| Full name | Lugar Boswell Thistle Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Jaggy Bunnets | ||
| Founded | 1878 (as Lugar Boswell) | ||
| Ground | Rosebank Park, Lugar (Capacity: 2,000) |
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| Manager | Billy McKie | ||
| League | SJFA Ayrshire District League | ||
| 2010–11 | 7th | ||
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Lugar Boswell Thistle Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in the village of Lugar, near Cumnock, Ayrshire. Members of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they currently play in the Ayrshire District League. Their home ground since 1882 is Rosebank Park, and they wear maroon and light blue strips.
Formed in 1876 as Lugar Boswell, the club were originally a Senior side playing such currently distinguished names as Rangers [1] and Heart of Midlothian. Their most famous scoreline of this era was a 10–2 victory over Hearts in March 1883 which remains the Edinburgh club's record defeat.[2] The club then flitted between various Senior, Junior and even Juvenile leagues up to the Second World War. On reforming after hostilities, the club added the suffix Thistle and settled in Ayrshire Junior football.
The Jaggy Bunnets as they are nicknamed enjoyed a successful period in the 1950s, culminating in a Scottish Junior Cup final appearance in 1956. Thistle lost 4–1 to Petershill at Hampden Park in front of a crowd of 64,702.[3] The current population of Lugar is 221.[4]
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