| Clubname: | Dumbreck |
| Fullname: | Dumbreck Football Club |
| Nickname: | The South Side Club[1] |
| Founded: | 1871 |
| Dissolved: | 1877 |
| Ground: | Middleton Park,[2] Ibroxhill |
| Owntitle: | Secretary |
| Owner: | William Turnbull |
| Leftarm1: | 0000FF |
| Body1: | 0000FF |
| Rightarm1: | 0000FF |
| Socks1: | FF0000 |
Dumbreck Football Club was a 19th-century association football club based in Glasgow.
The club was formed in 1872[3] out of the Dumbreck Cricket Club[4] and was one of the eight founder members of the Scottish Football Association.[5] Its earliest recorded matches were against the Clydesdale club in early 1873.[6]
Dumbreck was the opposition for Queen's Park on 25 October 1873 for the first match played at the first Hampden Park.[7] It was also the first match in which Queen's Park wore its iconic black and white hooped jerseys.[8]
Dumbreck entered Scottish Cup tournaments between 1873–74 and 1877–78, [9] the club's best run coming in 1875–76, when it reached the quarter-finals (last 7). The club was unlucky to draw the dominant Queen's Park at that stage and lost 2–0; the club protested after the match about one of the Queen's Park goals. One noteworthy factor was that the Dumbreck goalkeeper M'Geoch was a pioneer in drop-kicking the ball, rather than kicking it from dead, which was considered at the time to generate greater distance.[10]
Although the club was active in the Scottish FA committees until 1877, and (with 75 members in 1876) was on a par with Rangers, the club disappeared before the 1877–78 season. It withdrew from the Scottish Cup rather than face the new Shawfield club[11] [12] having resolved not to play any more fixtures.[13]
Dumbreck played in blue shirts with white shorts, with scarlet stockings in 1873 and black and white stockings in 1874.[14] [15]