Rothes F.C.

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Rothes
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Full nameRothes Football Club
Nickname(s)The Speysiders
Founded1907 as Rothes Victoria
1938 as Rothes
GroundMackessack Park, Rothes
Capacity1,731 (167 seated) [1]
ChairmanIain Paul
Manager Richard Hastings
League Highland League
2023–24 Highland League, 11th of 18
Website Club website

Rothes Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the town of Rothes in Moray. The club was originally founded in 1907 as a Junior club, Rothes Victoria, before turning senior on 4 May 1938 as Rothes FC, obtaining a place in the Highland Football League.

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They play in tangerine shirts, colours they inherited from Dundee United after purchasing the floodlights from Tannadice Park.

Rothes have won the Highland League once, in the 1958–59 season. In 2020, The Speysiders won their first honours in 41 years, defeating Buckie Thistle 2–1 in the Highland League Cup final to win the trophy for the first time. [2]

The club's Mackessack Park ground is named after one Douglas Mackessack, a local laird and whisky magnate and an early benefactor of the club.

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References

  1. "Club info - Rothes Football Club". www.rothesfc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  2. Clark, Jonathan (31 October 2020). "Rothes 2 Buckie Thistle 1: Dramatic last-gasp winner seals Speysiders' maiden Highland League Cup success". northern-scot.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2020.

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