Creetown Football Club is a

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club based in

Creetown Creetown (, ) is a small seaside town in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in Galloway in the Dumfries and Galloway council area in south-west Scotland. Its population is about 750 people. It is situated near the head of Wigtown Bay, west of C ...

in the

Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway (; ) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands. It is bordered by East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire to the north; Scottish Borders to the no ...

area of Scotland. Formed in 1905 as Creetown Rifle Volunteers Football Club, they adopted their present name in 1920. They originally played their home matches at Barholm Park, which had been the ground of Barholm Rovers, who went out of existence in 1905. They now play their home matches at Castlecary Park, which accommodates up to 2,000 spectators. Their strip (uniform) colours are yellow and black. For the 2009–10 season, Creetown played their home matches 12 miles away at Ballgreen Park in

Kirkcowan Kirkcowan is an area about 15 miles in length, and from nearly two to nearly seven miles in breadth, comprising 30,580 acres, of which 7000 are arable, 300 woodland and plantations, and the remainder meadow, pasture in Machars, in the historical ...

, which was the home of the now defunct Tarff Rovers, while upgrading work took place at Castlecary Park to bring the facilities up to league standards. They presently compete in the

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. Their best finish to date is second in the 2004–05 season and the 2022–23 season. In 2023, Creetown received an Entry Level License from the

Scottish Football Association The Scottish Football Association (; also known as the Scottish FA and the SFA) is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility for the control and development of football in Scotland. Members of the SFA incl ...

, allowing them to compete in the

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. They played their first game in the competition in 88 years in the preliminary round of the 2023–24 edition, hosting East of Scotland Football League First Division club Whitehill Welfare.

Honours

*Southern Counties Challenge Cup: 1984–85 *Cree Lodge Cup: 1936–37, 2003–04, 2004–05 *Dumfries and Galloway cup: 1957,1960 and 1981. *Potts Cup: 1933–34, 1934–35, 1981–82 *South League Cup: 2005–06 *Haig Gordon Memorial Trophy: 2003–04 *Tweedie Cup: 1934–35, 2002–03, 2003–04 *Wigtownshire & District Cup: 1935–36 *Wigtownshire Cup: 1934–35, 1935–36 *Wigtownshire & Kirkcudbrightshire Cup: 1933–34, 1934–35, 1937–38

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* {{coord, 54.894135, -4.383103, region:GB, display=title Football clubs in Scotland Football clubs in Dumfries and Galloway Association football clubs established in 1905 1905 establishments in Scotland South of Scotland Football League teams