Airdrie United F.C.
Airdrieonians FC ( officially: Airdrieonians Football Club ) - also known as The Diamonds - is a Scottish football club based in Airdrie, located in North Lanarkshire. The club currently plays in the Scottish League One, the third highest Scottish league.
History
History of the (old ) Airdrieonians FC
The " Airdrieonians FC" was originally launched under the official name " Excelsior Football Club ' in North Lanarkshire in 1878 and three years later took the name" Airdrieonians Football Club " on. Although the club waited 16 years after its inception, with a participation in the Scottish Football League, they created in 1886 as a regional selection with a 10:2 victory for the heaviest home defeat in the history of Glasgow Rangers. After accession to the Scottish League operation of the club in 1903 was promoted to the first division in which the club was to play for 33 years in a row.
His most successful period witnessed the club in the 1920s, when he won the 1923-1926 four runner-up in series. In the Scottish Cup, the club also drew a four-time to the final and was able in 1924 to win the title even after a 2-0 playoff victory against Hibernian. The Airdrieonians FC stood several times in the semi-finals of the Scottish League Cup and also won in the 1970/71 season in the first round of the Texaco Cup on penalties against Nottingham Forest; in the subsequent year followed even a playoff participation against Derby County. In the 1992/93 season Airdrieonians took - after the previous finals in the Scottish Cup ( where they were Rangers subject ) - on the European Cup Winners' Cup in part and lost in the first round against the Czech representatives Sparta Prague.
On 1 May 2002, the club broke up because of the incurred indebtedness. The last game against Ayr United had thereby be canceled after supporters of the club had stormed the square and you will damage a goal post.
History of Clydebank FC
The first birth of Clydebank FC took place in 1914. The club then played until its dissolution in 1931 in the Scottish Football League.
In 1965 the club was re-established after previous "Junior " back in " senior status " after being taken over by the " East Stirlingshire Football Club " a year and adopted after a merger, the name " ES Clydebank Football Club " had. However, this association should not be open for long and supporters of East Stirlingshire erwirkten in court that the merger will be reversed. After a year in the "Combined Reserve League " Clydebank returned in 1966 back into the Football League back.
By the year 2002, the society's debts totaled six million pounds and the club had to declare bankruptcy.
After the takeover of the club by Airdrie United, the club was formed in the 2002/03 season new with the help of his followers, and received from Airdrie the commitment of the club's management for the use of the original naming rights to " Clydebank Football Club ". In 2003, the new Clydebank FC then joined the " Central District League ( Second Division ) " in the " Scottish Junior Football Association " at.
Establishment of Airdrie United
The association " Airdrie United" was established in May 2002 from the bankrupt club " Airdrieonians FC", which had to be solved for the runner-up in the First Division with a debt of nearly three million pounds. The withdrawal of Airdrieonians leaving a free space in the fourth division Third Division, but the Scottish League Association Scottish Football League ( SFL ) took for the FC Gretna - and not the new club " Airdrie United" - on. The following month, however, took over Airdries club chairman Jim Ballantyne the financially ailing third division " FC Clydebank " and allowed so that " Airdrie United" could take its place. Formally, the SFL had approved so that the FC Clydebank has moved to Airdrie and had changed its name to Airdrie United.
Airdrie United completed its home games at the stadium " New Broomfield ," as it is called by supporters, with the official name " Shyberry Excelsior Stadium " is. The home ground of the association wound Airdrieonians FC was sold recently at the British retail chain Safeway to build at this point a supermarket. The old stadium was demolished several years before the granting of planning permission for the new stadium, which meant that the money raised was wasted from the sale rather than to invest in the construction of the new stadium in time. This circumstance and the Bureau's decision to build a stadium for 10,000 spectators and to fulfill the criteria of the Scottish Premier League ( SPL), then attended at the club, the visited usually less than 2,000 spectators, for an increasingly greater financial gap. Ironically, the stadium conditions of the SPL are now - formulated as " 6,000 spectators comprehensive pure -seater stadium " - were significantly lower, which would then probably sufficient for survival of the club under a lower pressure of the stadium financing the new building.
Airdrie United took over the club colors levels and the resulting nickname " The Diamonds ", which itself was built on the shirt. This includes a white jersey with a red, diamond-shaped strips arranged, where the term "diamond " can mean in English both " diamond " and " hash" (or " rhombus ").
First success could Airdrie United in the 2003/04 season by reaching the final of the Bell Challenge Cup - a trophy competition in which all clubs in the Scottish Football League ( ie without the SPL clubs) - celebrate, but you 0-2 the team from Inverness Caledonian Thistle subject. Far more important, however, was the rise this season, with more than 5,000 spectators attended temporarily the games.
The club established itself then in the second division and could more than meet with the fifth place in 2005, the expectations. Although Airdrie United then gave a number of key players, the club moved - contrary to many predictions by experts - far above the relegation zone and finished the season 2005/ 06 to a respectable sixth position from. 2006/ 07, the Diamonds were penultimate and descended into the Second Division. In the 2007 /08 season Airdrie finished second, but different in the playoffs against Clyde from. After the financial collapse of Gretna and the subsequent expulsion from the Scottish Football League Airdrie, however, was as substitutes awarded yet a place in the First Division.
2008/ 09 the club once again took the last place of the First Division and was defeated in the playoffs Ayr United. After a 2-0 lead after the first half, was still playful in the first leg - the match ended 2-2 - lost the final game 0-1. Airdrie United would have had to take up once again the passage in the Second Division, which could be prevented by the relegation of FC Livingston.
Renamed Airdrieonians FC
In June 2013 it was renamed the Airdrieonians FC.
Achievements
- Scottish League Challenge Cup: 2008/ 09
Well-known former players of FC Airdrieonians
Pictures of Airdrie United F.C.
