Construction at Toryglen’s new £14.5m world-class football facility, including Scotland’s first full-size indoor pitch, has been given the green light.

The Toryglen project will comprise both indoor and outdoor football pitches. Hundreds of Glasgow’s schoolchildren will have access to the facilities as part of the Executive’s Active Schools Programme and the new pitches will be used by the SFA for their Action Plan for Youth Football.

Councillor John Lynch, member for Mount Florida and convener of the Culture and Leisure Services Committee, said, ‘Toryglen is a unique football development and the perfect neighbour for the National Stadium at Hampden. It will be a wonderful addition to the existing top-class sporting facilities in Glasgow. I’m especially pleased that the new facility will be widely used across the community as well as by top-class professional footballers.’

Glasgow City Council will provide £11.5 million towards the project, and the Scottish Executive, through sportscotland, will contribute the remaining £3 million. The Toryglen project is the first of ten to receive stage two approval, as part of the Executive’s £50 million National and Regional Sports Facilities Strategy.

Julia Bracewell OBE, Chair of sportscotland, said, ‘It is great to see the first project from the strategy gaining stage two approval. This is an important football facility close to Hampden, and will be the first full-size indoor pitch in Scotland and a key training and competition facility for Glasgow.’