Fraserburgh Football Club is a senior

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club based in

Fraserburgh Fraserburgh (; ), locally known as the Broch, is a town in Aberdeenshire (unitary), Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with a population recorded in the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census as 13,100. It lies in Buchan in the northeastern corner of th ...

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. The fishing port is known locally as 'The Broch' hence the club nickname. They currently play in the in

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and also enter the annual

Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Bellslea Park Bellslea Park is a football ground in Fraserburgh in north-east Scotland, which is the home ground of Highland Football League side Fraserburgh. It is located on Seaforth Street in the centre of the town and has a capacity of 3,000 with 480 seate ...

. Prior to 1910, they played as a select side made up of the best players from the local amateur league. The club's colours (consisting of black and white stripes) were acquired from a local fish merchant who had links with

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, and the tradition has since been kept, with the traditional away kit consisting of a sky blue shirt, white shorts and sky blue socks. Fraserburgh's first ever match was an away tie in the

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against rivals

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, which Fraserburgh won 3–1. In their first season they went on to win the

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, defeating Buckie Thistle at

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. They were granted admission into the

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in 1921 and up until that time they competed in the

and

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, one of the top clubs in Scotland at the time, 1–0 at

Bellslea Park Bellslea Park is a football ground in Fraserburgh in north-east Scotland, which is the home ground of Highland Football League side Fraserburgh. It is located on Seaforth Street in the centre of the town and has a capacity of 3,000 with 480 seate ...

. This is widely regarded as the biggest ever 'giant killing' shock in the Scottish Cup. On 21 January 1970, the Fraserburgh lifeboat ''The Duchess of Kent'' was lost, being turned over by a freak wave approximately from Fraserburgh while trying to escort the Danish fishing vessel ''Opal'' to safety. Only one of the six crew members survived. After the disaster,

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took his

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side to the Broch for a fundraising game, which Fraserburgh lost 7–0. Another one of Fraserburgh's most memorable games was a 10–0 victory away to local rivals Peterhead in the Highland League Cup on 14 August 1974. They have always had a rivalry with

but as Peterhead got promoted into the Scottish league the rivalry has wavered somewhat. During 1984, Charlie Duncan was named new manager due to Brian McCann's departure; he eventually went on to manage his 1,000th game in charge during October 2009 in a Scottish Cup tie against Bonnyrigg Rose. Duncan's tenure brought huge success to the club; becoming champions for only the third time in the club's history, winning the Highland League Cup for the first time in 47 years, the two Qualifying Cup wins in 1995–96 and 2006–07, as well as an Aberdeenshire Cup in 1996 and five Aberdeenshire Shield wins – 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1999. Duncan's tenure ended when he was sacked from the club in July 2011, after an eventful 27 years at the helm. Fraserburgh are now the permanent holders of the Qualifying Cup (North), as they won the last competition at

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, Banff when they beat Keith 2–1 in November 2006, with goals from Marc Dickson and Michael Stephen. The club has progressed to the fourth round (last 32) of the

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3–0. And in January 2025 they lost 5-0 at Ibrox, again to Rangers. In 2022 Fraserburgh secured their fourth Highland League title – their first for 20 years. As champions, Fraserburgh progressed to the Pyramid Play-offs where they played

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; losing 3–1 away and winning 1–0 at Bellslea, thus losing 3–2 on aggregate. Also as a result of being Highland League champions, Fraserburgh qualified for the

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, being drawn in Group B with

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, Montrose,

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, and

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Stadium

The club's home ground is

. The capacity is 3,000 and the stand can hold 480 people.

Honours

: 1932–33, 1937–38, 2001–02, 2021–22 *

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: 1958–59, 2005–06 *

: 1910–11, 1937–38, 1955–56, 1963–64,

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, 1975–76, 1996–97,

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, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2019–20,

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: 1991–92, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2019–20,

, 2024–25 * Scottish Qualifying Cup (North): 1957–58, 1995–96, 2006–07 *

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: 1922–23, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1937–38, 1950–51, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98,

, 2024–25 * Bells Cup (East):

, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79

References

External links

Official website
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