glasgow, preserved as an urban green space with visible stone terraces and original crush barriers surrounding a maintained grass pitch. The layout still shows the outline of the former spectator areas, while the central playing field now serves local training sessions and recreational football.
The ground opened in 1884 as the second Hampden Park and hosted Queen's Park until 1903, then Third Lanark until the club folded in 1967. After the clubs departed, the site remained as a public green space while portions of the terrace structure were preserved.
The original venue served as the stage for seven Scottish Cup finals between 1885 and 1899, regularly hosting trial matches that brought together players from Scotland and those based in England. Today local youth teams and community football clubs continue using the grounds for training and weekend matches, keeping the sporting tradition alive.
The grass pitch remains open to the public and serves local youth teams and amateur football clubs for training sessions and practice matches. Visitors can walk around the preserved stone terrace structures that still show the scale of the original ground.
The remaining stone terraces could hold around 50,000 spectators at their peak, making the ground one of Scotland's largest football venues in the 19th century. Today the surviving structures offer a rare glimpse into the architecture of early British sports grounds.
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