There are few stadiums in the world as iconic and storied as Glasgow's Hampden Park.
For 120 years, the Mount Florida landmark has been the spiritual home of Scottish football and bore witness to countless thrilling national team encounters, major cup ties, and, in more recent times, huge concerts and events.
The roots of the famous stadium go back to 1873, when Queen's Park Football Club, Scotland's oldest club side, established the first Hampden Park - the first of a trio.
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Located on the site of the modern-day Hampden Bowling Club, the ground took its name from the nearby Hampden Terrace, which, rather intriguingly, for what would become Scotland's national stadium, was named after English landowner and politician John Hampden, who had fought on the side of the roundheads in the English Civil War.
Lasting 10 years, and also hosting the 1874 Scottish Cup Final and a Scotland v England match in 1878, the first Hampden Park was replaced in 1884 by a second ground, which would later become Cathkin Park.
Queen's Park relocated to what would turn out to be the third and final Hampden in 1903.
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Designed in an oval shape, which was common among Scottish football grounds of the era, with a grandstand and three vast, earthen terraces the new Hampden proved the perfect home for both Queen's Park and Scotland.
Expanded numerous times in its early years, and with a theoretical capacity of more than 183,000, Hampden Park was the largest stadium in the world until the opening of Brazil's Maracana in 1950.
Over the years, the national stadium would rack up a series of world attendance records, many of which will likely never be surpassed.
In 1937 alone, the ground smashed two major attendance records. April saw Scotland defeat England 3-1 in front of an astonishing 149,415 spectators - a British record, while that same month the Scottish Cup Final was played between Celtic and Aberdeen with 146,433 in attendance. The latter remains a European record for a club match.
Such huge attendances and the incredible vocal support from Scots football fans made Hampden a veritable fortress of the national team. The famous 'Hampden Roar' would echo down the ages.
Other notable records include the 127,621 who witnessed Real Madrid defeat Eintracht Frankfurt at Hampden in the 1960 European Cup Final, and the 136,505 attendance for the Celtic-Leeds European Cup semi in 1970.
By the late 1970s, it was clear that the ageing Hampden Park, which still had huge sections of uncovered terracing, was no longer fit for the modern game and a major redevelopment was required.
The multi-million pound project to transform Hampden Park into an all-seater stadium was completed in 1999, with the new-look ground able to accommodate 51,866 supporters.
Click the gallery link below to see our pictures of Hampden Park and how it's changed throughout the years.
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