Inverness City F.C.

Inverness City
Full name Inverness City Football Club
Nickname(s) City
Founded 2006
Ground Lister Park
Bught Park, Inverness[1]
Capacity 1000[2]
Chairman Alastair Wardhaugh
Manager Jordan MacDonald
League SJFA North Superleague
2013–14 SJFA North Division One (West), 1st (promoted)

Inverness City Football Club are a Scottish football club from Inverness. Their home strip is white and black and the away strip is red and white.

The club entered the North Caledonian Football League in the 200607 season and originally played their games at Ferry Brae Park in North Kessock and won their first trophy when they beat Golspie Sutherland in the Jock Mackay Memorial Cup. They also won the Football Times Cup when again they triumphed over Golspie 32. In Season 200708 they again got through to the Jock Mackay Memorial Cup Final but were beaten this time on penalties by Golspie Sutherland.

For Season 200809 Inverness City successfully applied to the Scottish Junior Football Association for membership and will compete in the North Region Division 2. They finally moved into Inverness where their home games will be played at the Northern Meeting Park, They are thus also eligible to play in the Scottish Junior Cup. The Meeting Park venue has been the cause of some controversy due to its use by a cricket side during the summer months.

In their inaugural season, Inverness City won the Scotscoup Division 2 Junior League and the Elginshire Cup where they defeated Bishopmill 3-0 in the final to complete a historic double.

For the past three seasons, City have qualified for promotion to the North Superleague but have been denied entry, owing to the club not having access to the Northern Meeting Park for the full duration of the playing season. The club are currently trying to secure a playing facility at The Bught in Inverness that will enable the club to obtain promotion.[3]

Honours

Records

Scottish Junior Cup

League records

Player records

Youth Football

The club places great emphasis on its role as a social focus for the community, and part of this role is to offer the chance to play football to all.

Inverness City commenced their youth programme in January 2010 and were accepted into the Moray League for the second half of the 2009/10 season at Under 13's.

In their first ever game Inverness City U13's beat Strathspey U13's 7-1 with goals from Rhys Taylor, David Robertson, Jordan Ross, Calum MacLean, Ryan Nelson, Derry Ferguson and Robert MacDowell.

References

  1. Linton, Graham (6 August 2013). "City prepare to open new ground". Inverness Courier (Inverness).
  2. "Inverness City". Non League Scotland. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  3. "Pitch headache puts future of Inverness City champs in doubt". North Star (Inverness). 9 May 2011.

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