Former association football club in Scotland
Football club
Ailsa Full name Ailsa Football Club Founded 1874 Dissolved 1880 Ground Buckingham Park President A. Dunlop Secretary David Dunlop Captain W. Dyet[1]
Ailsa Football Club was a 19th-century association football club originally based at Pollokshields , in Glasgow .
History
The club was founded in 1874 and took its name from the rock of Ailsa Craig , and its first reported matches come from the 1875–76 season.[2] It was one of the smaller Glasgow clubs, with a membership of 30 in 1876, more only than Shawfield and Union at the time.[3]
The club first entered the Scottish Cup in 1877–78 , losing 2–0 to Lenzie .[4] Ailsa also lost in the first round the following year , 7–0 at Govan , although the North British Daily Mail report incorrectly referred to Ailsa as "Woodburn".[5]
In the 1879–80 Scottish Cup , the club reached the third round; after a walkover in the first, Ailsa beat Rosslyn 3–1,[6] but lost 6–0 at Clyde in the third, even though Clyde played with ten men for the second half.[7]
It was the club's last Cup fixture. Although it did enter the 1880–81 Scottish Cup , it scratched to the Good Templars Harmonic .[8]
A new Ailsa club, with no known link to the original, played in Anniesland in the 1892–93 season.[9] [10]
Colours
The club's colours were pale blue and white 1-inch hooped shirts and stockings, with white knickerbockers.[11]
Ground
The club originally played at a private ground in Pollokshields.[12] In 1878 the club moved to Buckingham Park off Copeland Road, Govan .[13]
References
^ "Ailsa club". North British Daily Mail : 3. 13 August 1878.
^ "2nd Standard v Ailsa". Glasgow Herald : 7. 27 November 1876.
^ Dick, William (1876). Scottish Football Annual 1876–77 . Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
^ "Association Cup ties". North British Daily Mail : 6. 1 October 1877.
^ 30 September 1878, p. 7
^ "Scottish Association Ties". Glasgow Herald : 7. 22 October 1879.
^ "Association Cup ties". Glasgow Evening Post : 4. 3 November 1879.
^ Mathers, Stewart. "Season 1880–81" . Beautiful Dribbling Game . Retrieved 3 April 2023 .
^ "Western Thistle v Ailsa". Glasgow Herald : 3. 5 December 1892.
^ "Gourock v Ailsa Reserves (Glasgow)". Glasgow Herald : 10. 16 January 1893.
^ Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78 . Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
^ Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78 . Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
^ Dick, William (1878). Scottish Football Annual 1878–79 . Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 51.