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Broadwood Stadium is a multi-use community
stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...
and sports complex in the Westfield area of
Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; gd, Comar nan Allt, meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated t ...
, North Lanarkshire. The stadium is currently the home of Cumbernauld Colts and Open Goal Broomhill of the
Scottish Lowland Football League The Scottish Lowland Football League (SLFL, commonly known as the Lowland League) is a senior football league based in central and southern Scotland. The league sits at level 5 on the Scottish football league system, acting as a feeder to the S ...
,Broadwood stadium welcomes Open Goal Broomhill FC as new tenants
North Lanarkshire Council North Lanarkshire ( sco, North Lanrikshire; gd, Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the northeast of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It also ...
, 14 June 2022 as well as Rangers W.F.C of the
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.Rangers: SWPL1 champions to host games at Broadwood Stadium
BBC Sport, 2 August 2022 It was the home stadium of
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from 1994 to 2022. Glasgow City of the
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shared the stadium for the 2020–21 season. The
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for the Glasgow & The West region is based at Broadwood, and it is also home to the Cumbernauld Centurions BMX Club on the National Level BMX track. Broadwood has staged the final of football's
Scottish Challenge Cup The Scottish Professional Football League Challenge Cup,Finals Day. The stadium has also held international
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.


Football

Clyde previously played in
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at
Barrowfield Park Barrowfield Park was a football ground in the Bridgeton / Dalmarnock area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was the home ground of Eastern during the 1870s and Clyde between 1877 and 1898. History Clyde moved to Barrowfield Park in 1877, initially gr ...
, from their creation in 1877 until 1898, and then
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from 1898 until they were evicted in 1986. Clyde shared Firhill with fierce rivals Partick Thistle from 1986 until 1991, and then
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with
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until moving to the purpose built Broadwood in 1994. The move to Broadwood, 10 miles outside Glasgow, meant that the club would lose some fans in the move, but hoped to gain some new supporters in the new town of
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, which had never hosted senior football before. The stadium opened to the public in February 1994 to a full house at that time, of 6000 fans. Clyde lost the game 3–0 against
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. At the time of opening, only two stands, the Main Stand and the West Stand, had been completed, giving the stadium a capacity of 6,000. The third, South Stand was completed in 1997 to bring the overall capacity to just over 8,000. Plans to complete the stadium, and bring the overall capacity to 10,000 were shelved after Clyde failed to win promotion to the
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in 2004. The missing fourth stand has now been replaced by a community sports centre, and opened in 2013. It also previously hosted another Scottish League club, Airdrieonians, between 1994 and 1998. Broadwood also formerly hosted Rangers reserve team matches on a regular basis. Broadwood has hosted many Scotland U-21 matches. Broadwood was the scene of a giant
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, when Clyde beat holders
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2–1. Broadwood has also hosted four
Scottish Challenge Cup The Scottish Professional Football League Challenge Cup,Cumbernauld Colts will play senior games at the stadium having been accepted into the
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.
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club Glasgow City played at Broadwood for the 2020–21 season due to the unavailability of their regular ground,
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.


Rugby

Broadwood has been used for one-off games by
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. It was chosen to host the 2014 Finals Day. Heriots beat
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in the
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Cup Final 31–10. It is home to
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, Glasgow and the West. Work is now underway to create a new purpose-built facility, on-site, with fitness and medical equipment, all part of Scottish Rugby's major policy initiative to develop a regional Academy system that provides the best possible support to players, both male and female, who have been identified as having genuine potential for the future. The stadium was also home to the inaugural Rugby League Commonwealth Championships; a 9s competition entered by 8 teams from the Commonwealth, won by the
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.


Structure and facilities

Broadwood has three all seated stands with a capacity of 7,936. It is equipped with a full size astroturf pitch. It also has four
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pitches for public use, changing rooms, and a
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nasium, the latter being located to the north side of the pitch. For the 2012–13 season, Clyde will play their football on a new 3rd generation synthetic pitch. Broadwood will hence become a
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. It has a purpose-built
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facility, on-site, with state-of-the-art fitness and medical equipment.


Future

Along with the introduction of a 3G surface, Broadwood is now shared between Cumbernauld Colts and Clyde. Cumbernauld Colts are now the primary licence holders of the Stadium and the site is used 7 days a week. The Colts community development program means that all age ranges use the stadium on a daily basis. With Colts entering the Scottish Lowland League, Broadwood Stadium will host a second senior club from 2015 to 2016. Clyde announced in December 2010 their intention to leave Broadwood for a site elsewhere. In October 2011, they revealed that
East Kilbride East Kilbride (; gd, Cille Bhrìghde an Ear ) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. It was also designated Scotland's first new town on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a rais ...
was one of the possible locations that they were exploring. They continue to play home games at Broadwood as secondary licence holders. Clyde do however have priority over first team matches. In June 2015, ''The Herald'' reported that Clyde's preferred option was to return to Glasgow, sharing with Shettleston Juniors. In April 2022, Clyde announced they would be leaving Broadwood at the end of the 2021–22 season, ending their 28-year stay in Cumbernauld. They will be ground-sharing with
Hamilton Academical Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Accies, or The Accies, is a Scottish association football, football club from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire who currently compete in the Scottish Championshi ...
at
New Douglas Park New Douglas Park, currently known as the ZLX Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which serves as the home of Scottish Championship side Hamilton Academical and Scottish League One sid ...
from the start of the
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season, with a view of relocating to a new home back in Glasgow in the near future. Clyde's last match at Broadwood ended in a 5–0 defeat to Airdrieonians on 23 April 2022.


See also

* Scottish stadium moves


References


External links

* {{Football venues in Scotland Airdrieonians F.C. (1878) Clyde F.C. Cumbernauld Football venues in Scotland Sports venues in North Lanarkshire Scottish Football League venues Scottish Professional Football League venues Sports venues completed in 1994 1994 establishments in the United Kingdom Glasgow City F.C. Broomhill F.C. (Scotland) Rangers W.F.C.