Fullname: | Dumfries |
Clubname: | Dumfries Football Club |
Founded: | 1869 |
Dissolved: | 1877 |
Ground: | Dock Park |
Chrtitle: | Secretary |
Chairman: | William Kennedy[1] |
Pattern La1: | _redwhitehoops |
Pattern B1: | _redwhitehoops |
Pattern Ra1: | _redwhitehoops |
Pattern So1: | _hoops_red_white |
Leftarm1: | 4169E1 |
Body1: | 4169E1 |
Rightarm1: | 4169E1 |
Socks1: | 4169E1 |
Dumfries Football Club was an association football club from Dumfries, Scotland.
The club was one of the first clubs founded in Scotland; the only other Borders club older than the Dumfries club was the Annan (N.B.) club formed in December 1867.[2]
Dumfries was founded in October 1869 as a rugby union club, but changed to association rules in 1870.[3] The club however switched back to rugby union in 1877;[4] the club's final reported association match was a 2–0 defeat to Maybole in October 1877.[5]
The name was used by at least two other senior other clubs later, the next existing from 1889 to 1892, and the third merging into Queen of the South F.C.; and a more recent junior club now called Heston Rovers.
The club's colours were red, white, and blue, probably in hoops as that was the dominant style of the day.[6]
The club played at Dock Park, five minutes from the railway station.[7]