Thistle F.C.

Thistle F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Thistle


fullname = Thistle Football Club
nickname =
founded = 1875
ground = Braehead Park
capacity =
chairman =
manager =
league = Scottish League
season =
position =
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Thistle Football Club was a Scottish football club based at Braehead Park near central Glasgow. The club was briefly a member of the Scottish Football League Second Division and has been described as the most insignificant and least successful to have entered the League.cite book |last= Twydell |first= Dave | title= Rejected F.C. of Scotland Volume 2:Glasgow & District |year= 1993 |pages=pp. 230-239 |isbn=1-874427-30-5 ]

The club was formed in 1875 and became founder member of the Scottish Football Alliance in 1891. Although they initially struggled in the competition they were one of the members invited to form the new Second Division of the Scottish League for the 1893-94 season. The club failed to make an impact, suffering some heavy defeats, including a 13-1 reverse at Partick Thistle on March 10 1894 [J. Rollin, "The Guinness Football Factbook", Enfield: Guinness Publishing, 1993, p. 140] , the largest defeat in the Scottish League to date; it has only been better by Dundee Wanderers' 15-1 loss to Airdrie the following season. Finishing bottom of the league, the club folded before the re-election meeting, despite takings of £118 at a benefit match between Sunderland and the Scottish League.

References

External links

* [http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Thistle/Thistle.htm Club history and kits]


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