Dumfries F.C. (1869)

The club was one of the first clubs founded in Scotland; the only other Borders club older than the Dumfries club was the Annan (N.B.) club formed in December 1867.^[2]

Dumfries was founded in October 1869 as a rugby union club, but changed to association rules in 1870.^[3] The club however switched back to rugby union in 1877;^[4] the club's final reported association match was a 2–0 defeat to Maybole in October 1877.^[5]

The name was used by at least two other senior other clubs later, the next existing from 1889 to 1892, and the third merging into Queen of the South F.C.; and a more recent junior club now called Heston Rovers.