Falkirk Stadium

FC Falkirk

The Falkirk Community Stadium (short: Falkirk Stadium ) is a football stadium in Falkirk, Scotland. It is the home of Scottish football club FC Falkirk.

The club moved to the stadium opened in 2004, when the old venue Brockville Park was sold to supermarket chain Morrisons because of Brockville Park no longer met the requirements of the Scottish Premier League.

First, two of the four stands were completely built, the main stand ( West Stand ) in 2004 and the North Stand in 2005. Among the followers of the homestead half a stadium was therefore (English Half A stage) called. The first game in the new stadium played Falkirk in July 2004 against FC Dundee. The spectator capacity was at that time 6,935 places. 2009, the South Stand was completed and inaugurated in August 2009 with a friendly match against Royal Antwerp. Upon completion of the remaining works to find space in the stadium of 12,800 people. This number can increase but after the planned construction of the Ecktribünen yet.

The record attendance is dated December 2, 2006 from the game against Falkirk Glasgow Rangers with 7,245 spectators.

In addition to the championship matches of FC Falkirk found in the stadium, many international rugby matches, football matches of Scottish women and the male U21 national teams as well as open-air concerts (such as Elton John 2012 ) instead.