Inverness Thistle F.C.
Inverness Thistle Football Club was a football (soccer), football club playing in the city of Inverness in northern Scotland. Formation and timeline They were members of the Highland Football League, winning the championship eight times, including its inaugural season: 1893–94. They set a postwar record for the heaviest scoring in a Highland League season, with 124 goals (an average of 4.13 per game) in the 1969–70 season, which stood for 45 years before being beaten in 2015 by Brora Rangers F.C., Brora Rangers. They wore black and red stripes and played their home games at Kingsmills Park. Like many clubs featuring the name "Thistle", they were often known as ''the Jags''. Thistle applied for membership of the Scottish Football League for the 1973–74 season, but the club lost out to Ferranti Thistle F.C., Ferranti Thistle by one vote. It was felt that this was due to clubs in the Central Belt being unwilling to travel to Inverness. They occasionally qualified for th ...
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Kingsmills
Kingsmills Park was a association football, football stadium, ground in Inverness, Scotland. It was the home ground of Inverness Thistle F.C. Following the merger of Inverness Thistle with Caledonian F.C. in 1994, the new team played at Caledonian's ground, Telford Street Park. In 1996 the club moved to the newly built Caledonian Stadium. A care home currently sits upon the location of the former ground. References

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