Ailsa F.C.
Former association football club in Scotland
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Ailsa Football Club was a 19th-century association football club originally based at Pollokshields, in Glasgow.
| Full name | Ailsa Football Club | |
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| Founded | 1874 | |
| Dissolved | 1880 | |
| Ground | Buckingham Park | |
| President | A. Dunlop | |
| Secretary | David Dunlop | |
| Captain | W. Dyet[1] | |
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History
The club was founded in 1874 and took its name from the rock of Ailsa Craig, and its first reported matches come from the 1875–76 season.[2] It was one of the smaller Glasgow clubs, with a membership of 30 in 1876, more only than Shawfield and Union at the time.[3]
The club first entered the Scottish Cup in 1877–78, losing 2–0 to Lenzie.[4] Ailsa also lost in the first round the following year, 7–0 at Govan, although the North British Daily Mail report incorrectly referred to Ailsa as "Woodburn".[5]
In the 1879–80 Scottish Cup, the club reached the third round; after a walkover in the first, Ailsa beat Rosslyn 3–1,[6] but lost 6–0 at Clyde in the third, even though Clyde played with ten men for the second half.[7]
It was the club's last Cup fixture. Although it did enter the 1880–81 Scottish Cup, it scratched to the Good Templars Harmonic.[8]
A new Ailsa club, with no known link to the original, played in Anniesland in the 1892–93 season.[9][10]
Colours
The club's colours were pale blue and white 1-inch hooped shirts and stockings, with white knickerbockers.[11]