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Full name | Rothes Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Speysiders | ||
Founded | 1907 as Rothes Victoria 1938 as Rothes | ||
Ground | Mackessack Park, Rothes | ||
Capacity | 2,700 (184 seated) | ||
Chairman | Iain Paul | ||
Manager | Ross Jack | ||
League | Highland League | ||
2022–23 | Highland League, 9th of 18 | ||
Rothes Football Club is a senior football club who play in the Highland Football League. They were originally founded in 1907 as a Junior club, Rothes Victoria, and turned Senior on 4 May 1938 as Rothes FC, obtaining a place in the Highland League. They play at Mackessack Park in Rothes, a small town near Elgin in Moray. 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. Mackessack Park is named after one Douglas Mackessack, a local laird and whisky magnate and an early benefactor of the club.
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. [1]
1958–59
2019–20
1958–59, 1978–79, 2021–22
1949–50
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