It’s Aberdeen granite from the old Rubislaw quarry (closed in 1971) - the largest man made hole in Europe. Aberdeen granite was considered the best in the world and transported all over the world. Lots of buildings in London have some. The balustrades on Waterloo Bridge for example, are all Aberdeen granite @Footy Adventures

love the work you and a good few other English people give to our league here in Scotland, it is very much appreciated and respected :)

Will be sad when we leave Pittodrie! So many amazing memories! But I think we need better facilities all round! Great video! Hope you're enjoying your time in my home town! Stand Free!!!

Aberdeen knocked us out of the UEFA Cup when we were the champions of it, in the first round in 1981, when Fergie was manager and Gordon Strachan was playing 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚪

Ground was purchased by Banks o Dee in 1965 from Aberdeen engineering firm J M Henderson. They did a deal with Henderson's Managing Director to buy the land. The managing director was Richard (Dick) Spain and the ground is named after him.

Love seeing this. Former season ticket holder and actually had my 21st birthday party in one of the RDS function suites. COYR

A proper Scottish football club with a fantastic History,

No matter what team you support forty adventures content is always amazing and interesting

Aberdeen fan here. We’re now potentially building the new stadium just down the road at the beachfront

Love your enthusiasm for and knowledge of all the clubs you visit no matter how big or small. You understand the reason we support them and never have anything negative to say which is refreshing. Keep it up because I love watching

I’ve played at banks of Dee they let a lot of local teams play here and they are open to the community it’s a great wee stadium

Mate you're so positive and enthusiastic, it's contagious!

As a Celtic fan Ive always had great respect for Aberdeen FC and their history, most of my mates are Dons fans (glory hunters from back in the day btw :) ). We need a strong Aberdeen for Scottish football. I hope they move to a stadium in the city centre, the proposal beside the beach...I think the stadium in Kingsford would be a bad move, soulless stadium in the middle of nowhere.

Film & image is quality feel like I'm actually there...Allways had a soft spot for Aberdeen thanks to the likes of Strachan ,Miller, McGee, Black & Rougvie during the Ferguson day's in the 80's & I'm English...Your passion for the game comes across loud & clear...keep on knocking out your quality vlog's & giving us an insight to Scottish football...👏👏👏

Thanks Sam another great video really enjoy the multi visit stadium videos, you must be clocking up the miles on your car!

Another great video You deserve a medal for your support of grass roots football in Scotland.

I would agree Aberdeen are the 3rd biggest club in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 followed by the 2 Edinburgh clubs then Dundee Utd in 6th

Im on holiday in Scotland and I've been to Hearts so far hoping to go to hibs and Aberdeens grounds in the coming days

Great video, bro. I love seeing all the stadiums and learning all about the history of the different clubs. Celtic fan here but Aberdeen are a great club, very interesting 👍

Thanks for so much Sam. Been waiting for this for a long time.

I am watching back to back of your videos I let them build up so I get lots of content to watch in one go thank you

Great stuff mate .just bought my season ticket .can’t wait get back in next month COYR

Keep going mate💪🏻. Best football content on KZfaq 🔥

Brilliant video mate 👍🏼

Would love to see you go to fort Williams ground. Even if you don’t. Love the videos and the content.

Soul Spirit Tradition - what Alfredo di Stefano said of Aberdeen when they beat his Real Madrid in the 1983 Cup Winner's Cup Final

Very bad idea to move the stadium out of the city! Great Videos mate keep up the good work!

Alan Shields Hamilton South Lanarkshire Scotland. I remember a few seasons ago Ayr United play Banks O'Dee at Spain Park in the early rounds of The Scottish Cup on B.B.C Scotland. Your right about Aberdeen being The Granite City. I had a look at Fanbase yesterday afternoon but there is not to many clubs in The West of Scotland useing it I wish Pollok would use it as it would make things much easier for me to get to some of our games at this time. I am desperate to get to some games not just that I want to travel & get to some games further from home it's so frustrating 🙄🙄🙄🙄. I am sorry for you on a personal level That England could not win The Euro's I did not watch The game myself became of The Main stream Media I could not stand to listen to there absolut rubbish personally. Unlike the mainstream media You always give a balanced view. Hopefully you can actually get to a Premier Sports Cup ( League Cup ) game some time soon. I am looking forward to The first Ayrshire derby of the season at Rugby Park personally It will be good to have Ayrshire derby's in the League & also have The Dundee derby back League wise the more League derbys we can have in Scotland the better for Scottish football we dont get enough League derbys in Scottish football football. Keep Safe.

