| Full name | Addiewell Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1880 | |
| Dissolved | 1885 | |
| Ground | Cuthill Park | |
| Captain | James M'Nicol[1] | |
| Hon. & Match Secretary | Kenneth Lamond | |
Addiewell Football Club was a Scottish senior football club from the village ofAddiewell,Midlothian.
The club was founded in 1880. Its first recorded match was an 8–0 defeat to theShotts reserve XI,[2] and its first competitive football came in theEdinburgh Shield that September, with a 7–1 defeat toBurntisland Thistle.[3]
The club did improve over the season, and won 6 of 12 matches,[4] but one of the defeats was by 8 goals to 1 at home to the closest clubWest Calder,[5] which, although with fewer members, had more experience of the game. Addiewell nevertheless joined theScottish Football Association, at the same time as West Calder,[6] in time to enter the1881–82 Scottish Cup.
Addiewell was unlucky with its first round draw, having to faceHibernian away. The clubs played their tie in advance of the other scheduled ties, probably to "lock in" the Hibernian players for the competition, and Hibs won 7–0.[7] The club also lost in the first round of the Edinburgh Shield, to West Calder, 1–0; an Addiewell protest that it had wrongly been denied a goal was dismissed.[8]
1882–83 was the club's final season of senior football. It walked over serial withdrawersDunfermline in the first round of theScottish Cup, and, before its second round tie withHeart of Midlothian, beat St Lennox Zebras in the Edinburgh Shield for its first competitive win. Unfortunately, the club had scheduled its conversazione - the term for an annual celebration - on the eve of the Hearts tie, resulting in a "poor muster of the first eleven"; only four regular first-team players - not including the captain - were in a fit state to play. The consequence is that Hearts ran up 14 goals without reply.[9]
Addiewell at least reached the third round of the Edinburgh Shield, having to beatMossend Swifts twice after a protest,[10] but went down 8–0 toSt Bernards in the third.
Addiewell left the Scottish FA before the 1883–84 season,[11] but was active until 1885–86, albeit in October 1885 the club's conversazione "was not nearly so large as on earlier occasions"[12] and indeed it does not seem to have played after the 1884–85 season.
The club wore white jerseys and "pants", with red stockings.[13]
The club's ground was at Cuthill Park, 2 miles from the nearest railway station.[14]
