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by the Inverness and Nairn Enterprise Board, sponsors and supporters. The local authority retained ownership of the ground, with Inverness Caledonian Thistle being given a 99-year lease on the site.
When the club won promotion to the Scottish Premier League (SPL) in 2004, they faced a problem in that the Caledonian Stadium did not meet an SPL requirement for stadiums to have 10,000 seats. At that time, the Caledonian Stadium had a total capacity of 6,280 and only 2,280 seats. The club agreed to ground share with Aberdeen at Pittodrie. The SPL initially rejected the ground-sharing application, but accepted it on appeal. The SPL also voted to reduce the 10,000-seat requirement to 6,000. Inverness CT played at Pittodrie for the first two rounds of fixtures of the 2004-05 season, whilst redevelopment works were carried out at the Caledonian Stadium.
The redevelopment in 2004-05 included the construction of two new stands at either end of the ground, which made the stadium all-seater and increased its capacity to over 7,500. These stands were built in a remarkable forty-seven days by the Tulloch Construction Company who are also the
club’s biggest shareholder. As Tulloch also paid part of the development cost, the stadium had the Tulloch name added to it on completion of the work and the lease on the site was transferred to Tulloch. The lease reverted to the football club in December 2017, except for the stadium car parks. In February 2019, the stadium was renamed the “Caledonian Stadium” after long-time sponsors Tulloch gifted the stadium to the club.
In 2007, the club added a very small stand opposite the Main Stand - called the West Stand. It has a capacity of around 400 and was initially intended to be a ‘singing section’. The highest football attendance recorded at the Caledonian Stadium is 7,753, set on 20 January 2008 against Rangers.
In mid-2018, Inverness CT swapped out the original manned turnstiles for more modern barcode scanning ones, becoming one of a handful in Scotland to use these turnstiles, and the first in the Highlands. The ground hosted the 2019 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, played between Highland club Ross County and Welsh side Connah’s Quay Nomads.
In the shed 68 PC December/January 2020
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