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Ailsa F.C.

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Ailsa
Full nameAilsa Football Club
Founded1874
Dissolved1880
GroundBuckingham Park
PresidentA. Dunlop
SecretaryDavid Dunlop
CaptainW. Dyet[1]

Ailsa Football Club was a 19th-century association football club originally based at Pollokshields, in Glasgow.

History

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The club was founded in 1874 and took its name from the rock of Ailsa Craig, and its first reported matches come from the 1875–76 season.[2] It was one of the smaller Glasgow clubs, with a membership of 30 in 1876, more only than Shawfield and Union at the time.[3]

The club first entered the Scottish Cup in 1877–78, losing 2–0 to Lenzie.[4] Ailsa also lost in the first round the following year, 7–0 at Govan, although the North British Daily Mail report incorrectly referred to Ailsa as "Woodburn".[5]

In the 1879–80 Scottish Cup, the club reached the third round; after a walkover in the first, Ailsa beat Rosslyn 3–1,[6] but lost 6–0 at Clyde in the third, even though Clyde played with ten men for the second half.[7]

It was the club's last Cup fixture. Although it did enter the 1880–81 Scottish Cup, it scratched to the Good Templars Harmonic.[8]

A new Ailsa club, with no known link to the original, played in Anniesland in the 1892–93 season.[9][10]

Colours

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The club's colours were pale blue and white 1-inch hooped shirts and stockings, with white knickerbockers.[11]

Ground

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The club originally played at a private ground in Pollokshields.[12] In 1878 the club moved to Buckingham Park off Copeland Road, Govan.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Ailsa club". North British Daily Mail: 3. 13 August 1878.
  2. ^ "2nd Standard v Ailsa". Glasgow Herald: 7. 27 November 1876.
  3. ^ Dick, William (1876). Scottish Football Annual 1876–77. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
  4. ^ "Association Cup ties". North British Daily Mail: 6. 1 October 1877.
  5. ^ 30 September 1878, p. 7
  6. ^ "Scottish Association Ties". Glasgow Herald: 7. 22 October 1879.
  7. ^ "Association Cup ties". Glasgow Evening Post: 4. 3 November 1879.
  8. ^ Mathers, Stewart. "Season 1880–81". Beautiful Dribbling Game. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  9. ^ "Western Thistle v Ailsa". Glasgow Herald: 3. 5 December 1892.
  10. ^ "Gourock v Ailsa Reserves (Glasgow)". Glasgow Herald: 10. 16 January 1893.
  11. ^ Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
  12. ^ Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
  13. ^ Dick, William (1878). Scottish Football Annual 1878–79. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 51.