Baillieston Juniors Football Club were a

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football club based in

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, who played in Scottish Junior Football Association competitions from 1919 until 2003. They won the Scottish Junior Cup once, in 1980.

History

The club was formed in 1919 and made an immediate impression on the Junior game. They reached their first Scottish Junior Cup final in 1924, losing to Parkhead after a replay and won back-to-back titles in the

Scottish Junior League The Scottish Junior Football League (SJL) was a Scottish football competition that, through various incarnations, existed from 1892 to 1947. It was based in the west of Scotland and largely consisted of Junior clubs that were not considered goo ...

. Baillieston joined the rebels in the

Intermediate dispute 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 to ...

and won the first ever Intermediate league championship in 1927–28 however the club were enticed back under the wing of the SJFA and they rejoined the Scottish Junior League in 1929. In amongst the larger clubs in the Central Junior League after

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, Baillieston enjoyed moderate success with another Junior Cup final appearance in 1965, losing to Linlithgow Rose. Their greatest era came in the early 80's when the club reached three Junior Cup finals in five years. Victory over

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in a second replay saw the club lift the trophy in 1980. They lost out however in their two subsequent appearances against Blantyre Victoria in 1982 and

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in 1984. The club sold their Station Park ground to a developer in 2000 with the aim of moving to a purpose built stadium in the

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area of Glasgow. They initially groundshared with

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and St. Roch's before playing a full season away from home but with the nomadic situation draining funds earmarked for the new ground, Baillieston took non-playing membership of the SJFA in 2003. With no plan for a ground ever coming to fruition, the club effectively dissolved in 2005 with the Baillieston Juniors name kept going by local youth sides. Former Baillieston players include

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, Andrew Anderson and Davie Wilson who all went on to earn full international caps for

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and Andy Walker. Walker was a member of Baillieston's losing Junior Cup final side in 1984. Other ex-players notable for careers away from football are the politician Tommy Sheridan and the

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Honours

* Scottish Junior Cup winners: 1979–80 ** Runners-up: 1923–24, 1964–65, 1981–82, 1983–84 *

Scottish Intermediate 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 to ...

winners: 1927–28 *

winners: 1923–24, 1924–25 * Central Junior League winners: 1959–60 *

West of Scotland Junior Cup The West of Scotland Junior Challenge Cup was an annual Scottish football competition played in a one-leg knockout format (played at 'home' team grounds as drawn, until the final at a neutral venue), organised by the West Region of the Scottish ...

winners: 1952–53

References

Sources

Scottish Football Historical Archive
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