Ailsa F.C.
| Full name | Ailsa Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1874 | |
| Dissolved | 1880 | |
| Ground | Buckingham Park | |
| President | A. Dunlop | |
| Secretary | David Dunlop | |
| Captain | W. Dyet[1] | |
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Ailsa Football Club was a 19th-century association football club originally based at Pollokshields, in Glasgow.
History[edit]
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[edit]
The club's colours were pale blue and white 1-inch hooped shirts and stockings, with white knickerbockers.[11]
Ground[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "Ailsa club". North British Daily Mail: 3. 13 August 1878.
- ^ "2nd Standard v Ailsa". Glasgow Herald: 7. 27 November 1876.
- ^ Dick, William (1876). Scottish Football Annual 1876–77. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
- ^ "Association Cup ties". North British Daily Mail: 6. 1 October 1877.
- ^ 30 September 1878, p. 7
- ^ "Scottish Association Ties". Glasgow Herald: 7. 22 October 1879.
- ^ "Association Cup ties". Glasgow Evening Post: 4. 3 November 1879.
- ^ Mathers, Stewart. "Season 1880–81". Beautiful Dribbling Game. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Western Thistle v Ailsa". Glasgow Herald: 3. 5 December 1892.
- ^ "Gourock v Ailsa Reserves (Glasgow)". Glasgow Herald: 10. 16 January 1893.
- ^ Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
- ^ Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
- ^ Dick, William (1878). Scottish Football Annual 1878–79. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 51.