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Western Football Club was a 19th-century football club based in Partick, in Glasgow.

Western
Full nameWestern Football Club
Founded1873
Dissolved1878
GroundRegent's Park
Home colours

History


Match report for Western v Rovers, Glasgow Herald, 25 November 1873
Match report for Western v Rovers, Glasgow Herald, 25 November 1873

The club was formed out of a cricket club[1] and was one of the original 16 teams to participate in the inaugural season of the Scottish Cup. It seems to have had some wealthy benefactors, as the club contributed £4 to the cost of the Cup, £1 more than the well-backed Alexandra Athletic F.C. and only behind Queen's Park and Clydesdale, both of whom had large memberships.[2]

The club was also active in the administration of the game, the club's R. M. Liddell acting as the Scottish Football Association treasurer in its early days.[3]

Inn the first round of the first competition, in the 1873-74 season, the club lost 1–0 to eventual semi-finalists Blythswood.

The only ties the club won came in 1875–76, beating Caledonian (of Kelvinbridge), Sandyford, and Helensburgh,[4] to reach the quarter-finals, which, that year, was the final seven. The club faced the 3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteers, and, although Western had been good enough to draw with the Volunteers in 1874,[5] the Cup tie was an easy win for the Volunteers. This was put down in part to the Western club losing several first team players for the tie, despite its high profile, and having to rely on several reserves, who had "an almost total lack of knowledge of the passing game".[6]

The following season, rather than face Govan F.C., the club withdrew from the competition, suggesting that the club was struggling in the face of so many other clubs emerging. In 1877, the club faced a claim of £465 10/ in breach of contract, for the building of a club house on the cricket pitch,[7] and that seems to have hastened the end of the club (both cricket and football), as no more is heard of either, and the club was definitely dissolved by 1878.[8]


Colours


The club's colours were black and white.[9]


Grounds


The club originally played at Regent's Park in Partick,[10] before moving in 1874 to Holyrood Park.[11]


References


  1. "Western Cricket Club". North British Daily Mail: 4. 15 March 1873.
  2. "Organising the Game in Scotland". The Vale of Leven. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  3. "Football". North British Daily Mail: 6. 7 September 1874.
  4. The original club, not the Helensburgh F.C. which later played in the Scottish League
  5. "3d Lanark v Western". Glasgow Herald: 7. 20 January 1874.
  6. "Football in the Glasgow district". Glasgow Herald: 7. 20 December 1875.
  7. "A Cricket Club Case". North British Daily Mail: 2. 23 March 1877.
  8. "Club Directory". Scottish Football Historical Results Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  9. "Club Directory". Scottish Football Historical Results Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  10. "Western v Rovers". Glasgow Herald. 25 November 1873.
  11. "Local football fixtures". North British Daily Mail: 7. 15 December 1874.





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[de] FC Western

Der Football Club Western war ein schottischer Fußballverein aus Glasgow, der von 1873 bis 1878 bestand.
- [en] Western F.C.


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