Brechin City F.C.
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| Full name | Brechin City Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | The Hedgemen, City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1906 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Glebe Park, Brechin, Scotland (Capacity 3,960) |
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| Chairman |  Ken Ferguson |
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| Manager |  Michael O'Neill |
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| League | Second Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006-07 | Second Division, 4th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brechin City Football Club is a Scottish football team based in Brechin, Angus. They are members of the Scottish Football League and play in the Second Division in the 2007/08 season.
They were founded in 1906 through the amalgamation of two local junior sides - Brechin Harp and Brechin Hearts - when a deputation from the Forfarshire Football Association met local sportsmen in the Temperance Hall in City Road, and after some persuasion, it was decided that a Senior club was advisable. The team was admitted to the Scottish league in 1923. Brechin currently play at Glebe Park, which has a capacity of 3,960 (1,519 seated) and is famous for the hedge that runs alongside one side of the pitch.
David Will, a former Chairman of the club, was one of the Vice-Presidents of FIFA.
Last year the club celebrated their centenary year and played a centenary match against Coca Cola Championship side Ipswich Town at Glebe Park.
Last season Brechin City made the Second Division Playoffs, where they lost 6-1 on aggregate to Airdrie United.
On 31st January 2008, Brechin City were thrown out of the Scottish Cup after fielding two inelgible players in their 2-1 fourth round replay win over Hamilton Academical. Hamilton took their place in the fifth round.[1]
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[edit] Honours
- Second Division 1982-83, 1989-90, 2004-05
- Second Division Runners Up 1992-93, 2002-3
- Third Division 2001-02
- Third Division Runners Up 1995-96
- Challenge Cup Runners Up 2002-03
- Forfarshire Cup 1909-10, 1952-53, 1958-59, 1996-97
- Scottish League Division C 1953-54
- Qualifying Cup 1950-51
- Keith Tournament 1982-83
[edit] Club Records
- Record Victory: 12-1: vs Thornhill on January 28 1926
- Biggest league loss: 0-10: vs Airdrieonians, Cowdenbeath and Albion Rovers 1937
- Biggest home attendance: 8,122: vs Aberdeen on February 3 1973
- Record for league appearances: David Watt 459
- Record for goals in one season: Ronald McIntosh (26) 1959-60
- Record for all time goals: Ian (Pink) Campbell 131
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Brechin ejected from Scottish Cup. BBC Sport (January 2008). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
