| Clubname: | Dean Park |
| Fullname: | Dean Park Football Club |
| Nickname: | the Govaners[1] |
| Founded: | 1879 |
| Dissolved: | 1885 |
| Ground: | Osborne Park |
| Chrtitle: | Match Secretary |
| Chairman: | Duncan Duff, Daniel M'Intyre |
| Mgrtitle: | Hon. Secretary |
| Manager: | Alexander M'Eachan |
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| Socks1: | FF0000 |
Dean Park Football Club was a Scottish football team, based in the Govan district of Glasgow (at the time a separate burgh).
The club was founded in 1879, and in August 1883, after a season in which the club won 17 out of 24 matches,[2] was accepted as a member of the Scottish Football Association.[3]
The club entered the 1883–84 Scottish Cup and lost to Mavisbank in the first round. Dean Park protested, on the basis that the referee was a member of the Mavisbank club; the protest was dismissed, but, unusually, "under the circumstances", the Scottish FA returned the deposit to Dean Park.[4]
The club's second and last entry to the competition in 1884–85 was more successful - the club gained the benefit of a first round bye, playing a friendly against Central instead; right-winger Peter Morton scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 win, but the match was bittersweet, as it was Morton's last for the club, having agreed to join Rangers.[5] In the second round, Dean Park beat Springburn Hibernians 2–0 in a match held at Rangers' Kinning Park, Robertson scoring the first goal for Dean Park in the first minute.[6] In the third, the club earned a replay against the strong Dumbarton Athletic side with a draw at the Pilgrims ground of Copeland Park, and a Dean Park protest against an ineligible player led to the replay also being held at Govan;[7] however Athletic won 3–0 at the second time of asking.[8]
The club's membership that season was just 40, one of the smallest in Glasgow, and at the season's close the club was taken over by Govan neighbours Whitefield.[9] The name was revived for a Junior club in 1888.[10]
The club wore dark blue jerseys, white knickers, and red stockings.[11]
The club first played at Osborne Park, Summerton Road, Govan.[12] In 1884 the club moved to Woodville, on Copeland Road,[13] which was also the ground of the Telegraphists, and susceptible to flooding.[14]