Brockville Park was a football stadium located on Hope Street in Falkirk, Scotland, 0.25 miles (0.4 km) north-west of the town centre. It was the home of Falkirk F.C. from 1885 until the end of 2002–03 Scottish football season.
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 Falkirk Stadium was built as a joint venture project between Falkirk Football Club and Falkirk Council in 2003, and the stadium is now operated and managed by the Council working in partnership with the club.
Aberdeen Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland. They compete in the Scottish Premiership and have never been relegated from the top division of the Scottish football league system since they were elected to the top flight in 1905.
On 21 February 1953, Falkirk's largest home attendance was recorded at the ground when 23,100 spectators watched the club play against Celtic in the third round of the Scottish Cup.
A great afternoon out at this lovely stadium and a grand game of football too. The astro turf playing surface, the excellent seating, great service and great pies and hot drinks at half time made for a super day out from Edinburgh at this great wee football club.
The club now plays its home matches at Falkirk Stadium, Falkirk. Falkirk F.C. are better known as "the Bairns", a nickname derived from the old burgh of Falkirk motto, "Better meddle wi' the deil than the Bairns o' Falkirk."
The whole system which cost some £17 million was completed by a large basin linked to the Forth and Clyde, and a Visitor Centre. On May 24th 2002 the Wheel was officially opened by the Queen.
On this website you can find out about Falkirk district's twin areas – Creteil and Odenwald – and how you can become a member of one or both of the local twinning associations. Both groups can give free help and advice to Scottish organisations trying to forge links with Germany and France.
Big in Falkirk was a festival of the arts held in Falkirk, Scotland, from 2000 to 2009. Since its inception in 2000, the award-winning (Scottish Thistle Award Events & Festivals 2005) free weekend event was one of the largest cultural events in Scotland, attracting over 100,000 people.
In the campaign that followed Wallace was outnumbered and forced to employ hit and run tactics, avoiding open battle, and implementing a policy of clearing or destroying resources in the path of the English army in order to weaken its ability to fight.
A new artificial pitch is to be laid at the Falkirk Stadium. The club has received more than £230,000 in UK Government funding for the project. Over £330,000 in total is to spent on a new surface at the stadium. The Bairns moved into the stadium in 2004, with an artificial surface installed in 2013.
The process of installing Falkirk FC's new artificial playing surface has begun ahead of the new campaign, with the club benefiting from £232,932 in funding from a UK government Levelling Up scheme.
How many times have Falkirk been in the Scottish Cup final?
The club has reached the final of the Scottish Cup five times, winning two, as well as winning the Scottish Challenge Cup a record four times. Falkirk has competed in a European club competition once; in 2009–10, Falkirk qualified for the inaugural season of the Europa League as runners-up of the 2008–09 Scottish Cup.
Falkirk – called 'The Bairns' (the children). This nickname is taken from the motto of the burgh of Falkirk which warns: “Better meddle wi the deil than the Bairns o Fawkirk' (better meddle with the devil than the children of Falkirk). In Scots the name of the town is The Fawkirk (the speckled church).
It's Nicknamed “The Granite City” And Is One Of The UK's Biggest Granite Suppliers. Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed two common nicknames for Aberdeen above – “The Silver City” and “The Granite City”.
They were spared relegation in 1917 after having to withdraw from the league because of World War I. In 2000, they avoided a play-off against the second and third place teams in the First Division because Falkirk's ground did not comply with SPL regulations.
