Clachnacuddin Football Club is a part-time, senior Scottish

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club based in the city of

Inverness Inverness (; ; from the , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness") is a city in the Scottish Highlands, having been granted city status in 2000. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highland ...

, that currently plays in the . Clachnacuddin have won the most

Highland Football League The Scottish Highland Football League (SHFL, commonly known as the Highland League) is a senior football league based in the north of Scotland. The league sits at level 5 on the Scottish football league system, acting as a feeder to the Scott ...

championships in the competition's history: a total of 18, a title shared with, now defunct side, Caledonian. Their home ground is Grant Street Park in the city's

Merkinch Merkinch (from the Scottish Gaelic: ''Marc-Innis'', meaning "The Horse Island") is an area of the city of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Originally an island separated from the rest of the city by a small river to the south known as The A ...

area.Clachnacuddin: The fire-hit football club longing to return home
BBC Scotland News, 31 January 2020 They also have a youth system, with many teams ranging from the primary squads to the under 19s. The club operates a

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in the

North Caledonian Football League The North Caledonian Football Association is a senior football association operating throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and is a recognised body of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) and as such has its senior football competit ...

, which they rejoined in

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after withdrawing at the start of the 2014–15 season. They were founded in 1885 and are nicknamed "The Lilywhites" (due to their white strip) or "Clach". Their name is an English approximation of a

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name meaning "the stone of the tub", referring to a city landmark in Inverness. As a full member of the

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, they are entitled to enter the

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area of

since the ground opened in 1886. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 3,000 spectators. On 23 May 1988 a major fire destroyed Grant Street's wooden grandstand with vandalism blamed. On the morning of Christmas Eve 2019, a fire broke out in the kit room due to an electrical fault in a tumble drier. As a result, Clachnacuddin's home game against Formartine United was called off. Following this incident, Clach were put into a temporary groundshare with

Highland RFC Highland Rugby Football Club is a rugby union amateur club from the city of Inverness that compete in the . They have a number of teams taken from different age groups including micros and minis, S1 and S2, Under-15, Under-16, Under-18 and senior ...

at Canal Park, in the

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area of Inverness. File:Grantstreetparkinverness.jpg File:Clachnacuddin Football Club ground.JPG

Honours

Scottish Highland League
Scottish Football Historical Archive, 2 January 2021 **Champions: 1894–95, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1900–01, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1904–05, 1905–06, 1907–08, 1911–12, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1974–75, 2003–04 *

Highland League Cup The Highland League Cup is a knock-out tournament contested since 1946 by football clubs in the Highland Football League The Scottish Highland Football League (SHFL, commonly known as the Highland League) is a senior football league based in ...

**Winners: 1947–48, 1950–51, 1981–82, 2003–04, 2013–14 *

North of Scotland Cup The North of Scotland Cup is a knock-out tournament, knock-out tournament for association football, football teams in membership of the North of Scotland Football Association. The teams involved are based in the Highland, Highlands and Moray an ...

**Winners: 1894–95, 1895–96, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1922–23, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1964–65, 1979–80, 1992–93, 2001–02 *

Inverness Cup The Inverness Cup is a football competition for teams around Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Originally, it was contested by the four Inverness based teams: Caledonian, Citadel, Clachnacuddin and Thistle, but became an invitational tourna ...

**Winners: 1897–98, 1900–01 1903–04, 1904–05, 1906–07, 1909–10, 1919–20, 1921–22, 1923–24, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1936–37, 1951–52, 1952–53 * Scottish Qualifying Cup (North) **Winners: 1934–35, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1974–75, 1998–99 *Bells Cup **Winners: 1977–78 *Inverness Charity CupInverness Charity Cup
Scottish Football Historical Archive, 6 July 2020 **Winners: 1896–97, 1897–98, 1903–04, 1904–05, 1920–21, 1927–28, 1932–33, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1948–49 *Elginshire Charity Cup
Scottish Football Historical Archive, 14 July 2020 **Winners: 1896–97, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1905–06 *Inverness Sports Bed Cup **Winners: 1937–38

Club records

* Record

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: 8,850 vs

St Johnstone St Johnstone Football Club is a professional association football club in Perth, Scotland. The team competes in the , the second division of Scottish football. The club's name is derived from St John's Toun (or Saint Johnstoun)—an old name o ...

, 17 January 1948

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