Newton Stewart Football Club are a

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club from the town of Newton Stewart in the

Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway ( sco, Dumfries an Gallowa; gd, Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland and is located in the western Southern Uplands. It covers the counties of Scotland, historic counties of ...

area of

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. Formed in 1880,as Newton Stewart Athletic but after a further two name changes they became Newton Stewart Football Club in 1902. They are nicknamed ''the Creesiders'', because the town stands on the banks of the

River Cree The River Cree is a river in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland which runs through Newton Stewart and into the Solway Firth. It forms part of the boundary between the counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire. The tributaries of the Cree are ...

. They compete in the South of Scotland Football League, which they have won on three occasions and finished 2nd in the 2014–15 season. Home matches are played at Blairmount Park, which holds around 1,500 spectators. There was a stand at the ground at one stage, but this was demolished due to being unsafe, leaving Blairmount Park a fairly open and undeveloped football venue which has recently been converted into an all-weather 4G surface. Newton Stewart won their first trophy for 13 years in 2014-15 after defeating local rivals Wigtown & Bladnoch 2–1 in the J. Haig Gordon Cup Final. They then followed that by beating Mid-Annandale 4–0 in the final of the Potts Cup to claim their second trophy of the season. The club ended the season with a cup double which has been their most successful season for many years. The Club captured the South of Scotland League Cup in 2016-17 after a penalty shoot out win in the Final against Threave Rovers at St Marys Park, Kircudbright. Newton Stewart's strip (uniform) colours are black and white stripes. As a full member of the

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, the club can play in the

Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,South of Scotland Football League: **Winners (3) : 1950–51, 1955–56, 1987–88

Cup

*Southern Counties Challenge Cup: 1948–49, 1950–51, 1955–56, 1958–59, 1962–63, 1983–84 *Cree Lodge Cup: 1921–22, 1923–24, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1948–49, 1961–62, 1963–64 *J. Haig Gordon Cup: 2014–15 *Potts Cup: 1951–52, 1952–53, 1961–62, 1987–88, 2014–15 *Tweedie Cup: 1905–06, 1906–07, 1926–27, 1991–92, 2021-22 *South of Scotland League Cup: 1950–51, 1958–59, 1985–86, 2000–01 2016-17 *Wigtownshire & District Cup: 1905–06, 1919–20, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1929–30, 1961–62 *Wigtownshire Cup: 1902–03, 1903–04, 1908–09, 1911–12, 1913–14, 1921–22, 1925–26, 1950–51, 1967–68 *Wigtownshire & Kirkcudbrightshire Cup: 1948–49, 1950–51 *South Supplementary Cup: 1955–56 *South of Scotland Cup: 1923–24, 1924–25 *Candida Casa Cup: 1910–11, 1912–13 *Dumfries & Galloway Cup: 1906–07

References

External links

Official website
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