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Celtic Park to host Scottish Cup final

Celtic Park to host Scottish Cup final

Celtic Park has been named as the venue for this season’s William Hill Scottish Cup final.

The Scottish Football Association has also announced Ibrox as the venue for both of the semi-finals.

Hampden is unavailable because it is being redeveloped to stage the athletics events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Celtic Park, which last hosted the final when Hearts beat Rangers in 1998during the rebuilding of Hampden, is Scotland’s largest football stadium with acapacity of 60,355, making it a similar size to the home of Scottish rugby,Murrayfield.

Ibrox holds 51,082.

SFA president Campbell Ogilvie said: “We are fortunate in Scotland to have three world-class football stadia and, with Hampden Park due to undergo redevelopment work ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, it is natural that we would seek to utilise both Celtic Park and Ibrox Stadium as venues for Scottish football’s premier cup competition.”

Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell was “delighted” with the news.

Lawwell said: “As we have seen this season, Celtic Park continues to be one of the finest stadia in European football, producing an occasion and an atmosphere like no other – we are sure our stadium will provide a brilliant setting for our national cup final.

“Clearly, Celtic are cup holders and I am sure Neil (Lennon) and the team will be doing all they can to ensure that we go as far as we can in the competition and hopefully be part of this great final at the end of the season.”

Rangers finance director Brian Stockbridge welcomed the use of Ibrox for the last four.

He said in an SFA statement: “The Scottish FA’s decision to play these ties at the home of Scotland’s most successful club underlines the fact that Ibrox remains one of European football’s elite arenas.

“Of course we hope to travel far in this competition ourselves but no matter who plays at Ibrox they can be certain of the warmest of welcomes.”

The semi-finals will take place on April 12-13 and the final will be held on May 17.