Celtic Park, Paradise, or Parkhead, is a football stadium in the Parkhead neighbourhood of Glasgow, Scotland. The stadium hosts Scottish Premiership club Celtic Football Club. Celtic Park has a capacity of 60,832. This makes it is the biggest football stadium in Scotland.
Celtic Park opened in 1888. In 1892 the club moved to the ground’s current location, after the rent increased on the ground’s initial location. The 1892 site was turned into an oval-shaped stadium, with large terracing sections. The terraces were eventually covered and floodlights got installed between the period of 1957 and 1971.
By the 1990s it became mandated that major clubs in Scotland should have all-seater stadiums by August 1994. Due to Celtic’s poor finances no major work could be carried out until Fergus McCann took control of the club in March 1994. The old terraces got demolished to develop a brand new stadium. The phased rebuild was completed in August 1998. In 2016 the stadium received its last major upgrade with the installation of a section of rail seating.
Celtic Park has been utilized for games of the Scotland national team and Cup finals when Hampden Park was unavailable. Before the First World War, Celtic Park also hosted the 1897 Track Cycling World Championships, open-air masses and First World War recruitment. More recently, Celtic Park hosted the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a concert from U2.