It's now been 25 years since the major rebuild of Celtic's Parkhead ground into the world-class stadium we know today.
With a seating capacity of 60,411, Glasgow's Celtic Park is one of the finest and most modern club stadiums in Europe and has long been renowned by visiting teams throughout the continent as a difficult place to take three points.
Beloved by Hoops fans, the ground is a symbol of Celtic that's been around almost as long as the East End team itself.
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First opened in 1892 as a home ground for the newly-formed Celtic Football Club, the original Celtic Park featured a main stand, pavilion and terracing with an overall ground capacity of 40,000 spectators, which was expanded to more than 75,000 by the 1930s.
But as avid Celtic supporters will know (if they know their history), that official capacity counted for very little for the Old Firm derby against Rangers on New Year’s Day 1938, when an estimated 92,000 souls crammed through the gates.
The stadium was renovated several times throughout the years, and by 1957, the capacity was reduced to 65,000.
Following Celtic’s historic European Cup triumph in 1967, when the club became the first non-Latin team to lift the trophy, there were further renovations, including the construction of a new roof over the main stand, which was finished in 1971.
The 1970s also saw the ground used as a gig venue, most famously in 1976 when The Who performed in front of 35,000 adoring rock fans.
To mark the club’s centenary in 1988, the stadium was modernised once more, with the addition of a new façade for the main stand.
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In the 1990s, following the publication of the Taylor Report, the stadium saw huge changes. The main stand was renovated, which included exec boxes and new corporate areas.
During the decade, Celtic Park witnessed its biggest overhaul in generations as a consortium led by Canadian-Sottish businessman Fergus McCann ploughed millions of pounds into rebuilding three sides of the ground from scratch.
While many fans were sad to lose the famous 'Jungle' enclosure, which was replaced in 1995 by the 27,000-seater new north stand, the rebuild brought Celtic Park into the 21st century.
Completed in August 1998, the £26 million redevelopment transformed the Celtic Park, which now had a capacity of 60,832, the largest all-seater club stadium in Britain at that time.
Since the 1990s, the area around Celtic Park has also been heavily redeveloped. A new approach to the stadium, dubbed the Celtic Way, was completed in 2014, while inside the ground new high-def screens and a state-of-the-art lighting installation have been introduced.
In 2018, the club unveiled plans to redevelop the stadium further by rebuilding the 8,000-seater main stand and boosting the overall capacity to around 80,000. The project, which would see the stadium regain its uniformity, could cost as much as £100 million to complete.
Click the gallery link below to see our pictures of Celtic Park and how it's changed throughout the years.
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