| Full name | Ailsa Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1874 | |
| Dissolved | 1880 | |
| Ground | Buckingham Park | |
| President | A. Dunlop | |
| Secretary | David Dunlop | |
| Captain | W. Dyet[1] | |
Ailsa Football Club was a 19th-centuryassociation football club originally based atPollokshields, inGlasgow.
The club was founded in 1874 and took its name from the rock ofAilsa Craig, and its first reported matches come from the 1875–76 season.[2] It was one of the smaller Glasgow clubs, with a membership of 30 in 1876, more only thanShawfield andUnion at the time.[3]
The club first entered theScottish Cup in1877–78, losing 2–0 toLenzie.[4] Ailsa also lost in the first round thefollowing year, 7–0 atGovan, although theNorth British Daily Mail report incorrectly referred to Ailsa as "Woodburn".[5]
In the1879–80 Scottish Cup, the club reached the third round; after a walkover in the first, Ailsa beatRosslyn 3–1,[6] but lost 6–0 atClyde in the third, even though Clyde played with ten men for the second half.[7]
It was the club's last Cup fixture. Although it did enter the1880–81 Scottish Cup, it scratched to theGood Templars Harmonic.[8]
A new Ailsa club, with no known link to the original, played inAnniesland in the 1892–93 season.[9][10]
The club's colours were pale blue and white 1-inch hooped shirts and stockings, with white knickerbockers.[11]
The club originally played at a private ground in Pollokshields.[12] In 1878 the club moved to Buckingham Park off Copeland Road,Govan.[13]
