Bankfoot Athletic Football Club were a Scottish

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restructured prior to the 2006–07 season, and Athletic found themselves in the twelve-team East Region, Central Division. They finished twelfth (bottom) in their first season in the division. The club spent the 2013–14 season in abeyance owing to a lack of committee members and at the

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's AGM on 21 June 2014 it was announced that Bankfoot had withdrawn as members of the SJFA.

Notable former players

Paul Sturrock Paul Whitehead Sturrock (born 10 October 1956) is a Scottish former association football, football coach and former player. As a player, Sturrock spent his entire senior career with Dundee United, making more than five hundred appearances betwe ...

Jim Weir James McIntosh Weir (born 15 June 1969) is a Scottish professional football player and coach. Weir played in the senior Scottish leagues for Hamilton Academical, Hearts and St. Johnstone. He has also worked as manager of Montrose, Arbroath, ...

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