Addiewell Football Club was a Scottish senior football club from the village of
Addiewell
Addiewell ( sco, Aidieswall, gd, Tobar Adaidh) is a former mining village in the Scottish council area of West Lothian. Historically it lies within the County of Midlothian. A new prison, HMP Addiewell, opened in 2008.
There are two separate ...
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Midlothian
Midlothian (; gd, Meadhan Lodainn) is a historic county, registration county, lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government. Midlothian lies in the east- central Lowlands, bordering the City of Edinbur ...
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History
The club was founded in 1880. Its first recorded match was an 8–0 defeat to the
Shotts
Shotts is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located almost halfway between Glasgow () and Edinburgh (). The village has a population of about 8,840. A local story has Shotts being named after the legendary giant highwayman Bertram de ...
reserve XI, and its first competitive football came in the Edinburgh Shield that September, with a 7–1 defeat to Burntisland Thistle.
The club did improve over the season, and won 6 of 12 matches, but one of the defeats was by 8 goals to 1 at home to the closest club
West Calder
West Calder ( sco, Wast Cauder, gd, Caladar an Iar) is a village in the council area of West Lothian, Scotland, located four miles west of Livingston. Historically it is within the County of Midlothian. The village was an important centre in t ...
, which, although with fewer members, had more experience of the game. Addiewell nevertheless joined the
Scottish Football Association
The Scottish Football Association (also known as the SFA and the Scottish FA; sco, Scots Fitba Association; Scottish Gaelic: ''Comann Ball-coise na h-Alba'') is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility fo ...
, at the same time as West Calder, in time to enter the
1881–82 Scottish Cup
The 1881–82 Scottish Cup – officially the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup – was the ninth season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. A total of 147 teams entered the competition, five more than the previ ...
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Addiewell was unlucky with its first round draw, having to face Hibernian away. The clubs played their tie in advance of the other scheduled ties, probably to "lock in" the Hibernian players for the competition, and Hibs won 7–0. The club also lost in the first round of the Edinburgh Shield, to West Calder, 1–0; an Addiewell protest that it had wrongly been denied a goal was dismissed.
1882–83 was the club's final season of senior football. It walked over serial withdrawers Dunfermline in the first round of the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Heart of Midlothian, beat St Lennox Zebras in the Edinburgh Shield for its first competitive win. Unfortunately, the club had scheduled its conversazione - the term for an annual celebration - on the eve of the Hearts tie, resulting in a "poor muster of the first eleven"; only four regular first-team players - not including the captain - were in a fit state to play. The consequence is that Hearts ran up 14 goals without reply.
Addiewell at least reached the third round of the Edinburgh Shield, having to beat Mossend Swifts twice after a protest, but went down 8–0 to St Bernards in the third.
Addiewell left the Scottish FA before the 1883–84 season, but was active until 1885–86, albeit in October 1885 the club's conversazione "was not nearly so large as on earlier occasions" and indeed it does not seem to have played after the 1884–85 season.
Colours
The club wore white jerseys and "pants", with red stockings.
Ground
The club's ground was at Cuthill Park, 2 miles from the nearest railway station.