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Kilbarchan F.C.
Kilbarchan Football Club was a Scottish association football, football team located in the village of Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire (historic), Renfrewshire. History The club was founded in October 1879. Despite being one of the smaller sides in the county, the club survived, with scant success, for almost three decades. The club's first notable achievement was reaching the final of the Johnstone & District Cup in 1881–82, losing to Clippens F.C., Clippens; the club would gain revenge in the final two years later. 1881–82 also saw the club's first entries into the Scottish Cup and Renfrewshire Cup. In the county competition, Kilbarchan went out at the first time of asking, 4–1 to Renfrew F.C. (1875), Renfrew. In the national competition, however, the club had what proved to be its best run, reaching the third round. In the first round, the club beat Ladyburn F.C., Ladyburn 8–1, thanks to six unanswered second-half goals, and in the second won 4–3 at Wellington Park F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
