| Full name | Penicuik Athletic Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Cuikie | ||
| Founded | 1888 | ||
| Ground | Penicuik Park Carlops Road Penicuik (Capacity: 1500) |
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| Chairman | John Fraser | ||
| Co-managers | Craig Meikle and Brian Ryrie | ||
| League | SJFA East Region Premier League | ||
| 2010–11 | 5th | ||
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Penicuik Athletic Football Club are a Scottish junior football club. They were formed in 1888 and are based in Penicuik. Penicuik Park is ten miles south west of Edinburgh on the A702. The club is currently playing in the Premier League of the Scottish Junior Football Association's East Region at their home ground, Penicuik Park.
They signed ex-Gretna striker Martin Cameron for the start of season 2006–07. He was subsequently transferred to Bonnyrigg Rose in August 2009. Penicuik Athletic attract a big crowd on matchday, usually a Saturday, although crowds have dipped in the last season or so with the average crowd now about 120.
Penicuik turned Junior in 1951 with the supporter's club buying Eastfield Park from the National Coal Board and built a new pavilion. The chairman at the time, Mr David Masson and Jimmy Ketchen, were two prominent figures in the club. Their manager was Dick Walker and coach Harry Verth.
Penicuik won their first silverware in 1949–50 season (before turning Junior) winning the Border Cup.
Penicuik Athletic's biggest achievement is undoubtedly reaching the Scottish Junior Cup Final in 1970 at Hampden Park, Glasgow. Penicuik's opponents on Saturday May 16, 1970 was Blantyre Victoria who they drew with 1–1, only to be defeated in the replay the following Tuesday night 1–0.
Penicuik beat seven Junior clubs based in the West of Scotland to arrive at the final. Here is how it was done in 1970:
The team on Cup Final day: McDermott, Thorburn, McCabe, Hume, McGarry, Hogg, Robertson, Wallace, Stenhouse, Buchan, Murphy, Sub - Reeves.
After a long spell playing in the Junior leagues, Penicuik Athletic disbanded in the late '80s with a supermarket being built on the site of Eastfield Park. However they reformed in 2002 playing at their new home Penicuik Park in the centre of the town. While playing in the Lothian League Division 2, in 2004 they won the Supplementary Cup against Whitburn at Blackburn Utd's Murrayfield Park. The manager that night was Willie McGinley.
The team that night: Bald, McDermott, Ure, Porteous, Blair, Montgomery, Dick, Hancok, Lindsay (Banks 73), Auld (Gibb 73), Forbes (Hope 73), Subs not used - Rennie, McLeod
Only Bald, of that team, remains at the club. Manager McGinley stood down after 6 years in charge in May 2008 and was replaced by his assistant Stuart 'Snowy' McKean. Following a run of poor results McKean resigned in December 2009 and was replaced by the duo of current club captain Craig Meikle and former player Brian Ryrie.
In 2007 Penicuik fought their way out of Division 1 into the newly formed Premier League set up for the 2006–07 season where they remain today.
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