Could you visit Largs thistle stadium and also I am so glad about what you have done to Scottish football stadiums on KZfaq because it has almost become non existent on KZfaq when the old firm are not a part of it so keep up the good work

Great video @Footy Adventures. I agree it will be really sad when Aberdeen leave Pittodrie for their new stadium. Pittodrie has a lot of character and history. The granite facade and wall is something else and really unique. It should be kept and utilised in some way if and when Aberdeen move stadiums. I have the same feelings about Aberdeen leaving Pittodrie as I do about Everton leaving Goodison Park and think it's a shame that both clubs cannot redevelop/expand their current stadiums.

I've seen the trophy room. Both European trophy and Sheild are worth seeing, as well as the silver replica Gothemburg stadium. Granite maybe grey but on the rare occasion its sunny it glistens. I was lead to believe new stadium was staying in town.

Excellent video thank you 😊

Will be a sad day when we leave Pittodrie, hopefully they build the new one further along the beach and not out at Kingsford. Interesting fact about Pittodrie, it was the first fully seated stadium in the UK and the worlds first football stadium to have a dugout, historic stadium indeed.

Martin Buchan played for Banks O' Dee before he Joined Aberdeen. He went on to be the youngest ever team captain to lift the Scottish Cup and of course, he went on to Captain Scotland and Manchester United (his brother George played for Aberdeen and Manchester United too).

Buzzing this is out! I grew up next to the merkland end! Should try get a ticket for cove v Falkirk at cove on the 31st

I am a as St Albans city fan, love going to Clarence park week in and week out

The new home kit looks pretty slick

'Todders' has been a great home for the Dons over the years. So many great memories. It's the ground where the 'Dugout' was invented, the first all seated, all covered stadium. We've seen titles won on home soil and clinched the European Super Cup at home. Time has come though to move on. The initial design of the proposed new stadium, for me was underwhelming. With the potential of a new site, i hope they redesign. I'd like to see them consider underground parking for example. I'd like to see the frontage look more traditional, incorporate granite or a granite look to the main stand, even if the rest of the stadium is to look modern. I think trying to maintain a certain look of tradition could be a winning idea. We could end up with a bang up to date stadium which preserves the past.

Aberdeen the last club to beat the mighty Real Madrid in a European final.. STAND FREE 👊👊

Great video M8

You need to do a vid about the new season and Aberdeen, we are buzzin about the new team, manager etc. I think it’s going to be very interesting! Aye, we do need a new stadium though

going back to my first Aberdeen game in over a year on thursday and its a European game im buzzing

Please come to Kidderminster Harris vs man u for Pre - seasons on the 6 of August kick off at 7:45 pm

I am from Aberdeen and am a former season ticket holder at Pittodrie (have moved to Dundee and will hopefully be working again soon though unfortunately probably at weekends so won't see much of my home town team live. Have been past Banks O'Dee's ground many times having lived locally to it in the past. Never been in though. Neither have I been to Cove's new ground although seen them at their old ground, Allan Park, including a famous 3-1 friendly win at home to Rangers (yes the proper Rangers who had Chris Woods in goal that day, again the same Chris Woods who had been England's no.1).

my dad played for Banks o Dee in the Scottish Junior Cup Final at Hampden in 1957....they won 1 - 0......

#notificationsquad, hope you’re enjoying my city pal, my brother played for Banks o Dee but he’s with East End now

Sam, have you been to Morayshire yet? I was staying in a lovely wee place called Burghead recently and they've gote their own wee club and ground. Forres is a ten minute drive away, so that's Forres Mechanics, and I saw a few other small stadiums in the area. You could probably do a good scenic video for those places. Especially Burghead. Get yourself to the beaches there.

