Galston F.C.

Galston

Full name

Galston Football Club

Founded

1891

Dissolved

1940

Ground

Portland Park, Galston

Home colours

Galston Football Club were a football club based in Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland.^[1] The club were members of the Scottish Football League Third Division and played at Portland Park.

History

Formed in 1891 to play in the new Ayrshire Football League, they lasted in that competition for its four-year run before joining the Ayrshire Football Combination. After three years without regular competition the club joined the North Ayrshire League, later appearing in the Scottish Football Combination and Scottish Football Union.^[2]

They eventually joined the Western league, which was incorporated by the Scottish Football League as its new Third Division for the 1923–24 season.^[2] Galston lasted the Division's three seasons, finishing 13th, 11th and 16th, although they resigned midway through the abandoned final season, unable to provide match guarantees.^[2] Indeed Galston had been so keen to increase the income from their meagre gates that they were censured by the League for charging entrance fees below the minimum agreed league level, then in turn blamed for accelerating the collapse of the Third Division by being the first to pull out from it in February 1926.^[3]

They proved one of the division's survivors and found themselves playing in first the West of Scotland Amateur league before being invited to join the Scottish Football Alliance from 1932 onward – a league made up of Senior Reserve teams and non-league sides which they had been invited to join to generate more interest in a competition many Senior clubs were considering abandoning due to a lack of public interest.^[2]

However, in 1938, Hamilton Academical proposed they and Beith be expelled and the league restricted to First Division clubs reserve teams only. Despite an impassioned plea by letter from club President James Abbott to every Scottish League side – pointing out they had brought Beith and Galston in to prop up the league in the first place – only Ayr United, Clyde, Kilmarnock, Queen's Park and St Mirren voted to retain them and both sides were duly expelled.^[2]

The Alliance was then abandoned and a new Reserve League set up, whereupon moves were made in 1940 for a new Scottish Football Alliance to be set up, among which the invitees were Galston and Vale of Leven, another side that had been damaged by the collapse of the Third Division and who had not played competitively since 1929 over a lack of any Senior league in which to play.^[2] However after only a month's worth of games the Second World War broke out and the league was put on indefinite hold. Without any Senior league to play in, and not interested in joining the Junior ranks, this marked the end of Galston FC.^[2]

Kit

During their relatively brief history Galston wore a number of different kits. They can be summarised thus:^[2]

Years	Shirt	Shorts	Stockings
1891–1892	Red and black hooped	White	Black
1892–1895	Blue, white and red hooped	Blue	Blue
1895–1897	Light blue	Blue	Blue
1897–1904	Red and black hooped	Blue	Blue
1904–1906	Pale blue	White	Blue with pale blue trim
1906–1908	Blue	White	Blue with white trim
1908–1910	Red and black hooped	White	Black with red trim
1910–1913	Black and white striped	White	Black with white trim
1913–1916	Black and white striped	Black	Black with white trim
1919–1920	Black and white hooped	Black	Black with white trim
1923–1924	Red and black hooped	White	Black with red trim
1924–1927	Pale blue	White	Blue
1927–1930	Blue	White	Blue with white trim
1930–1931	Red	White	Red with white trim
1935–1940	Maroon with white trim	White	Black with maroon trim

Full Scottish League record

Season	Position	Pl	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Notes
1923–24	13th	30	11	3	16	53	70	25	^[4]
1924–25	11th	30	10	6	14	39	70	26	^[5]
1925–26	16th	15	4	4	7	38	46	12	^[6]

KEY: Pl=Matches played; W=Matches won; D=Matches drawn or tied; L=Matches lost; F=Goals scored (for); A=Goals conceded (against); Pts=Points (2 awarded for a win, 1 for a draw)

Biggest win (Scottish Football League): 9–2 v Brechin City (away) 1923–24^[7]
Biggest defeat (Scottish Football League): 8–0 v Queen of the South (away) 1924–25^[5]

Scottish Cup record

During the course of their existence Galston qualified for the Scottish Cup eighteen times. They made the second round on seven occasions (1906–07, 1907–08, 1910–11, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1933–34 and 1935–36), going out in the first round eleven times (1894–95, 1899–1900, 1905–06, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1924–25, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1934–35, 1936–37, 1937–38).^[8]

