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Former association football club in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mauchline Football Club was a senior football team based in the small town of Mauchline in East Ayrshire.
Full name | Mauchline Football Club | |
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Nickname(s) | the Boxmakers[1] | |
Founded | 1873 | |
Dissolved | 1897 | |
Ground | Connel Park, Mauchline | |
Secretary | William Murray, John Paton | |
League | Ayrshire Football League (1891–1892) South of Scotland Football League (1892–1993) | |
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The club was founded in 1873. Its first match against another side was in February 1874, against Ayr Academy.[2]
Mauchline was an original member of two ill-fated leagues who survived for just one season, The Ayrshire Football League for the 1891–92 season and the original South of Scotland Football League in 1892–93.[3]
However, Mauchline were better known as a cup team, appearing in every Scottish Cup from 1875–76 to 1885–86, and often reaching the later rounds.
In 1877–78 they reached the quarter-finals only to lose 1–3 away to the eventual winners, Renton.[4]
In the same season, the club won the Ayrshire Cup for the only time, beating Portland 4–2 in the final, played at Holm Quarry, the home ground for a number of other Kilmarnock sides. The match proved to be a test between the Portland's wider wing play and Mauchline's more compact forward line; Portland's opening goal was a Goldie header from a Sinclair corner, and the club went 2–1 up after Mauchline's back Wilson impeded his goalkeeper, but two goals in the last 20 minutes won the trophy for Mauchline.[5] Portland had a measure of revenge in 1878–79 by winning the Burns Cup, an invitational tournament to raise funds for a statue to Robert Burns, coming from behind to beat Mauchline 2–1 in the final - the first time the Portland had beaten the Mauchline.[6]
The senior club dissolved in 1897 but adopted junior status as Mauchline Thistle Football Club, which itself disbanded just seven years later.
A second Mauchline Football Club was founded in 1911 and existed until 1922 although all competitions were suspended throughout the First World War, 1914–1918.[7]
The club played in blue and white hooped jerseys and hose, with white knickers.[8]
The club's ground at Connel Park was a 3-minute walk from the Mauchline railway station.[9] As late as 1886 the club did not have facilities on the ground, teams having to change at the Loudoun Hotel.[10]
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