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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 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Falkirk Football Club )〕 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. ==History== Work began on building the stadium in 2003〔(Falkirk Stadium approved ... now work begins ), ''Falkirk Herald''. 20 March 2003. Retrieved 10 January 2012.〕 after Brockville Park, the club's town centre home since 1885, was sold and demolished.〔(£9 million deal agreed for Brockville ), ''Falkirk Herald''. 19 July 2002. Retrieved 10 January 2012.〕 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.〔(News ), The Falkirk Stadium. 25 July 2004. Retrieved 11 January 2012.〕 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〔(Work to start on new stand ), ''Falkirk Herald''. 29 April 2004. Retrieved 12 January 2012.〕 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〔(Falkirk stadium gets green light ), BBC Sport. 31 March 2005. Retrieved 11 January 2012.〕 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.〔(Falkirk Stadium building design ), Falkirk Council. Retrieved 11 June 2013.〕 Construction of the south stand began in December 2008 by contractors Ogilvie.〔(Work on third stand gets underway ), BBC News. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2012.〕 A £2m pledge from Sandy Alexander, founder of Schuh and Falkirk supporter, helped fund the project.〔 The south stand has a capacity of around 2,000 and is identical in appearance to the north stand of the stadium.〔(What's The Ground Like? ), Scottish Football Grounds Guide. 22 April 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2013.〕 It was officially opened in August 2009 in a friendly game against Royal Antwerp FC of Belgium.〔(Club debut for new stadium stand ), BBC News. 30 July 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2012〕 This brought the capacity of the stadium to around 8,000 people without the inclusion of the temporary east stand. The joint venture that was set up between Falkirk F.C. and Falkirk Council, ended in 2009, just a few months before the opening of the south stand. The football club took full control of the facilities such as the pitch, seats, under-soil heating and floodlights,〔 whilst the council retained most of the development rights for the site and manages and receives rent from businesses set up the stadium's main west stand.〔 An artificial playing surface was installed at the stadium in June 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Falkirk Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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