  Burnbank Park Location within Glasgow council area | |
| Location | Glasgow, Scotland |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 55°52′20″N4°16′32″W / 55.872354°N 4.275547°W /55.872354; -4.275547 |
| Owner | 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers |
| Surface | Grass |
| Tenants | |
| 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers F.C. 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers RFC Caledonian Cricket Club Glasgow Academicals RFC Rangers F.C. Caledonian F.C. | |
Burnbank Park was a sports ground inGlasgow, Scotland. It was situated in the city'sWoodlands area, found at Barrington Drive (between Great Western Road and Woodlands Road).[1][2] No trace of the ground remains, having been built on by sandstone tenement housing in the late 19th century, which survives into the 21st century. The name endures locally with the Burnbank Bowling Club a few blocks to the south, founded in 1866, around the same time the sports grounds were coming into use for team sports.[3]
Burnbank Park was originally owned by the1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, who used the area for practising their drills.[4] The regiment leased out the ground for use by various sports clubs.[5]
The venue was used for the firstrugby union provincial representative match in the world; the 'Inter-City' match betweenGlasgow District andEdinburgh District on23 November 1872. The current professional district teamsGlasgow Warriors andEdinburgh Rugby play for the1872 Cup to celebrate their first derby match.[6]
The ground was also used as a venue for cricket matches an All-England eleven took on Scottish club sides there.[5]
The 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers had their own short-lived football club which was extant from 1874 to 1883.[7]
The 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers also had arugby union club. One of its players W. A. McDonald played forGlasgow District in the 1884 inter-city match againstEdinburgh District.[8]
The Caledonian Cricket Club was founded c.1850 and used this ground for their matches, together with another ground inKelvinbridge (whereGlasgow Academy is now situated – the school took over the Kelvinbridge site in 1878).
Glasgow Academicals rugby club leased the ground from 1866 to 1872.
The ground was leased toRangers for one season (1875–76).[2] Rangers' first match there was on 11 September 1875 againstVale of Leven; their last was on 18 March 1876 againstClydesdale.[1] At the end of that season, Clydesdale vacated their ground atKinning Park on the south-west side of Glasgow (though technically outside the city boundary at the time) and Rangers took over that site, beginning their enduring association with that part of town.
An off-shoot of the Caledonian Cricket Club was the Caledonian Football Club, who also leased Burnbank.
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