References

↑ D. Pickering, The Cassell Soccer Companion, London: Cassell, 1995, p. 127
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Galston Historical Kits
↑ B. Crampsey, The First Hundred Years, Glasgow: Scottish Football League, 1990, p. 78
↑ Alex Graham, Football in Scotland: A Statistical Record 1873–2005, Soccer Books, 2005, p. 73
1 2 Graham, Football in Scotland, p. 76
↑ Graham, Football in Scotland, p. 80; Note, although Galston resigned after fifteen matches their record was not expunged as they were one of a number of teams not to fulfil all their fixtures
↑ Graham, Football in Scotland, p. 72
↑ Scotland – Cup Results 1873/74-1877/78 and 1889/90-1995/96

Defunct Scottish football clubs
Former Scottish Football League members	Abercorn Airdrieonians (1878) Armadale Arthurlie Ayr Ayr Parkhouse Bathgate Beith Bo'ness Broxburn United Cambuslang Clackmannan Clydebank (1914) Clydebank (1965) Cowlairs Dumbarton Harp Dundee Wanderers Dykehead Edinburgh City (1928) Galston Gretna Helensburgh Johnstone King's Park Leith Athletic Linthouse Lochgelly United Mid-Annandale Nithsdale Wanderers Northern Port Glasgow Athletic Renton Royal Albert Solway Star St Bernard's Third Lanark Thistle Vale of Leven
Former Highland League members	Caledonian Elgin Caledonian Inverness Celtic Inverness Citadel Inverness Thistle Inverness Union
Former East of Scotland League members	Edinburgh Athletic Tollcross United
Former South of Scotland League members	5th Kirkcudbrightshire RV Cronberry Eglinton Lanemark Mauchline Springbank Stranraer Athletic Tarff Rovers Whithorn
Other senior clubs	23rd Renfrew RV Aberdeen (1881) Airdrie Alexandra Athletic Ayr Academicals Ayr Thistle Barholm Rovers Barrhead Bellstane Birds Blythswood Bon Accord Bridge of Allan Bute Rangers Callander Campsie Clifton & Strathfillan Clydesdale Coylton Coila Crown Dumbreck Dundee East End Dundee Harp Dundee Our Boys Eastern Gairdoch Grahamston Grangemouth Granville Grasshoppers Inveraray Kilsyth Wanderers Kirkcaldy United Laurieston Lochgilphead Orion Oxford Redding Athletic Rovers Shawfield Amateurs Slamannan Southern Strathmore (Arbroath) Strathmore (Dundee) Thornliebank Vale of Bannock Vale of Leven Rovers (Alexandria) Vale of Leven Rovers (Glasgow) Victoria United West End Western
Other junior clubs	Arbroath SC Baillieston Juniors Bankfoot Athletic Blackburn Athletic Blantyre Celtic Burnbank Athletic Cambuslang Hibernian Duntocher Hibernian Falkirk Juniors Glenbuck Cherrypickers Inverkeithing United Maryhill Hibernians Parkhead Port Glasgow Athletic Juniors Shawfield Steelend Victoria Stonehouse Violet Strathclyde

Scottish Football League (1890–2013)
≫ Scottish Professional Football League (2013–present)
Divisions	Premier Division (1975–1998) First Division (1975–2013) Second Division (1975–2013) Third Division (1994–2013)
Cup competitions	League Cup Challenge Cup B Division Supplementary Cup Summer Cup Spring Cup
Clubs	Aberdeen Abercorn Airdrieonians (1878) Airdrieonians (2002) Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Annan Athletic Arbroath Armadale Arthurlie Ayr Ayr Parkhouse Ayr United Bathgate Beith Berwick Rangers Bo'ness Brechin City Broxburn United Cambuslang Celtic Clackmannan Clyde Clydebank (1914) Clydebank (1965) Cowdenbeath Cowlairs Dumbarton Dumbarton Harp Dundee Dundee United Dundee Wanderers Dunfermline Athletic Dykehead East Fife East Stirlingshire Edinburgh City (1928) Elgin City Falkirk Forfar Athletic Galston Greenock Morton Gretna Hamilton Academical Heart of Midlothian Helensburgh Hibernian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Johnstone Kilmarnock King's Park Leith Athletic Linthouse Livingston Lochgelly United Meadowbank Thistle Mid-Annandale Montrose Motherwell Nithsdale Wanderers Northern Partick Thistle Peebles Rovers Peterhead Port Glasgow Athletic Queen of the South Queen's Park Raith Rovers Rangers Renton Ross County Royal Albert Solway Star St Bernard's St Johnstone St Mirren Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion Stranraer Third Lanark Thistle Vale of Leven
Seasons	1890–91 1891–92 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13
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