| Clubname: | Dunbar Town |
| Fullname: | Dunbar Town Football Club |
| Founded: | 1936 |
| Dissolved: | 1939 |
| Ground: | Laundry Park |
| Chrtitle: | President |
| Mgrtitle: | Player-manager |
| Manager: | James Sked[1] |
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| Pattern B1: | _red_stripes |
| Pattern Ra1: | _red_stripes |
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Dunbar Town F.C. was a short-lived senior association football club from Dunbar in East Lothian.
The club played under the purview of the Berwickshire Association in its first season, but withdrew before the season's end,[2] in order to join the East of Scotland League in 1937.[3] The club's first match in the competition was a disastrous 11–2 defeat to Peebles Rovers.[4] The Town however quickly recovered, and finished the season mid-table, although helped by a number of teams not completing the season.
The 1938–39 League season saw the club win more matches than it lost, finishing in the upper mid-table.[5] However it had less success in Cup competitions; it lost in the preliminary round of the East of Scotland Qualifying Cup in both 1937–38 and 1938–39, the former after a replay against reigning East of Scotland League champions Jed Arts; the club's draw in the original game was considered a major shock, as Dunbar arrived with only seven players, and relied on a reserve plus three local volunteers to make up the numbers.[6] It also lost in the first round of the King Cup in the same seasons.[7]
The club joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1938,[8] in time to enter the 1938–39 Scottish Qualifying Cup, and beat Coldstream 4–3 in the first round, nearly throwing away a four-goal lead.[9] In the second, Town lost 3–1 at Berwick Rangers, a result which put the Wee Gers into the first round proper;[10] the match came three weeks after Rangers had beaten Town in the East of Scotland Cup.[11]
The club had always struggled to attract crowds,[12] and having gone into abeyance for the Second World War, did not re-emerge after it. The club's last game had been the first of the aborted 1939–40 East of Scotland League season - a 2–1 defeat at Bo'ness after conceding a late penalty.[13]
The club wore red and white jerseys.[14]
The club played at Laundry Park,[15] on Spott Road.[16]
James Sked, the club's coach and left-half, had been a reserve player at Heart of Midlothian, and had played for Peebles Rovers and Penicuik Athletic.[17]