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ground in
Johnstone
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,
Scotland
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Johnstone F.C.
Johnstone Football Club was a football club based at Newfield Park in Johnstone, Renfrewshire in Scotland. The club was a member of the Scottish Football League in two spells between 1912 and 1926.
History
The club was formed in 1878 and in ...
from 1894 until the club folded in 1927.
History
Johnstone moved to Newfield Park in 1894, a site located directly to the north of
Newfield railway station
Johnstone North railway station was a railway station serving the town of Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland as part of the Dalry and North Johnstone Line on the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
History
The station opened on 1 June 1905.Bu ...
. The facilities initially consisted of a pavilion at the eastern end of the ground, but by 1912 a stand had been erected on the southern side of the pitch and a new pavilion in the south-west corner of the ground.Paul Smith & Shirley Smith (2005) ''The Ultimate Directory of English & Scottish Football League Grounds Second Edition 1888–2005'', Yore Publications, p205 In 1912 the club were admitted to Division Two of the
Scottish Football League
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, and the first SFL match was played at the ground on 24 August 1912, a 2–1 win over
Dumbarton
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Dumbarton was the ca ...
.
The probable record attendance of 7,000 was set for a
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Falkirk
Falkirk ( gd, An Eaglais Bhreac, sco, Fawkirk) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow.
Falkirk had a ...
on 27 January 1923, with the visitors winning 1–0. The club dropped out of the SFL when Division Three was disbanded at the end of the 1925–26 season, with the final SFL match at Newfield Park being a 3–2 defeat to
Brechin City
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on 10 April 1926.
Although Johnstone folded the following year, the ground continued to be used until it was eventually demolished to make way for the A737 bypass.