Organisers are hoping thousands of fans will bid for mementos of the Games, raising extra funds that will go towards the cost of staging the event, estimated to be around £575 million ($985 million/€719 million).

Bids are being invited for a range of sporting items from rugby balls and badminton nets to boxing gloves and pieces of the athletics track at Hampden Park, which is set to see the likes of six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Great Britain's double London 2012 gold medallist Mo Farah performing.

Parts of the medal podiums and trays as well as costumes from the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at Celtic Park and Hampden will also be on offer.

Mo Farah will be one of the stars performing at the new athletics track in Hampden Park during the Commonwealth Games this month ©Getty Images




The website is due to be launched later this month ahead of the start of the Games on July 23, with signed photos of athletes among the first items available to buy.

To register for the auction and to receive updates on the official Glasgow 2014 auction website, click here.

Once registered, fans will be entered into a competition to win one of four framed commemorative photos of the Opening Ceremony at Celtic Park.

Similar auctions have been held following recent Olympic Games at Sochi 2014, London 2012 and Vancouver 2010.

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