Rangers and Celtic GROUND SHARE floated as Ibrox women's chief reckons new stadium could spark Hampden flit

Rangers Women’s team chief Donald Gillies has floated the idea of building a stadium for ALL Glasgow-based women’s teams - and the national side.

Gillies, formerly Head of Girls and Women’s Football at the SFA and also ex technical director at Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club in the USA, put forward the idea during a meeting with the Rangers Fan Advisory board last month. In minutes from the meeting which have now been made public, Gillies put forward the idea to ensure the Rangers Women’s team have a Glasgow home - they currently play most of their matches in North Lanarkshire at Broadwood with rivals Celtic in nearby Airdrie.

He reckons the multi partnership with the likes of Glasgow City, Celtic and other Glasgow teams Queen's Park and Partick Thistle, along with the national team, could help create a venue that is suitable for all - as he also made a commitment to Rangers playing in the SWPL after recent talk of a potential move to England for the Old Firm.

In the notes, he said: “Being a club in Glasgow, and having a home there is an important factor for the future. To not look at ways of creating a stadium in Glasgow that represents Rangers and its supporters would be very short sighted.

"However, I’m mindful of the sentiment here – people will rightly ask what it would cost, how can the club pay, even why should the club pay. I get that.

“I stress this is only aspirational, but there would be ways of doing it with multi partnership groups, particularly the other women’s teams in Glasgow, as well as the Scotland national team. It could be funded by four or five different organisations and clubs.

"Let me be frank, in my opinion, Hampden isn’t working for the women’s national team. It’s too big for an attendance