The Dalgety Bay Curling Club is a social curling club based in Dalgety Bay, Fife, Scotland. The club plays its games at the Kinross Curling Rink in Kinross and the Edinburgh Curling Club, part of the Murrayfield Ice Rink next to Murrayfield Stadium.
The Club plays within the West of Fife province of Area 7, as allocated by the Royal Caledonian Curling Club. However, membership is open to men and women from anywhere in Scotland.
The Dalgety Bay Curling Club was formed in 1980. [1]
Internally, the Club members compete for the Stoddart and Suttie Cups, in the autumn and winter respectively, as well as thirds, knock-out, pairs, and points competitions. Within the curling area and province, the Club fields teams for the Green Hotel League, the West of Fife Province League, and a number of local bonspiels and friendlies.
Fife is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. By custom it is widely held to have been one of the major Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland. A person from Fife is known as a Fifer. In older documents the county was very occasionally known by the anglicisation Fifeshire.
Dalgety Bay is a coastal town and parish in Fife, Scotland. According to Fife Council, the town is home to , making this the eighth-largest place in Fife. The civil parish has a population of 10,777.
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Murrayfield Stadium is a rugby stadium located in the Murrayfield area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It has a seating capacity of 67,144 making it the largest stadium in Scotland and the fifth largest in the United Kingdom.
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Murrayfield Ice Rink is a 3,800-seat multi-purpose arena in the Murrayfield area of Edinburgh, Scotland, adjacent to Murrayfield Stadium. It was built between 1938 and 1939 and is home to the Edinburgh Capitals ice hockey team and a seven-sheet curling rink which was constructed in the 1970s following the closure of Haymarket Ice Rink.
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