Edinburgh City F.C.

For the 1928−1955 club, see Edinburgh City F.C. (1928).
Edinburgh City
Full name Edinburgh City Football Club
Nickname(s) The Citizens
Founded 1966 (1966) (as Postal United)
Ground Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
Ground Capacity 5,000
Chairman James Lumsden
Manager Gary Jardine
League Scottish League Two
2015–16 Lowland League, 1st (promoted via play-offs)
Website Club home page

Edinburgh City Football Club are a part-time professional senior Scottish football club, which plays in Scottish League Two, the fourth tier of the Scottish Professional Football League. The club are based at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.

A club known as Edinburgh City was first formed in 1928. It participated in the Scottish Football League in the 1930s and 1940s, but went out of business in the 1950s. The present club adopted the Edinburgh City name in 1986. It applied to join the Scottish Football League in 2002 and 2008, but failed to win election. Edinburgh City became members of the new Lowland League in 2013. The club won the Lowland League championship in 2015 and 2016 and won promotion to the Scottish Professional Football League in 2016.

History

The original Edinburgh City was founded in 1928. The club adopted amateur status, with the aim of becoming the Edinburgh equivalent of Queen's Park. Edinburgh City joined the Scottish Football League in 1931.[1] The club played in the Lothian Amateur League during the Second World War and were only admitted to the C Division in 1946.[2][3] After three more years of struggle, the club left the Scottish Football League in 1949.[2][3] It switched to junior status and played in the Edinburgh & District Junior League.[2][3] The club ceased activity completely in 1955,[2] when the local council refused to renew its lease on its home ground, City Park.[3]

A club called Postal United was founded in 1966. The Edinburgh City Football Club Ltd (Social Club), which had continued trading as a social club since the football club stopped playing, gave their approval in 1986 for Postal United to use the Edinburgh City name.[3] The club has regularly participated in the Scottish Cup since the mid-1990s, when it became a full member of the Scottish Football Association.[3] In the 1997–98 Scottish Cup they defeated SFL club, East Stirlingshire, before losing 7–2 to Dunfermline Athletic, then of the Premier Division.

The club applied to join the Scottish Football League in 2002,[4] after Airdrieonians had gone bankrupt, but Gretna won the vote instead. Edinburgh City applied again following Gretna's liquidation in 2008,[5] but this time lost out to Annan Athletic.[6]

Edinburgh City won the East of Scotland Football League Premier Division title for the first time in the 2005–06 season and became members of the new Lowland League in 2013.[7] The club won the Lowland League championship in 2014–15 and 2015–16. They then gained promotion to the Scottish Professional Football League by defeating East Stirlingshire in a playoff.[8]

Stadium

Meadowbank Stadium, where the club play their home fixtures

The original club played its home matches at Powderhall Stadium and City Park during its time in the Scottish Football League.

The present club initially played their home fixtures at the Saughton Enclosure, which is now home to Lothian Thistle, before switching to Paties Road, where Edinburgh United currently play. Edinburgh City then moved to City Park and then Fernieside. Edinburgh City moved to Meadowbank Stadium in 1996, which had been vacated by the move of Meadowbank Thistle to Livingston.[3]

Non-playing staff

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Position Name
Chairman James Lumsden
Manager Gary Jardine
Coach Ross Ballantine
Coach Ross MacNamara
Coach Gordon Murray

Current squad

As of 23 September 2016[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Scotland GK Gregor Amos
Wales GK Calum Antell
Scotland GK Andrew Stobie
Scotland DF Jordan Caddow
Scotland DF Gordon Donaldson
Scotland DF Aaron Dunsmore (on loan from Hibernian)
Scotland DF Shaun Harrison
Scotland DF Neil Martyniuk
Cameroon DF Joseph Mbu
Scotland DF Christopher McKee
Scotland DF Frazer Paterson
Scotland DF Ryan Porteous (on loan from Hibernian)
Scotland MF Dean Cummings
No. Position Player
Scotland MF John Dunn
Scotland MF Douglas Gair
Scotland MF Dominico Gibson
Scotland MF Ross Guthrie
Scotland MF Marc Laird
Scotland MF John MacDonald
Scotland MF Mark McConnell
Scotland MF Ian McFarland (captain)
Scotland MF Sean Muhsin
England MF Grant Vanson
Scotland FW Ross Allum
Scotland FW Craig Beattie
Scotland FW Ousman See

Colours

The club colours are white and black.[3] Postal United F.C. played in all-red, but switched to the traditional colours when it adopted the Edinburgh City identity in 1986.[3]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ (Bob Crampsey 1990, p. 294)
  2. 1 2 3 4 (Bob Crampsey 1990, p. 295)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Edinburgh City". Historical Football Kits. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  4. ↑ Lindsay, Clive (17 June 2002). "Airdrie may edge out Gretna". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "Edinburgh City will apply to SFL". BBC Sport. BBC. 11 June 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "Annan voted into Scottish league". BBC Sport. BBC. 3 July 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  7. ↑ "Scottish Lowland Football League clubs selected". Scottish FA. SFA. 17 June 2013.
  8. ↑ McLauchlin, Brian (14 May 2016). "East Stirlingshire 0–1 Edinburgh City". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  9. 1 2 "1st team players and management".

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