Stadium
Airdrie play their home fixtures at Excelsior Stadium, also unofficially known as New Broomfield. The ground was built when now defunct Airdrieonians' previous home, Broomfield Park, was sold to supermarket chain Safeway, who were given permission to build a new store on the site. This transaction has been cited as being the cause of the financial ruination of the club, as their old ground was demolished several years before they acquired planning permission for the new stadium. In the intervening years the club ground-shared Broadwood Stadium, in Cumbernauld, the home of Clyde.
The ground is owned by Broomfield Stadium Ltd, previously Excelsior Stadium Ltd, who rent the stadium to Airdrie.
It has an all-seated capacity of 10,171 and at the end of the 2009–10 season, a new 3G artificial surface was installed.
In 2003 a ground share was proposed with Falkirk as their ground did not meet SPL requirements, this was later refused as Falkirk could not prove the SPL fixtures would have priority. Queen of the South played their Uefa Cup tie in 2008 at the ground as did Motherwell in 2009.
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