The history of Hampden Park

1873

Queen’s Park FC, Scotland’s oldest club, moved in to the world’s first purposebuilt stadium for club and international football, now the site of the Hampden Bowling Club. This is where the ‘Scotch Professors’ developed the modern passing game of football and exported it to the world.

1903

Match attendances quickly outgrew the second Hampden, leading Queens Park FC to build the third and current Hampden Park in Mount Florida

1937

Scotland’s 3-1 victory over England attracted an attendance of 149,415 fans - a British record for any match The Scottish Cup Final received a crowd of 146,433 fans, a European record for a club match, with an estimated 20,000 supporters locked outside

1970

Celtic’s European Cup tie against Leeds United was seen by 136,505 supporters, a semi-final record

1999

Hampden Park became a 51,866 capacity all-seater stadium, with UEFA awarding it category four status for its upgraded facilities

2002

Real Madrid returned to Hampden in 2002 when Zinedine Zidane’s volley, regarded as one of the best goals in history, clinched a 2-1 Champions League win over Bayer Leverkusen

2012

Hampden hosts football matches for The London 2012 Olympic Games

2019

The Scotland Women’s Team attracted a record attendance of 18,555 fans for a World Cup warm-up friendly with Jamaica

1884

The building of the Cathcart Circle Railway line forced a move to the second Hampden Park

1904

Hampden hosted its first Scottish Cup Final in front of 64,472 fans, the largest crowd ever seen at a Scottish Cup Final up to that point

1960

Real Madrid won their fifth European Cup in a row against Eintracht Frankfurt, in front of 127,621 fans, the highest attendance ever in a European Cup final

1976

Bayern Munich defeats Saint Etienne in the European Cup Final

2000

Hampden played host to former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson as he defeated Lou Savarese in front of 30,000 fans at Hampden, after just 38 seconds

2007

The last European final at Hampden was the 2007 UEFA Cup Final clash with Sevilla defeating Espanyol on penalties

2014

Hampden hosts the 2014 Commonwealth Games athletics events and the closing ceremony

2021

Hampden hosted matches for the delayed UEFA Euro 2020, including Scotland matches against Czech Republic and Croatia

“HAMPDEN IS THE CENTRE OF FOOTBALL IN SCOTLAND. AS A YOUNG PLAYER YOU ALWAYS HOPED TO PLAY AT HAMPDEN, ALWAYS WANTED TO TURN OUT FOR YOUR COUNTRY THERE.”