Old Kilpatrick Football Club was an

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club based in the Scottish village of

Old Kilpatrick Old Kilpatrick ( sco, Auld Kilpaitrick, gd, Cille Phàdraig meaning "Patrick's church"), is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It has an estimated population of 4,820. It belonged to the parish of Old Kilpatrick which itself was only a f ...

, Dumbartonshire.

History

The first football match played in Old Kilpatrick took place in a field at Erskine in May 1877, when an Old Kilpatrick club lost to a club from the nearby village of

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by two goals, plus one disputed, to nil. The game revived in the village with the formation of the Old Kilpatrick club a decade later, and it entered the

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for the first time in 1888–89. Not daunted by a defeat to the new

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club in the first round, Old Kilpatrick joined the

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in August 1889, and entered the

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in the first round; in the Dumbartonshire Cup, the club was drawn to face

Vale of Leven The Vale of Leven (Scottish Gaelic: ''Magh Leamhna'') is an area of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, in the valley of the River Leven. Historically, it was part of The Lennox, the name of which derives from the Gaelic term ''Leamhnach'', meaning '' ...

, and, facing certain defeat, had an offer from the Vale to scratch from the tie. The O.K.s refused, which meant the Vale had to turn down a more lucrative friendly with St Mirren, and the Vale showed no mercy, taking a 14–1 lead after an hour, when the match was stopped out of sheer mercy. The club entered the Dumbartonshire Cup until 1891–92, and the Scottish Cup until 1892–93, but lost every tie it played. The club also had a similar lack of success in the Buchanan Charity Cup, which it entered in 1888–89, 1889–90, and 1891–92, conceding 7, 7, and 8 goals in its three ties, albeit, by being given a bye to the final in 1889–90, the club was at least counted as runner-up to Clydebank. Old Kilpatrick was never a frequent participant in friendlies, and its last record is its scratching from the first preliminary round of the 1892–93 Scottish Cup. The name was revived in 1898 for a Junior club, which also played at High Lusset Park.

Colours

The club wore dark blue.

Ground

The club played at High Lusset Park.

Notable players

* Thomas Campbell, formerly of Abercorn and

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, joined the club in 1891

External links

Dumbartonshire Cup results

References

{{Defunct Scottish football clubs, state=collapsed

Association football clubs established in 1888 Association football clubs disestablished in 1893 Football clubs in Glasgow 1888 establishments in Scotland 1893 disestablishments in Scotland Football in West Dunbartonshire