Broadwood Stadium
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| Location | Cumbernauld, Scotland |
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| Coordinates | 55°56′41.19″N 4°02′13.51″W / 55.9447750°N 4.0370861°W |
| Owner | Broadwood Stadium Company (owned by North Lanarkshire Council) |
| Capacity | 8,086 |
| Field size | 112 x 76 yards (pitch) |
| Surface | 3G artificial pitch |
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| Opened | 1994 |
| Construction cost | £8 million |
| Architect | Walker Group |
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Clyde F.C. (1994 - Present) Airdrieonians (1994 -1998) Cumbernauld Colts (2012 - Present) Scottish Rugby Academy, West (2015 - Present) |
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Broadwood Stadium, commonly referred to as simply Broadwood, is a multi-use community stadium and sports complex in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The stadium is shared by two football clubs: Clyde F.C. of the Scottish Professional Football League and Cumbernauld Colts of the Scottish Lowland Football League. The Scottish Rugby Academy for the Glasgow & The West region is also based at Broadwood.
It has staged the final of Scottish footballs' Scottish Challenge Cup on four occasions and Scottish rugbys' RBS Finals Day. The stadium has also held international Rugby League
Clyde previously played in Glasgow at Barrowfield Park, from their creation in 1877 until 1898, and then Shawfield Stadium from 1898 until they were evicted in 1986. Clyde shared Firhill with fierce rivals Partick Thistle from 1986 until 1991, and then Douglas Park with Hamilton Academical until moving to the purpose built Broadwood in 1994. The move to Broadwood, 10 miles outside Glasgow, meant that the club would lose some fans in the move, but hoped to gain some new supporters in the new town of Cumbernauld, which had never hosted senior football before.
The stadium opened to the public in February 1994 to a full house at that time, of 6000 fans. Clyde lost the game 2–0 against Hamilton Academical. At the time of opening, only two stands, the Main Stand and the West Stand, had been completed, giving the stadium a capacity of 6,000. The third, South Stand was completed in 1997 to bring the overall capacity to just over 8,000. Plans to complete the stadium, and bring the overall capacity to 10,000 were shelved after Clyde failed to win promotion to the Scottish Premier League in 2004. The missing fourth stand has now been replaced by a community sports centre, and opened in 2013.
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