Dumbarton FC

April 22, 2018 by Alexander Meldrum

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Dumbarton Football Club is Scotland's 4th oldest football club, founded in 1872, just after Queen's Park (1867), Kilmarnock (1869) and Stranraer (1870). The clubs' badge features an elephant with a castle on its back, this represents Dumbarton Rock with Dumbarton Castle upon it, based on the historic town crest. Dumbarton Rock, a volcanic plug, is said to resemble an elephant. The teams nickname 'The Sons' is derived from the phrase 'Sons of The Rock', a term used for those born in the town of Dumbarton. The club were one of the greatest clubs of the nineteenth century, winning the Scottish Football League in the first two seasons of the competition. Prior to December 2000 the team played at Boghead Park from 1879 until the end of the 1999–00 season, 121 years is currently the longest a senior Scottish club has stayed at the same ground. Between May and November 2000, Dumbarton shared Cliftonhill in Coatbridge with Albion Rovers. In November 2014 the club's owners, Brabco, formally announced its intention to move to a new ground, after only 15 years at their current home, to be situated in what is now Young's Farm to the North of Dumbarton between Dalreoch and Renton just off the A82 by-pass. The proposed new development, which had long been rumoured, would double the existing capacity to 4,000 in a mix of seating and terracing, add additional hospitality and non-footballing facilities, allow for training and community artificial pitches and increase access and parking facilities from the current site. The existing site would be used by Denny Homes to build 180 houses and a walkway along the River Clyde connecting the town centre with Dumbarton Rock. League Scottish Football League: Winners (2): 1890–91, 1891–92 Scottish First Division Winners (2): 1910–11, 1971–72 Runners-up (2): 1907–08, 1983–84 Scottish Second Division: Winners (1): 1991–92 Runners-up (1): 1994–95 Play-Off Winners (1): 2011–12 Scottish Third Division: Winners (1): 2008–09 Runners-up (1): 2001–02 Cup Scottish Cup: Winners (1): 1882–83 Runners-up (5): 1880–81, 1881–82, 1886–87, 1890–91, 1896–97 Scottish Challenge Cup: Runners-up (1): 2017–18

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