Ravenscraig Stadium

Ravenscraig Stadium
Construction
The Grandstand

Full name	Ravenscraig Stadium
Former names	Ravenscraig Stadium
Location	Greenock, Scotland
Coordinates	55°56′25″N 4°48′47″W / 55.94028°N 4.81306°W / 55.94028; -4.81306
Capacity	650
Surface	Grass
Built	1958
Renovated	1992, 2009, 2012

Ravenscraig Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. The stadium is primarily set up for athletics, with a running track, but it is also the traditional home of Greenock Juniors Football Club. The stadium underwent a £1.7 million refurbishment in preparation for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[1]^[2]

The stadium was built in 1958 with a cinder track, upgraded to synthetic in 1992.^[3] Replacement floodlighting was announced in 2015.^[4]

In the 1959–60 season, a capacity crowd of 8,200 watched Greenock Juniors draw 1–1 in a Scottish Junior Cup quarter final with Johnstone Burgh.^[5]

In November 1972 the stadium hosted the first ever official international women's football match to be played in Great Britain. Scotland was defeated 3–2 by England. This was almost exactly a hundred years after the first men's international between the two nations.^[6]^[7]

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^ "Greenock stadium to get £1.7 million upgrade". STV (TV channel). 14 March 2009. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
^ "£1.7m stadium work reaches milestone". Glasgow Times. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
^ Tim Grose (27 December 1999). "Greenock Ravenscraig Stadium". UK Running Track Directory. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
^ "New floodlights for Ravenscraig Stadium". Greenock Telegraph. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
^ "Ravenscraig on track to become top athletics venue". Inverclyde Council. 10 March 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
^ Football Nation: Sixty Years of the Beautiful Game. bloomsbury. 2010. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-4088-0126-0. Retrieved 14 January 2012. ravenscraig stadium.
^ "Recognising the Ravenscraig pioneers". FIFA. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2022.

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