{"id":23943,"date":"2025-04-16T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23943\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:33:09","slug":"celtic-and-rangers-in-stunning-shared-stadium-talks-with-third-club-as-sfa-involved-in-early-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23943\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic and Rangers in stunning shared stadium talks with third club as SFA involved in early discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"

CELTIC and Rangers sharing a stadium isn’t exactly something you’d expect to see.<\/p>\n

But alongside Glasgow<\/a> City, it’s something that very much could become a reality.<\/p>\n

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Celtic and Rangers Women could potentially share a home stadiumCredit: Getty\"Holland<\/a><\/p>\n

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Glasgow City could also be a part of the agreementCredit: Getty\"Broadwood<\/a><\/p>\n

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Broadwood currently hosts Rangers Women matchesCredit: SNS<\/p>\n

That’s because the three powerhouses of women’s football are reportedly in tentative talks over a revolutionary groundshare.<\/p>\n

The Herald<\/a> are reporting that Celtic<\/a>, Glasgow City and Rangers<\/a> are involved in early discussions initiated by Mike Mulraney, the Scottish FA’s President.<\/p>\n

It’s claimed the three Glasgow clubs – who are all full-time – are ‘receptive’ to the idea of sharing a brand new stadium.<\/p>\n

It’s also suggested the Scotland women’s national team could play in the new arena, which would hold between 3,000 and 5,000 supporters.<\/p>\n

The proposal is seen as part of a push to grow the women’s game in Scotland<\/a> ahead of the country co-hosting matches at the 2035 Women’s World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Glasgow City currently play at Petershill Park, while Celtic play home games at Hamilton’s New Douglas Park.<\/p>\n

Rangers have been using Broadwood in Cumbernauld, the former home of Clyde.<\/p>\n

Described as a ‘hub venue’, the new stadium would permit two of the teams to play home matches each weekend.<\/p>\n

It isn’t the first time this year that the groundsharing proposals have been floated.<\/p>\n

The idea was first publicly suggested by Donald Gillies<\/a>, the managing director of Rangers Women.<\/p>\n

10,000 attend test event at Everton\u2019s new stadium<\/p>\n

At a Rangers Fan Advisory Board meeting, Gillies spoke about the idea of creating a purpose-built stadium for women’s football in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

He said: “Let me choose my words carefully. I stress this is only aspirational, but there would be ways of doing it with multi partnership groups, particularly the other women\u2019s teams in Glasgow, as well as the Scotland national team.<\/p>\n

“It could be funded by four or five different organisations and clubs.<\/p>\n

“In my\u00a0opinion, Hampden isn\u2019t working for the women\u2019s national team. It\u2019s too big for attendances of 8,000.<\/p>\n

“But if you had a fit for purpose stadium specifically for women\u2019s football, with\u00a0restaurants\u00a0and other facilities, a grass playing surface and capacity of 8,000, then suddenly you\u2019re looking at stadia sell-outs and a better atmosphere and matchday experience.<\/p>\n

“You could have that Friday night football and two games on a Sunday, one after the other. You\u2019d have a fit for purpose stadium with two sets of\u00a0home and away\u00a0dressing rooms, on opposite sides of the pitch.<\/p>\n

Read more on the Scottish Sun<\/p>\n

“Strategically, that needs to be part of the conversation. I believe it should be the\u00a0next\u00a0landmark moment for the women\u2019s game in Scotland.”<\/p>\n

Given the SFA now seem to be involved in early-level discussions, it appears the idea could get off the ground.<\/p>\n

Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CELTIC and Rangers sharing a stadium isn’t exactly something you’d expect to see. But alongside Glasgow City, it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,2353,918,4884,5074,712,189,16,15,13582],"class_list":{"0":"post-23943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-celtic","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-rangers","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-section-sportfootball","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-womens-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}