Falkirk Stadium
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The main west stand
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 The Falkirk Stadium
Location in Grangemouth
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| Location | Westfield Falkirk Scotland |
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| Coordinates | 56°00′19.37″N 3°45′9.50″W / 56.0053806°N 3.7526389°W |
| Owner | Falkirk Community Stadium Ltd |
| Capacity | 7,937 |
| Record attendance | 7,851 v Hibernian 13th May 2016 |
| Field size | 105 x 68 m |
| Surface | synthetic pitch |
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| Broke ground | 2003 |
| Opened | 2004 |
| Expanded | 2004–2005 (North stand) 2009 (South stand) |
| Architect | Falkirk Council |
| Main contractors | Mowlem (North stand and West stand) Ogilvie (south stand) |
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Falkirk FC (2004–present) |
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The Falkirk Stadium is a football stadium in the east of Falkirk in central Scotland, which is the home ground of Scottish Championship club, Falkirk. The stadium has a capacity of 7,937 and currently consists of three fully completed stands.
The stadium was opened in 2004 with the main stand completed. It became the home of Falkirk in the same year after the club ground shared Ochilview Park for the 2003–04 season whilst the stadium was being constructed. The north and south stands were built and opened in 2005 and 2009 respectively.
Work began on building the stadium in 2003 after Brockville Park, the club's town centre home since 1885, was sold and demolished.
The project of building the stadium was a partnership between Falkirk Football Club and Falkirk Council who set up the Falkirk Community Stadium Ltd which provided the funds to construct and run the stadium. Falkirk Council estimated £6.1 million would be required for the first stage of the Community Stadium build and would contribute £3.1 million initially. The sale of Brockville Park amounted to £9 million pounds for the club, of which £2.8 million went towards the build, whilst £200,000 came from sportscotland.
The first stage of the stadium was completed in time for the 2004–05 football season and Falkirk moved in after spending the previous year ground-sharing with local rivals, Stenhousemuir at their Ochilview Park home.
Falkirk's first ever game at the stadium was a friendly in July 2004 against Dundee resulting in a 2–1 defeat. A month later the first league game was hosted in the stadium with visitors Hamilton Academical drawing 1–1.
In October 2004 construction work commenced for the building of a second stand to the north of the pitch. The stand has a capacity of 2,000. After completion, the £1.58m facility would bring the stadium's capacity to over the Scottish Premier League's 6,000 seating criteria meaning Falkirk would be allowed automatic promotion from the First Division. The stand received its safety certificate in late March 2005, shortly before the SPL's deadline for a stadium which met the seating criteria. By May of the same year the north stand was fully completed.
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