Albion Rovers F.C.

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Albion Rovers

Full name	Albion Rovers Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Wee Rovers
Founded	1882
Ground	Cliftonhill, Coatbridge, Scotland (Capacity 1,249)
Chairman	Frank Meade
Manager	John McCormack
League	Scottish Third Division
2006-07	Scottish Third Division, 6th

Albion Rovers Football Club are a Scottish football team from the North Lanarkshire town of Coatbridge, who are currently playing in the Scottish Football League. Their home stadium is Cliftonhill, which was opened on Christmas Day 1919.

The club are currently considering plans to redevelop their stadium, the plan involves selling part of the land for use for offices. The funds gained would build a new stand and probably install the latest artificial pitch.

1 History
2 Honours
3 Club Records
4 Current squad
5 Famous Albion Rovers players
6 Managers
7 External links

The club was formed with the merger of Albion and Rovers in 1882 and admitted to the Scottish Football League in 1903. They play in primrose yellow and red strips having changed from royal blue, white and black in 1961. Their greatest claim to fame is that they were Scottish Cup runners up in season 1919-20, losing in the final to Kilmarnock F.C..

Famous players in the club's past include former Celtic and Scotland manager Jock Stein, Bernie Slaven, Peter Dickson, John "Jock" White (the only player capped for Scotland while with the club), Tony Green and Jim Brown as well as many more. In the 1970s The Rovers had a half-back line of Curry, Sage and Rice which raised a few smiles at the time.

Rovers (as their fans prefer the team to be called, rather than "Albion") contested the 2004-05 season in the Third Division and have twice in the last few years been denied promotion on the final day of the season.

In early 2005 a group of fans set up Albion Rovers Supporters' Trust with a view to raising money to benefit the club and local community.

The 2006-2007 season sees the club celebrate its 125th anniversary and various events and souvenirs are planned This season also saw the club progress to the semi-finals of the Challenge Cup, their first semi-final since 1921, a match they lost 4 - 1 to Ross County in Dingwall.

Albion Rovers F.C. from Newport, Wales, playing in the Gwent County League, are named after Albion Rovers F.C. in Scotland, by "expats". There are also clubs of the same name in Australia (currently using the name Cairnlea but has changed to and from Albion Rovers several times over their 40 year history) and the Republic of Ireland.

Scottish Cup : Runners Up 1919/20

Second Division Champions : 1933/34, 1988/89

Scottish Qualifying Cup : 1913/14

Competitions Now Defunct :-

Scottish Football Combination : 1913/14

Lanarkshire Cup : 1899/1900, 1920/21, 1948/49, 1950/51, 1973/74, 1974/75, 1981/82, 1986/87

Lanarkshire Express Cup : 1893/94, 1912/13, 1921/22

Airdrie Charities Cup : 1891/92

Western League : 1917/18

Biggest win: 12-0 v Airdriehill (Scottish Cup, 3 September 1887)

Biggest defeat: 1-11 v Partick Thistle (Scottish League Cup, 11 August 1993)

Biggest home attendance: 27,381 v Rangers (Scottish Cup, 8 February 1936)

Record Scorer: John Renwick (41, 1932/33)

No.		Position	Player
		GK	David Scott
		GK	Tony Mitchell
		DF	Ciaran Donnelly
		DF	Alan Benton
		DF	Michael McGowan
		DF	Robert Walker
		DF	Richard Buckley
		DF	Alan Reid
		DF	John McStay
		MF	Iain Chisholm
		MF	Callan Adams