St Andrew's F.C. (Kilmarnock)

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St Andrew's
Full nameSt Andrew's Football Club
Founded1873
Dissolved1877
GroundHolehouse Road
CaptainJ. Lyle, [1] W. Millar [2]

St Andrew's Football Club was an association football club from Kilmarnock, Ayrshire in Scotland.

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History

The club was founded in 1873. [3]

St Andrew's first entered the Scottish Cup in 1876–77, and was drawn at home to Ayr Eglinton in the first round. [4] The game ended in a 1–1 draw. [5]

The replay was played on 7 October at the neutral Robbsland Park (the ground of Ayr Thistle F.C.) and lasted only an hour, St Andrew's winning 1–0. [6]

In the second round, the club was drawn to play at the Portland club, on the latter's ground at Nursery Park, on Holehouse Road. The home side won 2–0 in a "one-sided game". [7]

The club played matches regularly until the end of the season, the final one advertised being against Rosevale of Strathbungo on 14 April 1877, [8] but the club appears to have wound up before the start of the 1877–78 season, as it scratched from its first round Scottish Cup tie with Ayr Thistle, [9] and did not enter the new Ayrshire Cup.

Colours

The club's colours were black and red hoops. [10]

Ground

The club probably started out playing on public parks, but it had a new ground at Holehouse Road for the 1875–76 season, opening it with a match against a Kilmarnock F.C. scratch XI. [11] It moved to Grange Park in time for its Cup tie with Ayr Eglinton. [12]

References

  1. ↑ "Portland v St Andrews". Kilmarnock Standard: 3. 3 April 1875.
  2. ↑ "Football - Cup ties". Kilmarnock Standard: 3. 7 October 1876.
  3. ↑ "Club Directory". Scottish Football Historical Results Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Grand Football Match". Kilmarnock Standard: 2. 30 September 1876.
  5. ↑ "Football - Cup ties". Kilmarnock Standard: 3. 7 October 1876.
  6. ↑ Mathers, Stewart. "Season 1876-77". Beautiful Dribbling Game. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  7. ↑ "Kilmarnock Portland v Kilmarnock St Andrew's". North British Daily Mail: 3. 23 October 1876.
  8. ↑ "Football match". Kilmarnock Standard: 1. 14 April 1877.
  9. ↑ "Scottish Football Association". North British Daily Mail: 4. 12 September 1877.
  10. ↑ "Club Directory". Scottish Football Historical Results Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  11. ↑ "St Andrew's (Kilmarnock) v Kilmarnock (scratch)". North British Daily Mail: 3. 18 October 1875.
  12. ↑ "Grand Football Match". Kilmarnock Standard: 2. 30 September 1876.
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