Port Glasgow F.C.

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Port Glasgow F.C.
Full name Port Glasgow Football Club
Nickname(s) The Undertakers
Founded 1948
Ground Port Glasgow Community Stadium
Parklea
Port Glasgow
Manager Craig Brown
League SJFA Central District Second Division
2014–15 6th
Website Club home page

The Port Glasgow Juniors Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in the town of Port Glasgow, Inverclyde.

Nicknamed the Undertakers, they were formed as Port Glasgow Athletic Juveniles F.C.' in 1948 as an offshoot of Clune Rock Juveniles. They stepped up to the Junior ranks a year later and obtained a place in the Central Junior Football League. They are not related to the pre-War Port Glasgow Athletic Juniors who disbanded in 1938.

Their first ground was Woodhall Park, Port Glasgow where they played until being evicted by the local council in 2000 to make way for an industrial development, which has not transpired. They then groundshared with local rivals Greenock Juniors at both Ravenscraig Stadium and Battery Park, while Ravenscraig was redeveloped for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[1] The club returned to Port Glasgow in 2012 at a new £4.4 million community stadium at Parklea.[2]

Currently playing in the West Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they wear white striped uniforms with a black trim.

An unrelated senior club, also called Port Glasgow F.C. (1876–1879), participated in the early Scottish Cup seasons.

Honours

  • Central League A Division winners: 1978–79
  • Central League C Division winners: 1975–76
  • Central Division Two winners: 1999–2000
  • Glasgow Dryburgh Cup: 1957–58
  • Evening Times Cup Winners Cup: 1999–2000
  • Central League Division 1 winners : 2007–2008

References

  1. Greenock stadium to get £17 million upgrade stv.tv 14 March 2009
  2. £1m double sport boost greenocktelegraph.co.uk 10 March 2011

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