Scott Brown has slaughtered the Hampden pitch

[RANGERRAB 3,253]

Queen's Park own it. The Stadium is leased to the SFA and has been operated by Hampden Park Limited since April 2000. It is an initial 20-year lease with a further 20-year option.

 

So when it got renovated in the 1990's who paid for the renovation ? Not QP obviously. And who is paying for its upkeep nowadays?

[boabie 230]

So when it got renovated in the 1990's who paid for the renovation ? Not QP obviously. And who is paying for its upkeep nowadays?

 

Various national funding ie lottery, the SFA were selling 50p scratch cards to the public for years, etc. I think the SFA got their lease to use Hampden with no charge going to Queens Park in return for funding.

Edited March 31, 2016 by boabie

[Frankie 8,136]

So when it got renovated in the 1990's who paid for the renovation ? Not QP obviously. And who is paying for its upkeep nowadays?

 

The National Stadium Committee, formed with representatives of Queen’s Park and the Scottish football authorities raised the funding along with the Millennium Commission.

 

Hampden Park Ltd operate the stadium so they will organise its upkeep.

Edited March 31, 2016 by Frankie

[ian1964 10,386]

The National Stadium Committee, formed with representatives of Queen’s Park and the Scottish football authorities raised the funding along with the Millennium Commission.

 

Hampden Park Ltd operate the stadium so they will organise the upkeep of the stadium.

 

And more recently financial backing from the Common Wealth games committee,just as the piggery got special funding!

[RANGERRAB 3,253]

So QP effectively got their stadium renovated free of charge ?

[Frankie 8,136]

So QP effectively got their stadium renovated free of charge ?

 

Although they own and lease the stadium, they're the effective tenants.

 

If the SFA decided to move then the umbrella group would fold and QP would need to fund the upkeep. That wouldn't be possible so they'd eventually sell the stadium and the land - moving to Lesser Hampden where their club offices, football administration and social premises already exist.

 

It's somewhat of a bizarre situation but as an amateur club, QP don't really gain too much of an advantage from it.

[Uilleam 5,396]

It is clear that, when the Authorities elect to kick Hampden Park into touch, thon Piggery at Parkhead

will become the new "National Stadium". There is already a discernible campaign celebrating its wonderful, unique atmosphere,

alleged popularity with support, and players, and a drip, drip, drip of black propaganda against Hampden.

 

Hampden, of course, is a dump, and the monies spent on rehabilitating it, a waste, but The StuporBowl? Really?

Edited March 31, 2016 by Uilleam

[pete 2,494]

I take it the link with QP comes from the very beginning.

 

All eleven players who represented Scotland that day played for Glasgow amateur club Queen's Park

[RANGERRAB 3,253]

It is clear that, when the Authorities elect to kick Hampden Park into touch, thon Piggery at Parkhead

will become the new "National Stadium". There is already a discernible campaign celebrating its wonderful, unique atmosphere,

alleged popularity with support, and players, and a drip, drip, drip of black propaganda against Hampden.

 

Hampden, of course, is a dump, and the monies spent on rehabilitating it, a waste, but The StuporBowl? Really?

 

This is the direction I bet a few would like to take. We must do all we can to stop it happening.

[pete 2,494]

Three Hampdens

 

Queen's Park, the oldest club in Scottish football, have played at a venue called Hampden Park since October 1873.[3][4] The first Hampden Park was overlooked by a nearby terrace named after Englishman John Hampden, who fought for the roundheads in the English Civil War.[3][4] Queen's Park played at the first Hampden Park for 10 years beginning with a Scottish Cup tie on 25 October 1873.[5] The ground hosted the first Scottish Cup Final, in 1874, and a Scotland v England match in 1878.[5]

The remains of Cathkin Park, which was the site of the second Hampden Park.

 

The club moved to the second Hampden Park, 150 yards from the original, because the Cathcart District Railway planned a new line through the site of the ground's western terrace.[4][6] A lawn bowling club at the junction of Queen's Drive and Cathcart Road marks the site of the first Hampden.[3] The second Hampden Park opened in October 1884.[3][4] It became a regular home to the Scottish Cup Final, but Celtic Park shared some of the big matches including the Scotland v England fixture in 1894.[3]

 

In the late 1890s, Queen's Park requested more land for development of the second Hampden Park.[4][5] This was refused by the landlords, which led to the club seeking a new site.[4][5] Henry Erskine Gordon agreed to sell 12 acres of land off Somerville Drive to Queen's Park in November 1899.[7][8] James Miller designed twin grandstands along the south side of the ground[8] with a pavilion wedged in between.[3] The natural slopes were shaped to form banks of terracing, designed by Archibald Leitch.[3] Construction of the new ground took over three years to complete; during construction, a disaster occurred at Ibrox in which part of the wooden terraces collapsed.[8] In response, the terraces at Hampden were firmly set in the earthwork and innovative techniques were used to control spectators.[8]

 

Third Lanark A.C. took over the second Hampden Park in 1903 and renamed it Cathkin Park.[3] The club rebuilt the ground from scratch due to a failure to agree a fee for the whole stadium.[5][7] Third Lanark went out of business in 1967 and Cathkin Park is now a public park with much of the original terracing still evident.[3][5]

 

Hampden Park was the biggest stadium in the world from its opening in 1903 until it was surpassed by the Maracanã in 1950.[6] Along with Celtic Park and Ibrox, the city of Glasgow possessed the three largest football stadia in the world at the time Hampden opened.[3] In the stadium's first match, on 31 October 1903, Queen's Park defeated Celtic 1–0 in the Scottish league.[3][6][7][9] The first Scottish Cup Final played at the ground was an Old Firm match in 1904, attracting a record Scottish crowd of 64,672.[9] The first Scotland v England match at the ground was played in April 1906 with 102,741 people in attendance, which established Hampden as the primary home of the Scotland team.[10]

Record attendances