Scone Thistle Football Club are a Scottish junior football club based in

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Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland an ...

. Their home ground is Farquharson Park and club colours are black and red.

History

The club was founded in 1882 making it the third oldest football club in Perthshire and oldest Perthshire Junior football club. They played in the Perthshire Junior leagues up until the outbreak of

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. In the early 1960s the ''Jags'' became members of the Perthshire Juvenile Football Association (Juvenile football in Scotland was football played by adult players up to the age of 27). The club were to remain in Juvenile football until 1983 as following the successful winning of the Scottish Juvenile Cup that year the club returned to the ranks of Junior football. Up until the end of the 2005–06 season, they played in the Tayside Premier League of the

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where they won the Tayside JFA Division One title in season 1994–95, the East Region Tayside Division One in 2002–03 and the Tayside League Cup in 2005–06. The SJFA restructured prior to the 2006–07 season, and Thistle found themselves in the twelve-team East Region Premier League. They were relegated to the East Region Central Division. In April 2012 it was announced that Scone Thistle were returning to the Scottish Junior East Region League after they spent the 2011–12 season in abeyance.

Management

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– Charlie King *Assistant – Drew Fleming *

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– Andy McKinnie *First Aid – Eric Duff

References

External links

Scone Thistle F.C. Official Website

Scone Thistle F.C. Official Twitter Account
1882 establishments in Scotland Association football clubs established in 1882 Football clubs in Scotland Scottish Junior Football Association clubs Football clubs in Perth and Kinross {{Scotland-footyclub-stub