Hotels near Hampden Park
On 9 July 1867, "a group of gentlemen met for the purpose of starting a football team". The Queen's Park Football Club was born. It soon became a leading exponent of the game and was one of the founder members of the (English) Football Association as well as its Scottish counterpart. It regularly provided the Scottish players in the earliest international matches. Proud of its amateur status, and showing a confidence in the game's future, the Club's general committee in 1903 purchased 33 acres of land on the south side of Glasgow and built the largest and most technically advanced stadium in the world, Hampden Park.
It was immediately adopted as Scotland's National Stadium and became a Mecca for clubs and international players everywhere. Its natural bowl shape and extensive terraces sustained attendances of around 150,000. In those days, crowd control was less stringent than now.
Arguably the most memorable European Cup Final, Real Madrid v Eintracht Frankfurt, was held at Hampden in May 1960 with Real winning 7-3. Over 130,000 Scottish supporters were spellbound.
Whilst fulfilling its role as the National Stadium, Hampden has remained the home of Queen's Park who, despite the amateur status, play in the senior, national, leagues. Six other senior clubs including Queen's Park at one time had Glasgow as their home base. That total is now four. The best known, perhaps, are Rangers and Celtic playing at Ibrox Stadium and Celtic Park respectively. Glasgow, with its industrial history in ship building and heavy engineering has always had a fervent love of the game at club and international level.
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