Cambuslang Football Club was a Scottish football club, based in the
Cambuslang
Cambuslang ( sco, Cammuslang, from gd, Camas Lang) is a town on the south-eastern outskirts of Greater Glasgow, Scotland. With approximately 30,000 residents, it is the 27th largest town in Scotland by population, although, never having had a ...
area (
Greater Glasgow
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). Cambuslang was one of the founding members of the
Scottish Football League
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, but left the league after just two seasons.
History
The club was founded in 1874. The new football club was named Excelsior with a pitch being laid out in Cambuslang Public Park, known locally as Bogshole Park.
The new club were challenged by the lads from the village of Halfway to play for the right to call themselves Cambuslang, so the Excelsior team went to Halfway and in their first match at Clyde Street Park won by the scoreline of 6–0; from then on the Excelsior name was scratched and Cambuslang Football and Athletic Club were formed.
In 1879 at a meeting at the Cross Hotel in
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the secretary of Cambuslang was joined by those of Airdrie, Airdriehill, Drumpellier,
Hamilton Academical
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, Glengowan,
Clydebank
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, Uddingston, West Benhar, Benhar and Stonelaw where it was agreed that each club would pay 10 shillings (50p) towards a county cup and the new district would be known as the ''Lanarkshire County Football Association''. Cambuslang would win the
Lanarkshire Cup
The Lanarkshire Cup was an annual competition open to football teams in the Lanarkshire area. The competition is now defunct.
List of winners
1879–80 - Stonelaw
1880–81 - Thistle
1881–82 - Hamilton Academical
1882–83 - West Benhar
1883â ...
on two occasions and be runners up four times before falling out with the Lanarkshire Football Association and joining the
Glasgow Football Association
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for the 1887–88 season.
The club officially left the Lanarkshire Association, while Mr Park a club board member, also stepped down as the Association president, in March 1887.
They reached the
Scottish Cup Final
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Abercorn
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10–1 in a semi-final replay after a 1–1 draw with a goal from Billy Mortimer, but lost the final 6–1 to Renton in what remains the joint-largest margin in the competition's history (matched in
1972
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). The two clubs also met in the final of the Glasgow Charity Cup three months later, Renton winning 4–0. In between, however, Cambuslang had the consolation of winning the inaugural
Glasgow Cup
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, beating Rangers 3–1 in the final in front of 12,000 at
Hampden Park
Hampden Park (Scottish Gaelic: ''PÃ irc Hampden''), often referred to as Hampden, is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The -capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland. It is the no ...
.
Cambuslang joined the Scottish Football League at its inauguration in 1890 and finished fourth in the 1890–91 season. The club finished last in the eleven team league in 1891–92, however, and did not seek re-election to the League. They made no effort to re-join the League when it added a Second Division.
Cambuslang's demise came at the end of the 1896–97 season, playing in the Scottish Alliance League.
The Junior team Cambuslang Rangers have nothing whatsoever to do with the former defunct club but they shared the ground for the first year in 1896–97 before moving on. They were called Cambuslang Rovers from 1896–1899 before changing to Rangers in 1899 (they were a merger of three local Junior teams), the other junior side was Cambuslang Hibernian who were formed in 1884 and used Bogshole, later renamed Mains Park.
Stadium
*1874–1876 Bogshole
*1876–1888 Westburn Green/Westburn Park
*1888–1897
Whitefield Park
Whitefield Park was a football ground in Cambuslang, Scotland. It was the home ground of Cambuslang F.C. between 1888 and 1897, including their two seasons in the Scottish Football League.
History
The park was named after 18th century preach ...
Colours
The club played in dark blue, with varying amounts of white (shorts in 1874, shorts and socks from 1879 to 1886, and shorts again from 1893 to the club's end). The club's change kit was white shirts.
Honours
*
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1887–88
*
Lanarkshire Cup
The Lanarkshire Cup was an annual competition open to football teams in the Lanarkshire area. The competition is now defunct.
List of winners
1879–80 - Stonelaw
1880–81 - Thistle
1881–82 - Hamilton Academical
1882–83 - West Benhar
1883â ...
Glasgow Cup
The Glasgow Cup is a football tournament open to teams from Glasgow, Scotland. Operated by the Glasgow Football Association, it was competed for annually by senior Glasgow clubs from 1887 until 1989. It is now (since the 2019–20 amended rules ...