Shawfield Stadium
View from the terracing
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 Shawfield Stadium
Location in South Lanarkshire
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| Location | Rutherglen Road Rutherglen, Glasgow G73 1SZ, Scotland |
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| Coordinates | 55°50′18″N 4°13′44″W / 55.83833°N 4.22889°W |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 1898 |
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Clyde F.C. (1898–1986) Glasgow Tigers (1988-1995, 1997-1998) Scottish Monarchs (1996) |
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Shawfield Stadium is a greyhound racing venue in the Shawfield district of the town of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located close to the boundary with Glasgow.
It has also previously been a regular venue for football and speedway, as home to Clyde F.C. and the Glasgow Tigers respectively. Other sports including boxing and athletics have also been staged there.
From 1997, the stadium has been the only Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) greyhound track still in use in Scotland . It has hosted the Scottish Greyhound Derby since 1989, as it did from 1970 to 1985.
John Bilsland (sole owner of Stanley in Liverpool) helped instigate the plans to open Shawfield in his home town and brought the greyhounds to the home of Clyde F.C.. The football club had been based at the stadium since it opened in 1898 but were experiencing financial difficulties by 1930 resulting in the need to find new income streams. The club had tried previously to allow greyhound racing to take place at Shawfield but the Football league was opposed to the idea. Finally an agreement was reached with the chairman John McMahon and the Shawfield Greyhound Racing Company Ltd (SGRC) was born. The track opened on 14 November 1932 in the North Rutherglen area of Glasgow and was a big galloping circuit of 473 yards with 125 yard straights with well banked bends and it became a very popular venue. When Shawfield opened for racing the city of Glasgow already hosted four other National Greyhound Racing Society affiliated tracks in Albion, Carntyne, White City and Firhill. In addition there were the independent tracks of Clydeholm, Coatbridge and Mount Vernon which totalled eight tracks in Glasgow at the time.
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