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Page 1 of 4 Ibrox Stadium, originally Ibrox Park, is the stadium of Rangers F.C. It is located on the south side of the River Clyde in the Ibrox district of Glasgow. As one of the oldest and largest stadia in Britain, as the site of two major disasters and as one of the first wave of predominantly all-seater football grounds, Ibrox is a stadium of widely acknowledged architectural and historic significance. The site of Ibrox Park has been the home of Rangers since 1899. On April 2, 1902 during the annual international game with England, twenty five people were killed and over 300 injured when a wooden stand collapsed in what was then Football's worst disaster. (Read more about the Ibrox Disasters here.) In 1929 the construction of the Main Stand, to the south side of the ground, began. Its designer was Archibald Leitch, the Scottish engineer responsible for stands at the grounds of Arsenal, Manchester United, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Aston Villa. Leitch's work was later to become amongst the most celebrated of football architecture. The Main Stand at Ibrox provides a classic example of Leitch's characteristic style of criss-cross steelwork balustrades. Like Leitch's stand and pavilion at Fulham's Craven Cottage, the architectural significance of the Ibrox Main Stand is reflected in its status as a listed building. (Read more about Archibald Leitch - the Designer of Ibrox - here.) With the Main Stand completed, the bowl-shaped ground was one of Britain's largest football stadia, second only to Hampden Park, also in Glasgow's south side. A record crowd of 118,567 gathered in January 1939 for a league match with Celtic. This remains the record attendance for a league match in Britain.  |
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