| Full name | Uddingston Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1877 | |
| Dissolved | 1882 | |
| Ground | Mayfield | |
| Hon. President | John Addie | |
| Secretary | Alex Inglis Jr[1] | |
Uddingston Football Club was a 19th-centuryfootball club based inUddingston,Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The club was formed in 1876, and was admitted to theScottish Football Association at the start of the 1877–78 season.[2] This entitled the club to enter theScottish Cup for the first time. In the first round, the club won 3–1 atNewmilns, thanks to goals from the feet of M. M'Callum, J. Goldie, and J. Clark,[3] and in the second the club won 3–0 atHamilton.[4]
That would however be the last Scottish Cup tie the club won. In the third round, with the Lanarkshire region joining theGlasgow region in the draw, the club lost 13–0 atRangers,[5] which remains Rangers' joint biggest margin of victory. Uddingston lost in the first round in1878–79 (3–1 atHamilton Academical,[6] in a replay, with both games taking place at Hamiton's South Avenue)[7] and1880–81 (3–0 atRoyal Albert),[8] and withdrew after being drawn againstCambuslang in1879–80.
Although theLanarkshire Cup started in 1879–80, the club only entered once (in 1880–81), losing in the second round toThistle of east Glasgow .[9]
The final record of the club is its appearance in the1881–82 Scottish Cup. It received a walkover in the first round fromUpper Clydesdale but was beaten 10–0 by Thistle in the second, the first goal coming after five minutes and seven coming in the first half.[10]
The club seems to have wound up after the 1881–82 season. There are references to matches for an Uddingston side in the mid-1880s but they appear to refer to a different junior club.[11] A second Uddingston senior club was founded in 1887.[12]
The club played in the following:
The club played at private grounds 10 minutes' walk from the station, which was finally named in 1881 as Mayfield.[16]
