Annbank United Football Club are a Scottish

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club from

Annbank Annbank is a village in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is around five miles east of Ayr. Originally a mining settlement, it once had a rail link to Ayr via the Auchincruive Waggonway. The village has a village hall, bakery, shop, bowling green, j ...

South Ayrshire South Ayrshire ( sco, Sooth Ayrshire; gd, Siorrachd Àir a Deas, ) is one of thirty-two council areas of Scotland, covering the southern part of Ayrshire. It borders onto Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire. On 30 June 2 ...

. Formed in 1939, they are based at New Pebble Park and are nicknamed "The Bankies". Prior to abeyance, they competed in the and wear black and white strips (uniforms). The club reached the final of the 1952–53

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, losing 1–0 to

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in front of 55,800 spectators at

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. Annbank had required thirteen matches to negotiate the seven rounds to the final. In June 2016, Annbank appointed Graeme Neil and Tom Robertson of the

Ayr United Ayr United Football Club are a football club in Ayr, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League. Formed in 1910 by the merger of Ayr Parkhouse and Ayr F.C., their nickname is ...

Football Academy as their new management team. The duo had worked the previous season at Lugar Boswell Thistle, bringing Ayr's pro-youth players into an adult game environment. On 14 May 2021 Annbank announced on their Twitter account that they would suspend their participation in the newly formed West of Scotland Football League for season 2021-22 whilst retaining full membership, but hoped to return in the next season. In the interim, the club started in the Ayrshire Amateur Division 2A (Winners 2021/22) & are now in Division 1A for Season 2022/23. They continue to play out of New Pebble Park.

Honours

runners-up: 1952–53 * Ayrshire Second Division winners: 1989–90 * Western League (Southern) winners: 1948–49 * Ayrshire (Ayrshire Weekly Press) Cup winners: 1940–41, 1943–44, 1945–46 * Ayrshire League (Rockware Glass) Cup winners: 1987–88 * Kyle & Carrick Cup winners: 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1992–93 * South Ayrshire Cup winners: 1997–98 * Ayrshire Super Cup winners: 1987–88 * Western League Cup winners: 1942–43, 1943–44 * Ayrshire Consolation Cup winners: 1951–52, 1955–56 * Irvine & District Cup winners: 1943–44 * Moore Trophy: 1954–55 * Vernon Cup winners: 1951–52, 1955–56 *Henderson Memorial Shield:1956 (shared with Dwinethorpe Rovers) *Ferguson Invitational: 1970 *Vietnam Mid-Autumn Cup:1985

References

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