Levendale F.C.

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Levendale
Full nameLevendale Football Club
Founded1879
Dissolved1885
GroundBalloch Road
Hon. SecretaryJames Brown
Match SecretaryPeter Walker

Levendale Football Club was a football club from Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, active in the 19th century.

History[edit]

The club was founded in 1879 in the wake of fellow Alexandria side Vale of Leven. It joined the Scottish Football Association in 1883,[1] after winning 5 of its 10 matches in 1882–83, although one of its players (James Buchanan) had suffered a serious leg break in a friendly against the 1st D.R.V. in February (which Levendale nevertheless won 7–1).[2][3]

Levendale was always a minnow on the Dumbartonshire scene, never claiming more than 30 members; in its final season it was the smallest club in Dumbartonshire.[4] Given the power of the county in the Scottish game - from 1875 to 1888, only one Scottish Cup final did not include a club from the shire - the chances of such a small club ever gaining success were non-existent.

This was borne out by Levendale's record in competitive football. The Scottish Cup was drawn on a regional basis in the era and the only tie the club played - against Vale of Leven in its first entry, in the 1883–84 Scottish Cup - was a 12–0 defeat, 9 of the goals coming in the first half.[5] Faced with the same sort of humiliation the following season against Dumbarton, the club scratched,[6] allowing Dumbarton to arrange a more lucrative friendly with Walsall Swifts - the speed of such arrangements suggesting Levendale had accepted a consideration to step down.[7]

Levendale also withdrew from its two entries in the Dumbartonshire Cup in 1884–85 and 1885–86,[8] and even scratched to the moribund Rock in the first round of the 1885–86 Scottish Cup.[9]

A new Levendale club was formed in 1889,[10] which turned senior in 1892.[11]

Colours[edit]

The club wore blue jerseys and hose, and white knickers.[12]

Ground[edit]

The club's home ground was on Balloch Road, 5 minutes' walk from the station,[13] which it shared with Jamestown.[14]

Notable players[edit]

  • Alexander Henderson, who also played for Vale of Leven and Renton[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Scottish FA Minutes. Glasgow: Scottish Football Association. 21 August 1883. p. 143.
  2. ^ "Accident on the football field". Glasgow Evening Citizen: 3. 19 February 1883.
  3. ^ "Matches played on Saturday". Glasgow Herald: 10. 12 February 1883.
  4. ^ M'Dowall, John (1884). Scottish Football Association Annual 1884-85. Glasgow: H. Nisbet. p. 61.
  5. ^ "Vale of Leven v Levendale". Sporting Life: 4. 13 September 1883.
  6. ^ Scottish FA Minutes 1884–87. Glasgow: Scottish Football Association. 23 September 1884. p. 45.
  7. ^ "To-morrow's football". Glasgow Evening Post: 3. 12 September 1884.
  8. ^ "Dumbartonshire Cup". Scottish Football Historical Archive. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Football". Dundee Evening Telegraph: 2. 23 September 1885.
  10. ^ "Ordinary matches". Glasgow Herald: 10. 14 October 1889.
  11. ^ "Football - Levendale club". Lennox Herald: 3. 25 June 1892.
  12. ^ M'Dowall, John (1883). Scottish Football Association Annual 1883-84. Glasgow: W. Weatherston. p. 50.
  13. ^ M'Dowall, John (1883). Scottish Football Association Annual 1883-84. Glasgow: W. Weatherston. p. 50.
  14. ^ M'Dowall, John (1882). Scottish Football Association Annual 1882–83. Glasgow: W. Weatherston. p. 141.
  15. ^ "Scots Footballer-Cyclist Dead". Dundee Evening Telegraph: 2. 1 August 1934.
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