Kirriemuir Thistle Football Club are a Scottish
junior
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Arts and entertainment Music
* ''Junior'' (Junior Mance album), 1959
* ''Junior'' (Röyksopp album), 2009
* ''Junior'' (Kaki King album), 2010
* ''Junior'' (LaFontaines album), 2019
Films
* ''Junior'' (1994 ...
football
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club based in
Kirriemuir
Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie or the ''Wee Red Toon'' ( gd, An Ceathramh Mòr; IPA: nˈkʰʲɛɾəvmoːɾ, is a burgh in Angus, Scotland. It reaches back to earliest recorded times, when it is thought to have been a major ecclesiastical ...
,
Angus
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* ''Angus'' (film), a 1995 film
* ''Angus Og'' (comics), in the ''Daily Record''
Places Australia
* Angus, New South Wales
Canada
* Angus, Ontario, a community in Essa, Ontario
* East Angus, Quebec
Scotland
* An ...
. Their home ground is Westview Park.
Up until the end of the 2005–06 season, the club played in
Tayside Division One of the
Scottish Junior Football Association
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's
East Region. They had previously finished as champions of the previous
Tayside Junior Football League
The Tayside Junior Football League, originally called the ''Midlands League'', was a football league competition operated in Tayside under the Scottish Junior Football Association which operated as the top league in the territory from 1969 until a ...
system once, in 1974.
The SJFA restructured prior to the 2006–07 season, and Kirriemuir found themselves in the twelve-team
East Region, North Division. They finished eighth in their first season in the division.
A co-management duo of Chris Kettles and Ralph Brand were appointed in September 2017, with Kettles assuming sole charge after Brand stepped down in January 2018.
On 14 June 2021, Darren Scott has left the club.
Non-playing staff
*Manager - Darren Scott
*Coach - Kevin McNaughton
*Coach - Ross Grant
References
External links
Club website*
*
Football clubs in Scotland
Scottish Junior Football Association clubs
Association football clubs established in 1921
Football clubs in Angus, Scotland
1921 establishments in Scotland
Kirriemuir
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