Glebe Park, Brechin
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Glebe Park in 1983
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 Glebe Park
Location in Angus
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| Location | Brechin, Scotland |
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| Owner | Brechin City F.C. |
| Capacity | 3,960[1] (1,519 seated)[2] |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | 1919 |
| Tenants | |
| Brechin City F.C. (1919–present) | |
Glebe Park is a football stadium in Brechin, Scotland, which is the home ground of Brechin City.
Glebe Park opened in 1919.[3] The ground had just one portable stand, which had been used at the Perth agricultural show.[3] Brechin City joined the Scottish Football League in 1929, when a pavilion was added and the Cemetery End terrace was covered.[3] The biggest ever attendance was 8,123, against Aberdeen in a Scottish Cup tie played on 3 February 1973.[3] This attendance was greater than the population of Brechin.[3] Floodlights were installed and used for the first time in 1977, in a match against Hibernian.[3]
The old stand was replaced by a new Main Stand, with 290 seats, in 1981.[3] Sponsorship by the Stewart Milne group and a Football Trust grant of £210,000 financed the construction of a 1,228 seat stand at the Trinity Road end of the ground.[3] This stand had double the capacity of Brechin City's average attendance, which attracted criticism from non-league clubs in England, who believed that the Football Trust should fund their developments instead.[3]
Unusually, the largest stand in the ground was built behind the goal, rather than the side opposite the Main Stand.[3] This was because that side is constrained by a terrace and the Glebe Park hedge, which runs past more than half of the pitch.[3][4][5] The hedge was threatened in 2009 because Glebe Park's pitch dimensions were too small for it to meet UEFA requirements, at just 67 yards wide.[3][4][5] A fine was suspended by the SFA because Brechin City carried out some work to resolve the problem.[6] There is a small training pitch behind the hedge.
Glebe Park has also been used for the reserve team matches of Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen.
References
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- ↑ Rangers' Ramsdens Cup tie will go ahead in Brechin - BBC Sport, 17 July 2012
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Inglis 1996, p. 430
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