List of East Stirlingshire F.C. records and statistics
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East Stirlingshire F.C. is a Scottish association football club from Falkirk. The club was founded in 1881 joined the Scottish Football League in 1900.
This list encompasses the major honours won by East Stirlingshire, records set by the club, its managers and its players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by East Stirlingshire players in international tournaments, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club. Attendance records at Firs Park, the club's home ground between 1921 and 2008, are also included in the list.
League
- Division Two (before 1975) and First Division (after 1975):
- Division Three (1923 to 1926), Division C (1946 to 1949) and Second Division (after 1975):
- Winners (1): 1947–48
- Runners-up (2): 1923–24, 1979–80
- Runners-up (3) : 2016–17 in Lowland Football League.
Player records
Most appearances
- Scottish Football League appearances from 1948 to 2013 only.
| # | Name | Nationality | Position[note 1] | East Stirlingshire career |
League appearances |
League goals | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gordon Russell | DF | 1986–2002 | 445 | 9 | [1] | |
| 2 | Derek Ure | MF | 2002-2011, 2016-2018 | 400 | 33 | ||
| 3 | Gordon Simpson | DF | 1967-1981 | 376 | 23 | ||
| 4 | Jim Meakin | MF | 1969–1985 | 272 | 32 | [2] | |
| 5 | Ian Rennie | DF | 1978–1988 | 272 | 24 | [3] | |
| 6 | Bobby McCulley | MF | 1972–1991 | 268 | 30 | [4] | |
| 7 | Arthur Hammill | MF | 1962–1971 | 266 | 39 | ||
| 8 | Tom Craig | DF | 1960–1968 | 259 | 0 | ||
| 9 | Charlie Kelly | GK | 1978–1990 | 222 | 1 | [5] | |
| 10 | Tom Donnelly | MF | 1971–1978 | 216 | 26 | ||
Goalscorers
- Most league goals in one season: 41, Andy Rodgers in the 2016–17 Lowland Football League.
International caps
- First capped player: Humphrey Jones for Wales against England on 23 February 1889.
- First capped player for Scotland: Archibald Ritchie against Wales on 21 March 1891.
- Most capped player: Humphrey Jones with 5 caps for Wales as an East Stirlingshire player.
- Most capped player for Scotland: David Alexander, 2 caps as an East Stirlingshire player.
Transfers
- Record transfer fee paid: £6,000 for Colin McKinnon from Falkirk, 1991.[citation needed]
- Record transfer fee received: £35,000 for Jim Docherty to Chelsea, 1978.