In the 80s Aberdeen we’re just having good season after good season thanks to Sir Alex Ferguson then He attracted interest from Manchester United he turned the club to battlers like winning the title and even winning two European cups which was in 1999 and 2008 and two fifa cups which was Intercontinental Club Cup 1999 and FIFA Club World Cup 2008

Great video again 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜

Another video from the main man

I’ve always wanted to get to Pittodrie, it’s quite a trek from Hampshire though

The beach end boys are in town oh those days

Banks O'Dee now have a chance to be promoted to the Highland League as now the North Juniors the remaining East Juniors Club and North Caledonian League are now in the pyramid system so if any clubs who win the league at the end of the season are up to standards they could face the bottom Highland League Club in the playoffs

My team!! ✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The council are in talks with Aberdeen FC about building the new stadium just over the other side of the Broadhill at the beach as part of the beach rejuvenation plan. Hopefully this will happen and we won't have to move too far from home. The only problem being, we'll be even closer to the North Sea. 😂

Get yourself down to the Berwickshire region of Scottish Borders to visit Duns that play at New Hawthorn Park. Part of Border Amateur League now I believe. I live here and support Aberdeen. Duns played Aberdeen in a Scottish Cup tie in mid 1950's which does make me laugh having lived in area for 29 years yet supported The Dons three decades now.

Cool video

8:29 i played on that pitch before lol

I loved the stadiums. What a class the Spain Park is. But why the Dons wants to leave Pittodrie is strange. Better to upgrade that epic stadium I belive.

8:20 start of Banks O' Dee FC 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Most if not all the Granite was sourced local & I mean local, a big hole (now full of water) a few miles west of the city centre. Known as Rubislaw Quarry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubislaw_quarry. Pretty much all of Aberdeen is build with this stuff.

As a gers fans I’ll miss pittodrie is a good ground and far better than the soulless new place their liking at

Peterhead was promoted from the Highland League before Cove.

fun fact , pittodrie was the first all seater stadium in europe

I never realised Banks O Dee were an actual club. I thought they were just a sports centre with pitch.

Great video yet again! Who is Aberdeens derby?

Could you do a video on the history of Hull city

fanbase beast

East Kilbride FC and Ayr United would you go too

Love Aberdeen

I'm a Celtic man but best of luck to Aberdeen when their new ground opens, but what about Peterhead FC Aberdeenshire

based on attendances, aberdeen fans left pittodrie a long time ago

Cove are not the only club to be promoted to the spfl. Edinburgh City were promoted the season before Cove.

Let's go

Aberdeen have been talking about it for years but never made any moves It’s been a while since Aberdeen where Scotlands third club

I got a bit of a shock when watching your video and my granite House popped up

I'm always against Clubs leaving their Historic Homes, which, are filled with History, built with character and moving to a Grey, Lego Bricked Ikea Bowl.

That's groundspotting, not groundhopping.

If Aberdeen are building a new stadium, they should have a stadium bigger than 20,000, a new stadium similar to Derby County, Middlesbrough, MK Dons, Leicester City, Southampton

Definitely need to leave Pittodrie. Midden of a place. They're in talks with the council about the new stadium posibally staying down the beach, just across from the old ballroom next to where the skatepark is.

I honestly think Aberdeen are in the top 4 of the biggest clubs in Scotland along with Glasgow City (mainly because of those 14 consecutive league titles).

St Cuthbert Wanderers (Kirkcudbright)

If I remember correctly, Aberdeen was the first all seater stadium in the UK. Bank's O'Dee is a new ground or you and I'd never seen inside it before either. Bank's look like they will be in the Highland League in 2 to 3 season now that the Highland League has been opened up to the pyramid

Please come back to Inverness for a match

What team play at the stadium with the big hedge

Club are normally quite good about letting people in for a tour..... next time contact them in advance.

Aberdeen have been talking about a new stadium for close to 20 years. The financial fallout from the pandemic should make it at least another 10.

The fact that Pittodrie is of an age means it will soon not meeeu presumo que você pode conseguir comida vegetariana para cãest UEFA stadium requirements for European tournaments so they decided to make the move to the edge of the City

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Fantastic ground and fans. Burnley skins. No surrender.

One Top firm Aberdeen in 80’s

turn the old stadium into a museum some amount of history for scotlands 3rd biggest team

I went here in 2021

Aberdeen have played in Europe every year since 2013. Pittodrie has hosted many European clubs since 2013 and meets the relevant standards or they would not be allowed to play the ties there.

Are you still in aberdeen mate I’m one of the lads in aberdeen who runs the charity matches in aberdeen with all the former professional players and am actually off today would be free to show you around and talk about local clubs

I could swear that Dundee Utd were the last team outside the old firm to win the league ?

I’m a Hibs fan and I consider Aberdeen to be the 3rd biggest club

it no wonder they are tiring that shit hole down

Third biggest club mate . No way . Hibs and hearts are much bigger. Just look at hampden attendances and Aberdeen is a one team city. Like your videos though 👍🏻