Barrhead Rangers Football Club was a Scottish football club from

Barrhead Barrhead ( sco, Baurheid, gd, Ceann a' Bharra) is a town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, southwest of Glasgow city centre on the edge of the Gleniffer Braes. At the 2011 census its population was 17,268. History Barrhead was formed whe ...

East Renfrewshire East Renfrewshire ( sco, Aest Renfrewshire; gd, Siorrachd Rinn Friù an Ear) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. Until 1975, it formed part of the county of Renfrewshire for local government purposes along with the modern council areas o ...

History

The club's first recorded match was a 2–0 defeat in a friendly at

Glasgow Rangers Rangers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the Govan district of Glasgow which plays in the Scottish Premiership. Although not its official name, it is often referred to as Glasgow Rangers outside Scotland. The fo ...

in February 1875. The Rangers' first competitive football was in the first

Renfrewshire Cup The Renfrewshire Cup was an annual association football competition between teams in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. The final was generally a Renfrewshire derby contested between the two largest teams ...

in 1877–78, reaching the second round. The same season the club entered the

West of Scotland Cup The West of Scotland Cup was an association football cup competition for clubs in Scotland which were barred from the Scottish Football Association which was played in 1877–78 and 1878–79. Format The competition was a single-elimination tou ...

set up by clubs refused membership to 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 ...

for not having their own private grounds. The Rangers won through three rounds to the quarter-final, but lost 4–1 at home to eventual winners Marchtown, M'Lay scoring the Rangers goal. The club joined the SFA in September 1879, seemingly too late to be entered into the

1879–80 Scottish Cup The 1879–80 Scottish Cup – officially the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup – was the seventh season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. With 142 entrants, this season saw the largest number of teams to com ...

, as the first round had already taken place; however the club, along with some other later entrants, was put into the second round. Ironically its crosstown rivals

had already been eliminated, and Rangers took advantage, beating Renfrew Ramblers in the second round, and the Rangers were only narrowly beaten at the eventual finalists

Thornliebank Thornliebank (Scots: ''Thonliebank'', Scottish Gaelic: ''Bruach nan Dealgan'') is a suburban area in East Renfrewshire, in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. Part of the Greater Glasgow conurbation, it is located on the Auldhouse Burn about so ...

in the third, the Model Villagers scoring the only goal of the game on a breakaway with five minutes to go. In the Renfrewshire Cup that season, the Rangers beat

Abercorn Abercorn ( Gaelic: ''Obar Chùirnidh'', Old English: ''Æbbercurnig'') is a village and civil parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around west of South Queensferry. The parish had a ...

5–1, before facing another Barrhead side,

Arthurlie Arthurlie is an area of the town of Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland. History of Arthurlie The lands of Arthurlie were held in medieval times by the Stewart family, a branch of the noble Stewarts of Darnley. Later the lands became the prop ...

. The tie, before 500 spectators at Springfield, ended 1–1; it is however not clear if a replay was ever held, as there is no further reference to the Barrhead Rangers club. The club appears to have merged into Arthurlie, as its key players - M'Nab, new captain M'Cowat, and Melville, who had all played for the Renfrewshire representative side while registered with Rangers - are all recorded as playing for Arthurlie the following season. The name was revived in 1887 for a Junior club.

Colours

There is no available record of the club's colours; it joined the Scottish FA too late for inclusion in the yearbook, and was absorbed into Arthurlie before it could make a second entry.

Ground

The club's home ground was Springfield Park.

References

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