Colville Park E Amateur Football Club is a Scottish amateur football club based in

Motherwell Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lana ...

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. In 2016 they competed in the

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, and repeated this feat in 2017 and 2019. The team colours are white and blue.

Club history

The football club was founded in 1968 as Colvilles AFC, a

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for

Ravenscraig Ravenscraig is a village and new town, located in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, around 1½ miles east of Motherwell. Ravenscraig was formerly the site of Ravenscraig steelworks; once the largest hot strip steel mill in western Europe, the stee ...

and other steelworking facilities owned by

David Colville & Sons David Colville & Sons, a Scottish iron and steel company, was founded in 1871 and it opened its Dalzell Steel and Iron Works at Motherwell in 1872. By the first World War, it was the largest steel works in Scotland and it continued to expanded ...

. They soon adjusted their membership to include players outwith the steel industry. The club badge still incorporates the logo of British Steel. Coville Park were initially part of the Lanarkshire Amateur Football Association, during which time they won the Scottish Amateur Cup in 1976. In 1990 they aligned to the

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where they have remained since. In February 2017, disputes between the country club and the football team management led to a separation of the entities. The team relocated their social base to the Electric Bar in the Airbles area of Motherwell, subsequently adding 'E' to the club name in recognition of the support received from the establishment.

Location

From their formation, Colville Park AFC were based at Colville Park Country Club, which is within the

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former country

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on the northern edge of Motherwell. It was owned by the Colville family who operated the steelworks in the area and donated the lands to the people of the town. The

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featuring a

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and

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s was established in 1923. A new club house with modern facilities was constructed in the 1960s. Following the 2017 split, matches are now played at

Dalziel Park Dalziel Park is an area located between the villages of Carfin, Cleland and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Other nearby settlements include the large town of Motherwell and the new town of Ravenscraig. The area consists of a resi ...

between the villages of

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and

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on the outskirts of the town.

Recent performance

Colville Park were finalists in the Scottish Amateur Cup in 2012 2013 and 2014 before finally winning it in 2016 in the final at

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against Kingdom Caledonian League side Leven United from

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, the goalscorers being Liam Cusack and

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. They have also been winners and runners-up in the West of Scotland Amateur Cup on several occasions. In 2017, Colville Park retained the Scottish Amateur Cup after beating Southside AFC of Glasgow 1–0 in the Hampden final, thus qualifying for the Scottish Cup again in 2017–18. They also retained the Central Scottish AFL Premier title. In 2018, the club were unsuccessful in the Scottish Cup but did win both the CSAFL title and the West of Scotland Amateur Cup.West Of Scotland Amateur Cup Final 2018 Programme
,

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They retained the league title in 2019. In May 2019, Colville Park defeated fellow CSAFL team Eastfield AFC (from

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; gd, Comar nan Allt, meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated ...

) 2–0 to win the Scottish Amateur Cup for the third time in four seasons.

Scottish Cup

2016–17

The club's victory in the 2016 Scottish Amateur Cup permitted Colville Park to enter the

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. In Preliminary round 1 they overcame Edusport Academy of the

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after a replay; it was the first time that an

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side had progressed in the national tournament (this being only the second year of being invited to compete). However, in preliminary round 2 they were defeated by

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– the same team who had beaten the previous year's Amateur entrants Harestanes. Colville Park's 'home' matches were played at New Tinto Park in

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, the newly built ground of Junior club

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, due to their own basic facilities in Motherwell being unsuitable for staging Scottish Cup fixtures.

2017–18

Winning the 2017 Scottish Amateur Cup again allowed Colville Park to enter the senior Scottish Cup in 2017–18. After defeating

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sides

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(7–0) and

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(5–0) in the preliminary rounds, they overcame

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team Cumbernauld Colts by a 2–1 scoreline (again played at New Tinto Park in Glasgow). In Round 2, Coville Park lost 9–0 to

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in their first ever meeting with an SPFL club.

2019–20

The club entered the senior Scottish Cup again in 2019–20 as winners of the 2019 Scottish Amateur Cup. However this time their run was very brief, with a 4–0 defeat (nominally at home but again played at New Tinto Park, Glasgow) to East of Scotland League side Whitehill Welfare in the First Preliminary round, failing to score despite the opposition using an outfield player in goals with their regular goalkeepers unavailable.Match Report: Colville Park 0–4 Whitehill Welfare
,

Whitehill Welfare F.C. Whitehill Welfare Football Club is a football club based in the village of Rosewell, Midlothian, Scotland. They are members of the East of Scotland Football League and play their home matches at Ferguson Park. The club was founded in 1953 and ...

, 18 August 2019

References

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