Clachnacuddin Football Club is a part-time, senior Scottish
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club based in the city of
Inverness
Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...
, that currently plays in the
Highland Football League.
Clachnacuddin have won the most
Highland Football League championships in the competition's history: a total of 18. Their home ground is Grant Street Park in the city's
Merkinch
Merkinch (Scottish Gaelic: ''Marc-Innis'', meaning "Island of the Horse") is an area of the city of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland. One of the oldest neighbourhoods in Inverness, it's situated in the city's north-west flanke ...
area.
[Clachnacuddin: The fire-hit football club longing to return home]
BBC Scotland News, 31 January 2020 They also have a youth system, with many teams ranging from the primary squads to the under 19s.
The club operated a
reserve team
In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players under contract to a club but who do not normally play in matches for the first team. Reserve teams often include back-up players from the first team, young players who need playing time to i ...
in the
North Caledonian Football League
The North Caledonian Football Association is a football association operating throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and is a recognised body of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) and as such has its senior football competitions of ...
but withdrew for the start of the
2014–15 season.
They were founded in 1885 and are nicknamed "The Lilywhites" (due to their white strip) or "Clach". Their name is an English approximation of a
Scots Gaelic name meaning "the stone of the tub", referring to a city landmark in Inverness.
As a full member of the
Scottish FA
The Scottish Football Association (also known as the SFA and the Scottish FA; sco, Scots Fitba Association; Scottish Gaelic: ''Comann Ball-coise na h-Alba'') is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility for ...
, they are entitled to enter the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,[Merkinch
Merkinch (Scottish Gaelic: ''Marc-Innis'', meaning "Island of the Horse") is an area of the city of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland. One of the oldest neighbourhoods in Inverness, it's situated in the city's north-west flanke ...](_blank)
area of
Inverness
Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...
since the ground opened in 1886. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 3,000 spectators.
On 23 May 1988 a major fire destroyed Grant Street's wooden grandstand with vandalism blamed.
On the morning of Christmas Eve 2019, a fire broke out in the kit room due to an electrical fault in a tumble drier. As a result, Clachnacuddin's home game against
Formartine United
Formartine United Football Club are a Scottish senior association football club from Pitmedden, Aberdeenshire currently playing in the Highland Football League. They joined the Highland League for the 2009–10 season, having been accepted ...
was called off. Following this incident, Clach were put into a temporary groundshare with
Highland RFC
Highland Rugby Football Club is a rugby union amateur club from the city of Inverness that compete in the . They have a number of teams taken from different age groups including micros and minis, S1 and S2, Under-15, Under-16, Under-18 and senio ...
at Canal Park, in the
Bught area of Inverness.
[
File:Grantstreetparkinverness.jpg
File:Clachnacuddin Football Club ground.JPG
]
Honours
Highland Football League:[Scottish Highland League]
Scottish Football Historical Archive, 2 January 2021
*Champions: 1894–95, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1900–01, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1904–05, 1905–06, 1907–08, 1911–12, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1974–75, 2003–04
Highland League Cup
The Highland League Cup is a knock-out tournament contested since 1946 by football clubs in the Highland Football League.
Brora Rangers are the current holders, while Keith
Keith may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Keith (given ...
[
*Winners: 1947–48, 1950–51, 1981–82, 2003–04, 2013–14
]North of Scotland Cup
The North of Scotland Cup is a knock-out tournament for football teams in membership of the North of Scotland Football Association. The teams involved are based in the Highlands and Moray and membership consists of senior clubs from the Scotti ...
:
*Winners: 1894–95, 1895–96, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1922–23, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1964–65, 1979–80, 1992–93, 2001–02
Inverness Cup
The Inverness Cup is a football competition for teams around Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Originally, it was contested by the four Inverness based teams: Caledonian, Citadel, Clachnacuddin and Thistle, but became an invitational tourna ...
:
*Winners: 1897–98, 1900–01 1903–04, 1904–05, 1906–07, 1909–10, 1919–20, 1921–22, 1923–24, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1936–37, 1951–52, 1952–53
Scottish Qualifying Cup (North):
*Winners: 1934–35, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1998–99
Bells Cup:
*Winners: 1977–78
Inverness Charity Cup:[Inverness Charity Cup]
Scottish Football Historical Archive, 6 July 2020
*Winners: 1896–97, 1897–98, 1903–04, 1904–05, 1920–21, 1927–28, 1932–33, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1948–49
Elginshire Charity Cup:
Scottish Football Historical Archive, 14 July 2020
*Winners: 1896–97, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1905–06
Inverness Sports Bed Cup:[
*Winners: 1937–38
]
Club records
* Record attendance
Attendance is the concept of people, individually or as a group, appearing at a location for a previously scheduled event. Measuring attendance is a significant concern for many organizations, which can use such information to gauge the effectiven ...
: 8,850 vs St Johnstone, 17 January 1948
References
External links
Website
Facebook
Twitter
{{Highland Football League
Football clubs in Scotland
Highland Football League teams
Association football clubs established in 1885
1885 establishments in Scotland
Football clubs in Inverness