Celtic Park

Celtic Park Parkhead
Facility Statistics
Location	Parkhead, Glasgow, Scotland
Broke Ground
Opened	1892
Renovated
Surface	Grass ( 1892–present)
Owner	Celtic Football Club
Original Construction Cost
Reconstruction Cost
Architect
Tenants
Celtic Football Club	Scottish Premier League
Seating Capacity
Football	60,506

Celtic Park is a football stadium in Parkhead, Glasgow, Scotland. It is the home ground of Celtic Football Club. The all-seater stadium is also known as 'Parkhead' and nicknamed 'Paradise' by Celtic fans. It has a capacity of 60,506. It is the largest football stadium in Scotland and is currently the second-largest club football ground in the UK (after Old Trafford) will have the largest ground capacity of any British football stadium, holding just over 68,000 spectators now but when work is completed this will expand this to around 76,000 by the 2006-07 season with the building of 2 new corner stands.

Celtic moved from the original Celtic Park to the present ground in 1892. A little known fact is that the main stand was designed by Archibald Leitch, the architect who also designed stadiums for the likes of Rangers, Sunderland, Everton etc. The stadium has undergone numerous redevelopments; in 1988, Celtic's centenary year, the red-bricked exterior to the main stand was added. More recently, in the mid 1990s, further development was undertaken to make the stadium comply with the Taylor report. Now the stands completely encircle the pitch and the stadium consists of a double tiered stand which extends around three-quarters of the pitch and a single tier main stand, which contains the Celtic museum. In 1938, Celtic Park saw its largest attendance of 92,000 when Celtic played Rangers. Tours of the stadium are available.

A detail on the outward facing wall of the Main Stand

Celtic Park, looking from the Jock Stein stand eastward