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| Full name | Scone Thistle Football Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Jaggy Nettles | ||
| Founded | 1882 | ||
| Ground | Farquharson Park Stormont Road Scone | ||
| Capacity | 1,500 | ||
| Chairman | Derek Adam | ||
| Manager | Charlie King[1] | ||
| League | SJFA Midlands League[2] | ||
| 2024–25 | SJFA Midlands League, 20th of 20 | ||
Scone Thistle Football Club are a Scottishjuniorfootball club based inScone,Perth and Kinross. Their home ground is Farquharson Park and club colours are black and red.
The club was founded in 1882 making it the third oldest football club in Perthshire and oldest Perthshire Junior football club. They played in the Perthshire Junior leagues up until the outbreak ofWorld War II. In the early 1960s theJags became members of the Perthshire Juvenile Football Association (Juvenile football in Scotland was football played by adult players up to the age of 27).
The club were to remain in Juvenile football until 1983 as following the successful winning of the Scottish Juvenile Cup that year the club returned to the ranks of Junior football.[3]
Up until the end of the 2005–06 season, they played in theTayside Premier League of theScottish Junior Football Association'sEastern Region where they won theTayside JFA Division One title in season 1994–95, theEast Region Tayside Division One in 2002–03 and the Tayside League Cup in 2005–06.
The SJFA restructured prior to the 2006–07 season, and Thistle found themselves in the twelve-teamEast Region Premier League. They were relegated to theEast Region Central Division.
In April 2012 it was announced that Scone Thistle were returning to the Scottish Junior East Region League after they spent the 2011–12 season in abeyance.[4]
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