Lochee Harp F.C.

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Lochee Harp Football Club are a junior football club based in the Lochee area of the city of Dundee in Scotland. Formed in 1904 and nicknamed "the Harp", they play their home games at Beechwood Park, which has room for around 1,800 spectators. Their strip (uniform) colours are green and white.

Lochee Harp were formed among the Irish community in Lochee, and derive their history as an Irish Catholic football club. They were formed in much the same way as Glasgow Celtic, by local priests and church members to alleviate the boredom of the workers and provide some recreation. Dundee United F.C. have much the same origins, having been formed as Dundee Hibernian, and there was another Irish based club in the Lochee area as well, Lochee Emmett F.C., named after the Irish patriot Robert Emmett.

They were members of the Tayside Junior League, but are presently competing in the East region of Scottish junior football which they, along will all Tayside junior clubs became a part in 2002.

Lochee Harp were formerly a hugely successful junior team, winning the Dundee Junior League in their first season of existence, but have found such success more hard to come by in recent years. Indeed, they are not even the top club in the Lochee area at present, playing a division below rivals and neighbours Lochee United F.C.. They have been run for over 25 years by the notorious Kelly brothers, Jimmy, Jack, Albert, Ger and Harry, who has taken a back seat recently as he cant get out his chair. All the brothers played for the Harp at various times

[edit] Honours

Scottish Junior Cup runners-up: 1953-54
Tayside Premier Division winners: 1984-85, 1985-86
Tayside Division One winners: 1997-98
Dundee Junior League winners: 1904-05, 1906-07, 1910-11, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1926-27, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1937-38, 1948-49, 1949-50, 1953-54, 1954-55, 1958-59, 1960-61, 1962-63
Currie (Findlay & Co) Cup: 1980-81, 1985-86
Division One (Downfield SC) Cup: 1997-98
Tayside Drybrough Cup: 1982-83
Tayside Regional Cup: 1980-81, 1985-86
Courier Cup: 1927-28, 1928-29, 1933-34, 1938-39, 1942-43, 1943-44, 1948-49, 1950-51, 1952-53, 1954-55, 1958-59, 1962-63, 1965-66, 1966-67
Cream of the Barley Cup: 1986-87

[edit] Notable former players

Scottish Junior Football Association
East Premier League: 2006-07
Armadale Thistle \| Arniston Rangers \| Dundee North End \| Glenrothes \| Kelty Hearts \| Lochee Harp \| Montrose Roselea \| Musselburgh Athletic \| Penicuik Athletic \| Rosyth Recreation \| Scone Thistle \| St. Andrews United

SJFA Level 2
Promotion to: East Super League
Relegation to: East Region North, Central or South