Scotstoun Stadium is an

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and

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Scotstoun Scotstoun ( gd, Baile an Sgotaich) is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, west of Glasgow City Centre. It is bounded by Garscadden and Yoker to the west, Victoria Park, Jordanhill and Whiteinch to the east, Jordanhill to the north and the River Clyde ...

, an area in the West End of

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, Scotland.

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have trained at the facility since 2009 and have played their home games here from the 2012–13 season onwards. It has a capacity of 9,708 for rugby union. Between 2012 and 2015, the Stadium hosted the

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– the Scottish leg of the IRB Sevens World Series, but then the leg was moved to a new host country, France in 2016.

History

The facility first opened in 1915 as Scotstoun Showgrounds after the land was developed by the Glasgow Agricultural Society as a venue for agricultural shows. It was soon being used as a venue for sporting events and as a result the Grandstand was erected. The facility underwent a huge renovation in 2008 and on completion was re-opened on 14 January 2010 by

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. The stadium forms part of the wider ''Scotstoun Sports Campus'' which in addition to being a leisure centre open to the public, includes high-quality facilities for racquet sports (hosting the

1997 IBF World Championships The 1997 IBF World Championships (Badminton) were held in Glasgow, Scotland, between 24 May and 1 June 1997. Venue *Scotstoun Centre Medalists Medal table Events External linksBWF Results {{World badminton champs World Championships ...

1997 Sudirman Cup The 1997 Sudirman Cup was the fifth tournament of the World Mixed Team Badminton Championships. It was held from May 19 to May 25, 1997 in Glasgow, Scotland. Results 59 teams competed in this edition of Sudirman Cup. Nigeria, Morocco, Turkmenist ...

and

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, and the

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and squash events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games), as well as a swimming pool which was the venue for the Synchronised swimming competition forming part of the multi-sport

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held in Glasgow and Berlin. In September 2018, the venue became the host site for the

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, a new indoor

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event on the

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in men's tennis.

Renovation

Renovations involved building new stadium facilities housing new office space, meeting rooms, an indoor 100 metre sprint track, as well as resurfacing the outdoor 400 metre track with a full size rugby pitch in the in-field. The stands were extended creating a north stand and south stand which together can seat up to 5,000. 2010 also saw the introduction of new synthetic pitches and rugby training pitches located at the far end of the stadium. In addition to these, the stadium has a strength and conditioning suite for athletes.

Events

Scotstoun Stadium was used as a training venue for the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

and is regularly used for premier athletics events attracting world class athletes from all over the UK. It became the training base for the

rugby team in 2009 who subsequently started playing home games at the venue in September 2012, moving from their previous home at

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. Scotstoun Stadium first hosted the Scottish leg of the

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in May 2012, and continued to host the event until it was moved to France in 2016. It is also the home ground of

Hyndland RFC Hyndland RFC is a rugby union side based in Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland.The club was founded in 1933.https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sru-files/HyndlandRFC_Head_Coach.pdf They play their home games at Scotstoun Stadium. History Hyndland ...

Victoria Park City of Glasgow Athletics Club also trains at Scotstoun.

Gallery

File:Indoor_Track_3.jpg, Indoor Track File:Main_Stand3.jpg, Main Stand File:Main_Stand_2.jpg, Main Stand File:Scotstoun_Back_Stand_3.jpg, Back Stand File:Gym_4.JPG, Strength & Conditioning Suite File:Gym_5.JPG, Strength & Conditioning Suite File:Gym_7.JPG, Strength & Conditioning Suite File:Gym_6.JPG, Strength & Conditioning Suite

References

External links

Official Site
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