You're a football genius if you know all these lost Scottish football grounds including former national stadium | The Scottish Sun
HAVE you ever wondered what it's like to walk out onto the pitch at Hampden with Flower of Scotland blaring in the background?
That might be a lifelong dream that you never get then chance to experience but anyone can do the next best thing at the 'old Hampden' just down the road in Mount Florida.
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The current Hampden Park has been the venue used to host Scotland matches since 1906.
There were two previous sites before that which you can visit freely today.
One of them is considered Scotland's most famous abandoned football ground.
The stadium's pavilion was demolished almost 60 years ago but it remains an open space to this day.
Like so many lost stadiums, the memories remain with terracing still in tact.
And footie fans can take a walk along the historic site and pretend they're one of the many forgotten men who represented their country on the same turf over a century ago.
SunSport takes you on a tour of that 'ghost' ground and many others like it which are dotted around Scotland.
SCOTLAND, QUEEN's PARK and THIRD LANARK (Cathkin Park 1884-1967)
CATHKIN PARK is the aforementioned stadium which has been well-preserved since it was closed in 1967.
Previously home to the Scotland national team and Queen's Park, Cathkin Park was deemed out of action when Third Lanark became the first British club to go into liquidation 58 years ago.
It was originally Queen's Park's stadium from 1884 until Third Lanark took their place in 1903 when the final Hampden was built.
The stadium was once the venue for Scotland vs England matches and Scottish Cup finals.
Old stands can still be seen around the pitch, and the empty space was taken over by the Jimmy Johnstone Academy in 2022.
FALKIRK (Brockville 1885-2003)
THIS old ground once had a kitchen window looking straight onto the terracing.
Now it has a whole aisle full of kitchen supplies after being replaced with a supermarket two decades ago.
Falkirk's former stadium Brockville was the venue which hosted the first televised night-time under floodlights when Newcastle came to town for a friendly in 1953.
72 years later it's now a Morrisons superstore but an artifact from the famous stadium still remains.
A cast-iron turnstile is planted permanently outside the front door as testimony to the historic football folklore.
CLYDE (Shawfield Stadium 1898-1986)
FROM football to boxing, motorbikes and dog racing - this stadium certainly had it all.
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Clyde FC's old Shawfield was a famous ground which held up to 40,000 thousand spectators in its heyday.
They played in the stadium from 1898 to 1986 before they were effectively kicked out by the Greyhounds Racing Association when they announced their plans to redevelop the building.
Greyhound racing had been taking place at Shawfield since 1932, some 34 years AFTER Clyde made it their home ground.
After years of financial troubles and attempts by the GRA to sell the land to Asda, Clyde were told to move on.
The Glasgow Tigers speedway team became the new tenants from them on but it's been out of use since 2020 and has lied empty and cut adrift from society since.
AIRDRIE (Broomfield Park 1892-1994)
THEY say Diamonds are forever.
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But Airdrie's old stadium Broomfield Park is no more after being demolished and replaced with a Morrisons supermarket, similar to Falkirk's Brockville.
Memories of the famous ground will live on though as it held a Rangers title party in 1993 and hosted a Ballon d'Or winner the previous year.
Juventus legend Pavel Nedved visited the stadium with Sparta Prague in the Cup Winners Cup in 1992 and his team ran out 1-0 winners in North Lanarkshire.
CLYDEBANK (Kilbowie Park 1939-1996)
TRANSFORMING famous stadiums into shops seems to be a growing trend.
Clydebank's Kilbowie Stadium is the latest ground in this list to have been demolished to make way for supermarkets.
The previous landmark region in Clydebank is now a retail park after former owners Jack and Charlie Steedman cashed in on the land in 1996.
It was once an iconic stadium in Scotland when the Bankies became a mainstay in the top flight.
Rangers hero Davie Cooper played there for a number of years and was one of the many greats who kicked a ball on the famous pitch.
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ST JOHNSTONE (Muirton Park 1924-1989)
THE opening of a new stadium is like Christmas Day for some fans.
And St Johnstone supporters got the best of both worlds when this iconic venue opened for the first time on December 25, 1924.
101 years ago the Saints hosted Queen's Park at Muirton Park and made it their home for 65 years before McDiarmid Park took its place.
The record attendance of 29,972 was set in a 1950/51 Scottish Cup tie against Dundee and it remained very much the same with few changes throughout the 65 years.
A terracing cover was added in the early 50s and floodlights were first used for a game against Hearts in 1964.
Geoff Brown sold the land to supermarket chain Asda for around £4million in 1989 and the new stadium McDiarmid Park cost the club £4.9m to build.
DUMBARTON and CLYDEBANK (Boghead Park 1879-2000)
KILBOWIE isn't the only former Clydebank stadium to feature in this list.
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The Bankies moved to Boghead Park in 1996 after Kilbowie was demolished and they were the final team to play at the venue, which was the oldest stadium in Scotland that was still in continuous use in 2000.
It was originally home to Dumbarton and it was their ground for their famous league championship win which they shared with Rangers in 1891. They then became the first outright champions the following year.
Many changes were made to the iconic venue over the years.
The pitch was turned 90 degrees in 1913 and the club constructed a tiny main stand, nicknamed the "Postage Box", which only had a capacity of 80 seats.
It stayed there for decades until a bigger stand, which held 303 people, was built in its place 1980.
The stadium's record attendance was 18,001 for a Scottish Cup clash in 1957.
Dumbarton had ambitious plans to transform the venue into an all-seater stadium with a capacity of 9,000 but the proposal was ditched and the land was sold to housing developers.
ST MIRREN (Love Street 1894-2009)
St Mirren fans used to call this place their second home.
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Now punters can literally live and breathe their club on the land where the stadium once sat, while also taking in clashes at the SMiSA Stadium in Paisley.
Love Street was once where Ruud Gullit, Johan Cruyff and even Scotland boss Steve Clarke strutted their stuff. Sir Alex Ferguson started his career there before his career skyrocketed.
But while the stadium is no more, the legacy lives on as some fans find themselves now LIVING on the grounds after the stadium was demolished and replaced with a housing estate.
The Buddies were in talks to sell the site to Tesco but talks fell through and Love Street ended up being one of the few grounds not converted into aisles and trolleys.
The memories of the stadium carry on to this day as streets in the estate were named after club legends.
Fans can live on streets named after the likes of famous striker McGarr Terrace, midfielder Tony Fitzpatrick, fan favourite Billy Abercromby plus other roads such as Saints Street and North Bank.
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