Formed a decade before Clyde in 1868, Thistle's first ground was situated nearby at the club's original home Barrowfield Park. Rangers Youth Invitational Tournament (under 13s): Helensburgh Bi-Centennial Tournament (under 13s): Kildrum United Football Festival (under 13s): Oban Saints Youth Tournament (under 13s): This page was last edited on 17 April 2021, at 11:34. [110] Clyde beat Motherwell in the semi final, but lost to Accies in the final. Home and away victories over Airdrie United in the play-off final then secured First Division football at Broadwood for another season. A crowd of 30,000 gathered at Celtic Park in Belfast. [16], The route to the 1954–55 Final began with three straight home victories in the competition against Albion Rovers (3–0), Raith Rovers (3–1) and Falkirk (5–0). or "Their goal, yes". The first suggests that the clubs and supporters and perhaps players mainly came from Bridgeton, Glasgow, a tight working-class area whose inhabitants had a reputation as "wee bullies", with this becoming transposed as the Bully Wee. Clyde F.C. Clyde's Secretary, John Graham, was also a noted rower and it seems the club had other sporting and cultural activities besides football. While the chairman's fortune was well spent on players' wages, very little else got serviced. For the record, Clyde was drawn against RC Lens of France and beat them 4–0 away and 2–1 at Shawfield. Clyde entered the 1st Round of the Scottish Cup on 29 September 1877 along with one hundred and one other teams. [126] There is also a Hall of Fame section on the club website. [43] In October 2014, the club were declared officially debt free, having accumulated an unsustainable debt of £1.4 million as a result of the club's failed promotion bid to the SPL during season 2003–04, with the burden of debt having weighed heavily on the shoulders of the club for the next decade. After producing a wonderful season of football that has marked the high tide in the club's fortunes to date, European football will forever love denying itself. Formed in 1877 at the River Clyde in Glasgow, since 1994 the team have played their home games at Broadwood Stadium. After losing the coin toss, Clyde goalkeeper Brown was under the most pressure early on. Clyde Football Club are a Scottish semi-professional football club based in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire who play in Scottish League One. Division Two restarted in 1921–22, with automatic promotion and relegation adopted. The best they could manage were semi-final appearances in 1951-52[90] and in 1953–54.[91]. Celtic were such heavy favourites that the game was presented as a gentle introduction for their new signing, Roy Keane. [103] Both of the under-19 and under-17 teams reached the semi finals of their SFL Youth Cups in 2006. The Cumbernauld Development Corporation was keen to have a sports stadium and professional football team to promote the town, and Cumbernauld, with a 50,000+ population, seemed fertile ground on which to grow new support. Clyde put together a reserve team for the SFL's Reserve League Cup competition, which included a mixture of first team fringe players and youngsters. The site had originally been a Trotting Circuit well before the turn of the twentieth century, but in 1898 Clyde Football Club began hosting home matches there. Continuing our occasional look at Saints in action at lost football grounds, this time we head to Rutherglen in Glasgow. Chalmers struck after three minutes to give Clyde a 1–0 lead in the third match. 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