Glenrothes F.C.

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Glenrothes
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Full nameGlenrothes Football Club
Nickname(s)The Glens
Founded1964
GroundWarout Stadium,
Warout Road,
Glenrothes
Capacity5,000 (730 seated)
Co-Managers John Martin, Kevin Smith
League East of Scotland League Premier Division
2022–23 East of Scotland League First Division, 4th of 16 (promoted)
Website Club website

Glenrothes Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the new town of Glenrothes, Fife. The club play home games at Warout Stadium, and currently compete in the East of Scotland League Premier Division, having moved from the junior leagues in 2019. [1] Their strip colours are red with white trim.

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History

Formed in May 1964 with assistance from the Glenrothes Development Corporation, the "Glens" played their first game against near neighbours Thornton Hibs in August the same year at their original Dovecot Park ground. [2] A crowd of 5,400 attended a Scottish Junior Cup quarter-final tie against Shotts Bon Accord here during Glenrothes' run to the final in 1968. [3]

The club moved to the purpose built Warout Stadium in 1971, one of the larger grounds in junior football, with room for around 5,000 spectators, 730 of whom can be seated. The record attendance for this ground is 5,600 against Cambuslang Rangers in another Junior Cup quarter-final tie in 1974. [2]

Glenrothes' greatest success as a club came in 1975 when they won the Scottish Junior Cup, defeating Rutherglen Glencairn 1–0, in front of a crowd of 17,776 at Hampden Park. [2] Glens had also been runners-up in 1968, losing after a replay to Johnstone Burgh with a combined attendance of 50,000 over the two ties, an impressive achievement given that they had only been formed a mere four years beforehand. [3]

The club were members of the Fife Junior League, before competing in the East Region of which they, along with all Fife junior clubs became a part of in 2002. They were relegated from the East Super League (the top division in their region) in season 2005–06, but they immediately returned after clinching the 2006–07 Premier League title and remained in the top tier for three seasons.

In March 2019, Glenrothes announced they had applied for membership of the East of Scotland Football League beginning in the 2019–20 season, [4] and were later accepted into the league. As part of the club's move to senior football, its name was changed to reflect this, by dropping the term "Junior". [1]

Current Players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Callum Kinnes
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Lea Schiavone
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Conor Schiavone
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Lewis Grierson
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Blair Smart
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Stuart Cargill
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Charlie Denton
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Ryan McKinnes
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO James Collins
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Ian McManus
— GK Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Adam Shaw
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Reece Brown
No.Pos.NationPlayer
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Brandon Connor
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Craig Wallace
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Michael Gibb
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Cammy Lumsden
— MF Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Shaun Leishman
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Greame Walker
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Fionn McLeod Kay
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Kyle Bell
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Dylan Honeyman
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Reece Brown
—Flag of Scotland.svg  SCO Jay Bridgeford

Honours

Scottish Junior Cup

SJFA East Region Premier League

Other Honours

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References

  1. 1 2 "Club announcement 10/6/19". Twitter. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Elder, Matthew (4 June 2014). "Football fun day marks 50 years of Glenrothes Juniors". Fife Today. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 "The History of the Glens". Glenrothes JFC. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Glenrothes teams apply to join East of Scotland League". Fife Free Press. Retrieved 11 June 2019.

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