Aberdour Shinty Club
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Aberdour Shinty Club is a shinty club which plays in Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. It is the only senior Shinty Club in Fife and was founded in 2001. It currently competes in the Marine Harvest South Division 2, which it entered for the first time in 2006.
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[edit] Colours
Home: Black Tops, Shorts and Socks
Away: White Top, Black Shorts, Black Socks
[edit] Stadium
Silver Sands, Aberdour
[edit] History
Although Fife has never been a shinty hotbed, the sport was played in Glenrothes in the 1970s and in Dunfermline in the early 1990s and St. Andrews University has had a team made up of students since the late 1960s. However, Aberdour are the first club to take a longer term view of the sport in the Kingdom and have developed a strong junior setup to support the development of the senior team.
They were established in 2001 as a junior side by local Sports Science student Lisa Norman as part of a project at University and within a few years had successful teams playing at all levels from Under 10 to Under 17. 2005 saw their first entry into senior competition, playing in the Bullough Cup. In 2006 the decision was taken to make the step up to full time competition, entering the senior leagues for the first time, although this has been a challenge for the club with such a young squad. The club's achievements in recent years have been rewarded with recognition of the most talented young players in the international set-up as well as various awards from local organisations.
The club finished bottom of South Division Two in its first season, 2006.
[edit] Nickname
"The 'Dour"
