Dumfries Football Club
Full nameDumfries
Founded1869
Dissolved1877
GroundDock Park
SecretaryWilliam Kennedy[1]

Dumfries Football Club was an association football club from Dumfries, Scotland.

History

The club was one of the first clubs founded in Scotland; the only other Borders club older than the Dumfries club was the Annan (N.B.) club formed in December 1867.[2]

Dumfries was founded in October 1869 as a rugby union club, but changed to association rules in 1870.[3] The club however switched back to rugby union in 1877;[4] the club's final reported association match was a 2–0 defeat to Maybole in October 1877.[5]

The name was used by at least two other senior other clubs later, the next existing from 1889 to 1892, and the third merging into Queen of the South F.C.; and a more recent junior club now called Heston Rovers.

Colours

The club's colours were red, white, and blue, probably in hoops as that was the dominant style of the day.[6]

Ground

The club played at Dock Park, five minutes from the railway station.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Alcock, Charles (1872). Football Yearbook. p. 71.
  2. ↑ Lillywhite, John (1868). Football Annual. p. 81.
  3. ↑ Alcock, Charles (1870). Football Annual. p. 60.
  4. ↑ "Club Directory". Scottish Football Historical Results Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "Football". Glasgow Herald: 7. 29 October 1877.
  6. ↑ Charles Alcock yearbooks 1870-72
  7. ↑ Charles Alcock yearbooks 1870-72
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