Ashfield Football Club are a Scottish

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club based in the

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area of north

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. The club compete in the and wear black and white hooped strips. Formed in 1886, they are based at

Saracen Park Saracen Park or Ashfield Stadium, also known as Peugeot Ashfield Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in Glasgow, Scotland. It is currently shared by Ashfield F.C. for Association football, football and the Glasgow Tigers (speedway), Glas ...

, which they share with the Glasgow Tigers

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team; it is located a short distance from Keppoch Park, home of neighbours

Glasgow Perthshire Glasgow Perthshire Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Possilpark, in the north of Glasgow. History The Glasgow Perthshire Athletic Club, within which the football club operated, was formed on 7 November 1890 at the Waterloo R ...

. In October 2004, the club lost many historical records and strips as a result of a fire at Saracen Park. In July 2018 former Ashfield player Paul Maxwell took over as manager with former player Ryan Cairley taking over as assistant.

Honours

Scottish Junior Cup The Scottish Junior Cup is an annual football competition organised by the Scottish Junior Football Association. The competition has been held every year since the inception of the SJFA in 1886 and, as of the 2022–23 edition, 108 teams compete ...

**Winners: 1893–94, 1894–95, 1904–05, 1909–10 **Runners-up: 1913–14, 1920–21 *

Central Junior Football League The Central Junior Football League was a football league competition operated under the Scottish Junior Football Association between 1931 and 2002, with an expansion of its membership in 1968.Glasgow Junior Football League The Glasgow Junior Football League (GJL) was a football league competition operated under the Scottish Junior Football Association between 1895 and 1927.

**Winners: 1905–06, 1906–07, 1907–08, 1908–09, 1909–10, 1920–21 *

Scottish Intermediate Football League The Intermediate dispute was a major split in Scottish football which lasted from 1925 to 1931 and concerned the compensation that Junior clubs received when one of their players moved to a Senior football league side. Although largely confined t ...

**Winners: 1928–29 * West Super League First Division **Winners: 2010–11 * Central League C Division **Winners: 1968–69 * West Region Central Second Division **Winners: 2006–07 Promotion from the WoS PDM Buildbase Second Division 2022/2023 * Central Region Division Two **Winners: 1990–91

Other Honours

* Evening Times Cup winners 2011-12 * West of Scotland Junior Cup winners: 1927–28, 1928–29 * Glasgow Junior Cup winners: 1893–94, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1907–08, 1908–09, 1909–10, 1914–15, 1925–26, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1962–63 * Glasgow Dryburgh Cup: 1926–27, 1928–29, 1946–47, 1952–53, 1962–63 * Maryhill Charity Cup: 1898, 1918

Former players

1. Players that have played/managed in the Football League or any foreign equivalent to this level (i.e. fully professional league). *

Johnny Quigley John Quigley (28 June 1935 – 30 November 2004) born in the Govan area of Glasgow he was a Scottish football midfielder and coach. His career peaked when he won the 1959 FA Cup Final with Nottingham Forest. Playing career Celtic He began his ...

- Nottingham Forest, Huddersfield Town, Bristol City, Mansfield Town *

Walter Smith Walter Ferguson Smith (24 February 1948 – 26 October 2021) was a Scottish association football player, manager and director, primarily associated with his two spells as manager of Glasgow club Rangers. A defender, Smith's playing car ...

- Dundee Utd, Glasgow Rangers, Everton, Scotland * Bobby Parker * Bill Finlayson 2. Players with full international caps. *

Archie Gray Archie James Francis Gray (born 12 March 2006) is an English professional footballer currently playing as a midfielder for club Leeds United. Club career Born in Durham, Gray joined Leeds United at under-9 level. He progressed rapidly through ...

Tommy Ring Thomas Ring (8 August 1930 – 5 October 1997) was a Scottish footballer, who played at outside left for Ashfield Juniors, Clyde, Everton, Barnsley, Aberdeen, Fraserburgh, Stevenage Town and for Scotland. Club career Ring was born in Glasg ...

* Alex Massie * Alex James *

Bobby Neill Bobby Neill (born 10 October 1933)

* Jimmy Gibson *

Johnny Crum Johnny Crum (1 January 1912 in Glasgow – 6 July 1969) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Celtic, Greenock Morton and Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the isla ...

* Jimmy Blair *

Stevie Chalmers Thomas Stephen Chalmers (26 December 1935 – 29 April 2019) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre-forward and spent the majority of his career with Celtic. He is the club's fifth-highest goalscorer with 236 goals and is consid ...

3. Players that hold a club record or have captained the club.

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