Vale of Leven F.C.

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Vale of Leven Football Club are a Scottish football (soccer) club based in the town of Alexandria in the Vale of Leven area of West Dunbartonshire. Nicknamed the Vale and formed in 1939, they play at Millburn Park. They play in the Scottish Junior Football Association, Western Region, and wear blue and white strips.

There was an earlier Vale of Leven F.C., which also played at Millburn Park, and which was a strong club in the early days of Scottish football, and whose decline went hand in hand with that of the Dunbartonshire area economically. They won the Scottish Cup three times (in 1877, 1878 and 1879, when one of their best players was John Ferguson) and played in the Scottish Football League, of which they were founder members in 1890. The club also won the Glasgow Celtic Society Cup in shinty in 1879.

The current club is technically unattached to this former senior club, but in reality it is the continuation of it. Scottish Junior football has a number of clubs (eg. Arthurlie, Beith, Larkhall Royal Albert, Port Glasgow Athletic) that were forced to fold as Senior sides due to financial reasons or as a result of the collapse of the old Scottish Division Three in the late 1920s. (Some initially found a home in the Scottish Alliance, until this too was discontinued at the behest of the Senior sides.) This is more prevalent on the West Coast where no non-amateur Senior league exists any longer. The most recent example of this trend has been the former Junior turned Senior turned Junior again side Clydebank F.C..

Vale of Leven should not be confused with the slightly differently named East of Scotland League club Vale of Leithen.

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  • Winners: 1952-53

  • Central League champions: 1946-47, 1969-70
  • Central League B Division winners: 1969-70
  • Central League C Division winners: 1978-79

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