Arbroath F.C.
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| Full name | Arbroath Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Red Lichties | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1878 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Gayfield Park Arbroath Angus, Scotland |
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| Capacity | 6,488 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  John Christison |
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| Manager | John McGlashan |
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| League | SFL Third Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-2006 | SFL Third Division, 4th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arbroath F.C. are a Scottish Association football team currently playing in the Scottish Football League.
They were founded in 1878 and currently play their home matches at Gayfield, Arbroath, Angus. They play in maroon strips, and are nicknamed "The Red Lichties" due to the red light that used to guide fishing boats back from the North Sea to the burgh's harbour.
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[edit] Record score
Their most notable achievement is that they hold the record for the biggest victory in World senior football, when on September 12, 1885 they beat Bon Accord 36-0 in a Scottish Cup match with further goals disallowed for offside [1] [2]. Jocky Petrie scored 13 goals in that game, also a record as the most goals by a single player in a British senior match. By coincidence, on the same day in another Scottish Cup match, Dundee Harp beat Aberdeen Rovers 35-0. On September 3, 1887, Arbroath were drawn in the same competition against Orion football club - the team that should have been invited to the Scottish Cup match in 1885 instead of the Orion cricket club. The result on this occasion was 20-0.
[edit] Recent history
The team has had mixed success in recent years. In the 1996-97 season they hit the bottom of the Scottish senior football standard as they finished bottom of the Third Division. However, the follow season they were promoted to the Second Division against all expectations. They spent three years at this level before winning promotion to the First Division - arguably the club's greatest achievement in recent history. They finished 7th in their first season in the First Division, 13 points clear of relegation troubles, which was rather impressive for their first ever venture at this level. However, in the 2002-03 season, the team struggled badly, and finished bottom of the table, 20 points adrift of penultimate side Alloa. In the 2003-04 season, Arbroath narrowly avoided back-to-back relegations, as they escaped the drop on the last day of the season. In 2004-05, however, there was no such escaping, as a 3-0 defeat at Dumbarton on April 30, 2005 condemned them to the Third Division for next season.
Therefore, in recent years the club has risen from the depths of the Third Division to the heights of the First Division, then fallen back down to the basement league.
[edit] First-team squad
As of 29 November 2006, according to official website: [1]
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[edit] Managers
- Bob McGlashan (-1946)
- Archie Anderson (1946-1949)
- Alec Cheyne (1949-1955)
- Tommy Gray (1955-1957)
- Chris Anderson (1957-1960)
- John Prentice (1960-1962)
- Albert Henderson (1962-1979)
- Ian Stewart (1979-1982)
- George Fleming (1982-1985)
- Jimmy Bone (1985-1987)
- John Young (1987-1990)
- Ian Gibson (1990-1991)
- Walter Borthwick (1991)
- Mikey Lawson (1991-1992)
- Danny McGrain (1992-1994)
- Jocky Scott (1994)
- George Mackie (1994-1995) with Donald Park (1994)
- John Brogan (1995-1996)
- Tommy Campbell (1996-1997)
- Dave Baikie (1997-2000)
- John Brownlie (2000-2003)
- Stevie Kirk (2003-2004)
- Harry Cairney (2004-2005)
- John McGlashan (2005-present)
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[edit] Honours
Level 2 (Scottish Division One, Scottish Second Division, Scottish B Division, Scottish Second Division) Runners-up 1934-35, 1958-59, 1967-68, 1971-72
Level 3 (Scottish Division Two, Scottish Third Division) Runners-up 2000-01
Level 4 (Scottish Division Three) Runners-up 1997-98
Scottish Qualifying Cup [2] Winners 1903 Runners-up 1899, 1912
[edit] Club Records
Biggest win: 36-0 vs Bon Accord on September 12, 1885
Biggest defeat: 1-9 vs Celtic on August 25 1993
Biggest home attendance: 13,510 vs Rangers, on February 23 1952
[edit] Trivia
- Changed from black and white hoops to maroon in 1882
[edit] References
- ^ A day when Scottish football scorched the record books (HTML). Scotsman (2005). Retrieved on 9 December 2005.
- ^ The 36-0 team (HTML). Fraser Clyne (2003).
