Bathgate Thistle F.C.
| Full name | Bathgate Thistle Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Thistle | ||
| Founded | 1937 | ||
| Ground | Creamery Park Hardhill Road Bathgate | ||
| Capacity | 3,000 | ||
| Honorary President | Jim Walker | ||
| Manager | Stewart Devine | ||
| League | East of Scotland League Conference X | ||
| 2020–21 | SJFA East Region Premiership South (season abandoned) | ||
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Bathgate Thistle Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in the town of Bathgate, West Lothian. They play in the East of Scotland League Conference X.
Nicknamed Thistle, they were formed in 1937 and presently play their home games at Creamery Park, which has room for 3,000 spectators. Their home shirts are blue with a white trim and their away shirts are black with a white trim.
In 2006, Thistle reached the final of the Scottish Junior Cup, losing 2–1 to Auchinleck Talbot at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock, in front of around 7,000 spectators. In 2008, the club reached the final again, this time defeating Cumnock Juniors 2–1.[1]
Thistle have a community football club involving some of the town's youth sides under Bathgate Juniors.[2] The Junior side is managed by Stewart Devine.
Honours[]
- Winners: 2007–08
- Runners-up: 2005–06
Other Honours[]
- East Region Division Two champions: 1986–87, 1990–91
- East of Scotland Junior Cup winners: 1941–42, 2006–07
- St. Michael Cup winners: 1940–41, 1959–60, 2000–01
- Brown Cup winners: 1941–42
- Thornton Shield winners: 1943–44, 1944–45
- RL Rae Cup winners: 1965–66 – Manager was William Ross Smith (ex-Partick Thistle, Queen of the South and Berwick Rangers)
- Fife and Lothians Cup winners: 2009–10
References[]
- ^ Colin Duncan (2 June 2008). "Junior Cup Final: Bathgate 2-1 Cumnock". Daily Record. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
- ^ Westbrook, Kieran (21 February 2013). "Football clubs merge to form Bathgate Thistle Community Football Club". West Lothian Courier. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
External links[]
- Bathgate Thistle F.C.
- Football in West Lothian
- Football clubs in Scotland
- Scottish Junior Football Association clubs
- Association football clubs established in 1937
- 1937 establishments in Scotland
- East of Scotland Football League teams
- Scottish football club stubs