As Scotland enters the final 24 hours before their opening game of the 2026 World Cup, another piece of football history is kicking off closer to home. We are delighted to officially open The Fifth Hampden — the World's Smallest Football Museum. The Fifth Hampden is dedicated to celebrating all things Scottish football, that helped create and shape the modern global game.

Scott McTominay's famous bicycle kick has been immortalised by Ashley Rawson, one of Glasgow’s trailblazing contemporary artists, who has designed the ultimate national team predictor - The Scott McTom-O-Meter. Everyone has a chance to spin ‘Scott’ to predict whether Scotland will ‘Win, Lose, Draw, or Boogie’. Ashley has teamed up with Football’s Square Mile and The Association of Tartan Army Clubs to commission this amazing artwork, which will be housed at Glasgow Central

Today is the most important day in the football heritage calendar. We call it Football’s Square Mile Day, where we actively encourage everyone who loves the beautiful game to put on their shoes or trainers, or their bicycle clips, or get in the car, bus, or train, and explore the wonderful football heritage found within the World’s Biggest Open-Air Football Museum. We have moved football heritage out of the museums and archives, and back into the streets where the game deve

The scheduling of the First Hampden site within Kingsley Rose Gardens, by Historic Environment Scotland, is seismic for everyone involved in this 11-year footballing journey.

The Fifth Hampden is the world’s smallest football museum, and today, Football’s Square Mile, the world’s largest open-air football museum, are delighted to announce a new partnership to create the Football Heritage Awards.

On this day, 27th March 2026, 121 years to the day, we say goodbye to a fixture of Glasgow's southside.

On Thursday 19th March 2026, the public consultation on the proposed designation of the site of the 1st Hampden Pavilion, situated within Kingsley Rose Gardens, will close. Historic Environment Scotland want to seek your views on whether this piece of ground, containing the remains of the 1st Hampden foundations, should be made a national scheduled monument.

Today we prorogue The Hampden Collection Machinery and merge it all into Football's Square Mile

Today, we are delighted that Historic Environment Scotland released its consulation for its proposal to designate the buried remains of the 1st Hampden Pavilion within Kingsley Rose Gardens, as a Scheduled Monument.

This is the speech by Graeme Brown, Secretary of Hampden Bowling Club, Founder of The Hampden Collection and Director of Football's Square Mile, from our Last Stanza Event held on St Valentine's Day 2026 - a massive thank you to all the organisers and the Poets for putting on a brilliant last ceilidh!

First Hampden Community Interest Company Joins The Football’s Square Mile Alliance

Historic Environment Scotland has completed the designation proposals for Cathcart Cemetery and has given the site, Category C listing.

On Wednesday 14th January, Hampden Bowling Club held a stakeholder event to highlight the impending closure of the club, but also highlight the beginnings of what could be the future of this important community, and massively important football heritage, site. This event primarily focused on bringing together elected representatives and key stakeholders to hear the current status of the Bowling Club shutdown plan, and to give them an opportunity to visit the site. The invite

QUEEN’S PARK has joined the support for the club’s first Hampden Park home to be preserved as a monument to modern football.

QTV, Scotland's award-winning and leading independent outside broadcast facility, joins the Football’s Square Mile Alliance and adds itself to the growing list of organisations calling for the site of the First Hampden Park to be saved.

Cricket Scotland is pleased to show its support for highlighting and preserving Glasgow and Scotland’s rich sporting heritage by officially joining Football’s Square Mile Alliance.

1st December 2025 SCOTLAND’S LARGEST CONSERVATION CHARITY CALLS FOR THE HOME OF SCOTTISH FOOTBALL TO BE SAVED FROM AN OWN GOAL As the men’s football team makes plans for the 2026 World Cup and Scottish football sits top of mind for many across the country, the National Trust for Scotland has added its voice to those seeking assurances about the preservation of the first ever Hampden Park in Glasgow. The site, at Kingsley Avenue in Glasgow’s southside, is where Scottish and In

The Hampden Collection invites you to join in our 'Last Stanza' campaign to shine a light on the impending closure of Hampden Bowling Club and the risk of the 1st Hampden Site to an uncertain future. What better way of doing it than lighting up Hampden Bowling Club for St Andrew's Day and for Christmas?

We are bringing mobile technology to football heritage, with the announcement that our App designer has joined the Football's Square Mile Alliance.

16th November 2025 Two Historic Footballing Cities Unite To Save First Hampden Hampden Bowling Club, located on the site of the First Hampden Park, has announced that it will close on 28 February 2026. This has sent reverberations around the local community, become a talking point in various heritage groups, and is beginning to become a subject of national debate, with the news starting to travel internationally across the footballing world. The key question everyone is askin