27 Facts About Celtic Park

Celtic Park is the home stadium of Celtic Football Club, in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, Scotland.

Celtic Park has been used as a venue for Scotland internationals and Cup Finals when Hampden Park has been unavailable.

Celtic Park hosted the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games and has been used for concerts by the Who and U2.

The original Celtic Park was built at the north east junction of Springfield Road and London Road in Parkhead by a volunteer workforce within six months of formation.

Celtic Park was forced to leave this site in 1892 when the landlord increased the annual rent from £50 to £450.

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Celtic Park recited a verse that said the turf would "take root and flourish", but it was stolen soon afterwards.

The new Celtic Park was opened on 20 August 1892 with a match against Renton.

Celtic Park was immediately successful, attracting record gate receipts and an attendance of 45,107 for the Scotland v England game in the 1894 British Home Championship.

The Celtic Park main stand had a similar feature to Ibrox in the pedimented roof gable over the press box.

The record attendance for a Celtic match at Celtic Park was set by an Old Firm derby against Rangers on New Year's Day 1938.

All of this work meant that Celtic Park had more covered terracing than any other stadium in Britain, except Wembley.

Celtic Park was heavily in debt and had been significantly outgrown by Rangers commercially in the early 1990s.

The board hoped Celtic Park would be given a special dispensation from the rules.

Celtic Park then came under severe pressure from the Bank of Scotland, who demanded a £1 million reduction in the club's overdraft, placing the club under threat of bankruptcy.

Celtic Park raised over £26 million to fund the work from two share issues: £12.

Celtic Park reopened with a friendly against Newcastle on 5 August 1995, with the new 26,970-capacity North Stand and the existing 7,850-capacity Main Stand in place.

Celtic Park was an oval stadium, but has been converted to a rectangular stadium.

Some local residents objected to the North Stand because of the shadow cast over the cemetery, which Celtic Park believed was necessary to complete the overall project.

The proposals were passed because the local officials felt that Celtic Park had come up with the best solution possible to the problem.

Celtic Park paid £10,000 to compensate residents who had been promised open space "from the centre of the earth to the sky".

In February 2017, Celtic Park published plans for a hotel and museum development in an area of land between the Main Stand and London Road.

In June 2015, Celtic Park received safety approval for a proposal to install rail seating.

Celtic Park has been a home venue for the Scotland national football team over 20 times, the most of any ground apart from the national stadium, Hampden Park.

Celtic Park has been used for concerts by The Who, Bryan Adams, Prince and U2.

Celtic Park was used for the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games opened by Queen Elizabeth II.

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Between 1897 and 1964, Celtic Park was served by the eponymous Parkhead Stadium railway station.

Celtic Park sits adjacent to the A74, near to the M74 and M8 motorways.