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Montrose Roselea Junior Football Club are a Scottish Junior football club based in the town of Montrose, Angus. The are members of the Scottish Junior Football Association and currently play in the North Region Junior Football League Premier Division in the sixth tier of football in Scotland.

Montrose Roselea

Full name	Montrose Roselea Junior Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Lea
Founded	1930; 92 years ago (1930)
Ground	Links Park Montrose
Capacity	4,936[1]
Chairman	Roy Gill
Manager	Eric Watson
League	SJFA North Premier Division
2021–22	SJFA North Superleague, 7th of 14
Home colours Away colours

Club history

The club originally played junior football in the Montrose Montrose & Kincardineshire Junior League, winning the league in their first two seasons. In their early years, crowds of around 2,000 were typical at Links Park for Roselea matches.

They were then members of the Angus League and Tayside Region League, before competing in the new SJFA East Region which they, along with all other Tayside junior clubs became a part in 2002.

Playing second fiddle to the senior Montrose, success has been sparse during their years of existence however in recent years the success has been beyond a club of its size.

Roselea’s best performance in the Scottish Junior Cup was in 1998–99. In the fifth round the Lea beat fellow Angus side, Forfar West End, in a replay at Strathmore Park to secure a place in the quarter-finals for the first time in their history. They were then defeated 7-1 away to eventual runners-up Kelty Hearts in the quarter-final tie. Their best cup-run since then was in 2008-09, when the club reached the fifth round where they drew 0-0 with Petershill at home before losing the replay 2-1 at ‘The Peasy’.[2]

Roselea traditionally played their home games at Broomfield Park, a relatively undeveloped facility in the north of the town which has room for around 1,800 spectators.

The club applied to move from the SJFA East Region to join the North Region, and this was accepted for the beginning of season 2016–17. The Lea secured promotion to the North Superleague in their first season in the SJFA North Region after finishing as North Division One (West) runners-up and then winning their Superleague play-off tie against 5-0 against Buckie Rovers at Colony Park.[3]

For the 2018–19 season, Roselea reached an agreement to share Montrose's Links Park stadium, with a view towards a longer-term arrangement.[4] Broomfield Park is still used on occasions where there are schedule conflicts at Links Park.

Historically the club played in a green home strip but since the 2019-20 season they have played in the royal blue colours of the senior Montrose side.[5] Green is now worn as the clubs away colours.

Honours

• Tayside Division One: 2001–02
• East Region North Division: 2008–09
• Montrose & Kincardineshire Junior League: 1936-37, 1937-38
• Angus Junior League: 1947–48, 1949–50
• Barrie Cup: 1957-58
• Intersport Cup: 1996–97
• Division One Rosebank Car Centre Cup: 1998–99
• Arbroath & District Cup: 1962–63
• DJ Laing Homes League Cup: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10
• Division One (Downfield SC Cup): 1993–94
• Express Cup: 1936-37
• Kinnabar Cup: 1937-38
• Brechin Rosebowl: 1932–33, 1937–38
• G.A Cup: 2007–08

Club records

Biggest win: 16-0 v Fochabers, 14 Jan 2017, ND1 West[6] - (Reoch  8', 45'; Bailey  11', 22'; Hester  14', 29', 32', 59', 75', 81', 86’; McLeod  62', 70', 73', 87', 89')[7]

Biggest defeat:[lower-alpha 1] 8-1 v Hermes, 4 Sept 2021, North Superleague[8]

Largest home attendance: 4,000 v Banks O' Dee at Links Park, 5 May 1947, Friendly.[9]

Notable players

• Ernie Copland
• Gordon Smith

References

Notes

External links

• Montrose Roselea website

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