Meadowbank Thistle F.C.

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Meadowbank Thistle were a Scottish football club who were created at the start of the 1974–75 season after a previous club, Ferranti Thistle, relocated to the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh and joined the Football League. Ferranti were a works side, formed in 1943, who played in the East of Scotland League. Their apex came in the late 1980s. In the 1986–87 season, Meadowbank won the Scottish Division Two championship and won promotion to Division One. They finished Division One runners-up the following season but were denied promotion to the Premier Division due to a streamlining the size of the division.

The club suffered from the restructuring of the Scottish Football League for the 1994–95 season; having finished mid-table in Division One, it was relegated to Division Two because the league was scrapping its format of two 12-club and one 14-club divisions in favour of four divisions of 10 clubs. Meadowbank suffered a second successive relegation in 1994–95, finishing second from bottom in Division Two, but then changed name to Livingston F.C., following relocation to a new stadium in the new town of Livingston.