Mauchline Football Club was a senior football team based in the small town of Mauchline in East Ayrshire.
History
The club was founded in 1873. Its first match against another side was in February 1874, against
Ayr Academy
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Mauchline was an original member of two ill-fated leagues who survived for just one season, The
Ayrshire Football League
Ayrshire Football League is a defunct soccer league in Scotland.
Formed in 1891 by Annbank, Ayr Parkhouse, Beith, Galston, Irvine, Kilwinning Monkcastle, Mauchline, Newmilns, Saltcoats Victoria and Stevenston Thistle F.C.
By 1893 the Ayrshire F ...
for the 1891–92 season and the original South of Scotland Football League in 1892–93.
However, Mauchline were better known as a cup team, appearing in every
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Renton.
In the same season, the club won the
Ayrshire Cup
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for the only time, beating
Portland
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4–2 in the final, played at Holm Quarry, the home ground for a number of other Kilmarnock sides. The match proved to be a test between the Portland's wider wing play and Mauchline's more compact forward line; Portland's opening goal was a Goldie header from a Sinclair corner, and the club went 2–1 up after Mauchline's back Wilson impeded his goalkeeper, but two goals in the last 20 minutes won the trophy for Mauchline. Portland had a measure of revenge in 1878–79 by winning the Burns Cup, an invitational tournament to raise funds for a statue to Robert Burns, coming from behind to beat Mauchline 2–1 in the final - the first time the Portland had beaten the Mauchline.
The senior club dissolved in 1897 but adopted junior status as Mauchline Thistle Football Club, which itself disbanded just seven years later.
A second Mauchline Football Club was founded in 1911 and existed until 1922 although all competitions were suspended throughout the First World War, 1914–1918.
Colours
The club played in blue and white hooped jerseys and hose, with white knickers.
Ground
The club's ground at Connel Park was a 3-minute walk from the Mauchline railway station. As late as 1886 the club did not have facilities on the ground, teams having to change at the Loudoun Hotel.
Scottish
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*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
caps whilst a Mauchline player, scoring three goals; he was the sole club representative to have been selected for international duty.
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Hughie Wilson
Hugh Wilson (18 March 1869 – 7 April 1940) was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland, Third Lanark and the Scotland national football team as a wing half or inside forward.
Club career
Born in Mauchline, Ayrshire and known by th ...
played for the club until 1884.
* W. H. Campbell of Mauchline F.C. finished second in the Scottish long jump championship of
1888
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.''Scottish Athletics 1883-1983'', John W. Keddie (1982)