Shettleston F.C.

Shettleston

Full name	Shettleston Juniors Football & Athletic Club
Nickname(s)	The Town
Founded	1903
Ground	Greenfield Park, Old Shettleston Road, Glasgow
Co-managers	Peter Weatherson & Ryan McStay
League	West of Scotland Super League First Division
2015–16	West of Scotland Super League Premier Division, 10th (relegated via play-off)

Shettleston Football Club are a Scottish football club based in Shettleston, in the East End of Glasgow. Nicknamed the Town, they were formed in 1903 and are based at Greenfield Park. The club play in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region and are currently in the West of Scotland Super League First Division.

Shettleston reached the final of the 1958–59 Scottish Junior Cup, losing 2–1 to Irvine Meadow in front of a crowd of 65,211 fans at Hampden Park.^[1] Their fortunes have been mixed in recent years, flitting between the various divisions of the league they have been based in, although they managed to reach the semi-finals of the Scottish Junior Cup in 2000–01, and the quarter-finals of the same competition in 2001–02 and 2014–15.

The club appointed a team management duo of Peter Weatherson and Ryan McStay in March 2016 and the pair assumed their role for the beginning of the 2016–17 season, replacing caretaker manager Reon Juskowiak.^[2][3]

Honours

Scottish Junior Cup

• Runners-up: 1958–59

Other Honours

• West Super First Division : Runners-up : 2014–15 (Promoted)
• West of Scotland Cup winners: 1974–75, 1992–93, 1994–95
• Glasgow League winners: 1923–24, 1926–27
• Central League A Division winners: 1976–77
• Central Division One winners: 1985–86, 1998–99, 2001–02
• Glasgow Junior Cup: 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1967–68
• Central League Cup: 1954–55, 1972–73, 2001–02
• Central Sectional League Cup: 1969–70, 1976–77, 1979–80
• Glasgow Junior Consolation Cup: 1925–26, 1937–38
• Glasgow North-Eastern Cup: 1936–37, 1959–60, 1960–61
• Erskine Hospital Charity Cup: 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86
• Glasgow Junior Charity Cup: 1929–30, 1937–38, 1956–57
• Glasgow Eastern Charity Cup: 1926–27, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1959–60

Current Playing Squad

As of 24 July 2015^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player DF Robert Campbell DF Ross Dickson DF Richard McIntosh

No. Position Player MF Jordan Dalzell MF Ryan Scott

Staff

• Coach: Steven Hutcheson
• Sports Therapist: John Paul Murray
• Directors:
  • Alan Aitkenhead
  • Leslie Turnbull
  • Philip Cox

Notable former players

• Bill Gorman
• A. Scott Duncan
• Bob Connelly
• Bobby Russell
• Ernie Merrick
• Tommy Docherty
• John Wheatley

Campbell Forsyth, the Kilmarnock and Scotland international goalkeeper played for Shettleston before joining St Mirren in 1955.^[5]

Notable Assistant Coach

• Tommy Coyne

References

1. "Memories of Irvine Meadow's first cup win". Daily Record. 17 December 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
2. Holmes, Jeff (4 March 2016). "Annan duo Weatherson and McStay join Shettleston management team". Evening Times. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
3. O'Donnell, Jim (15 August 2016). "All change at Shettleston as player-manager Peter Weatherston takes centre stage". Evening Times. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
4. "Players and management". Shettleston F.C. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
5. Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (2003). In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology Publishing. p. 512. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.

External links

• Aggregated Social Media Feeds for Shettleston Juniors FC