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The Falkirk Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Falkirk, central Scotland, which is the home ground of Scottish Championship club Falkirk and Lowland Football League club East Stirlingshire since 2018. The stadium has a capacity of 7,937 [1] and currently consists of three fully completed stands.
The Falkirk Stadium has been Falkirk's home since 2004. When the SPL was created in 1998, Brockville Park fell short of the SPL's stadium criteria, mainly because of the terraced stands. As a result, the club was denied entry to the league, despite winning the First Division or qualifying for a promotion play-off, on three occasions.
Brockville Park was a football stadium located on Hope Street in Falkirk, Scotland, 0.25 miles (0.4 km) north-west of the town centre. It was the home of Falkirk F.C. from 1885 until the end of 2002–03 Scottish football season. [3] The record attendance at Brockville Park was 23,100 on 21 February 1953 in a match against Celtic.
Falkirk currently has three men's football teams, Falkirk Football Club, Stenhousemuir F.C. and East Stirlingshire Football Club. The main stand of the Falkirk Stadium. Falkirk F.C. was founded in 1876 and was elected to compete in the Scottish Football League in 1902.
The three largest football stadiums in the country are located in Scotland's largest city Glasgow – Celtic Park, Hampden Park (the football ground of the national football team) and Ibrox Stadium. Other notable large football stadiums include Rugby Park in Kilmarnock, Almondvale Stadium in Livingston, and Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen.
Since the summer of 2018, East Stirlingshire have been playing their home matches at Falkirk Stadium which is the home ground of local rivals Falkirk. [57] In May 2014, the club entered into a partnership with LK Galaxy Sports and others to develop a new playing facility at the former BP Club site at Little Kerse, between Grangemouth and ...
The stadium became the third venue in Falkirk to introduce greyhound racing following Firs Park and Brockville Park. The site chosen in 1932 for the newly purpose built track was on the old Springfield Iron Foundry. Falkirk at the time was immersed in iron works with a significant percentage of the population employed in the industry.
The Bairns were angered when Inverness Caledonian Thistle, who already had a new stadium but not of sufficient size, were allowed to join the SPL for the 2004–05 campaign on a ground-sharing agreement with Aberdeen [23] (100 miles away from their home city), albeit only for six months during expansion work, when Falkirk had been denied such ...