Southfield Rangers Football Club was a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

club based in the village of

Slamannan Slamannan ( gd, Sliabh Mhanainn) is a village in the south of the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. It is south-west of Falkirk, east of Cumbernauld and north-east of Airdrie. Slamannan is located at the cross of the B803 and B8022 ...

Stirlingshire Stirlingshire or the County of Stirling, gd, Siorrachd Sruighlea) is a historic county and registration countyRegisters of Scotland. Publications, leaflets, Land Register Counties. of Scotland. Its county town is Stirling. It borders Perth ...

History

The club from the village of

was founded in 1888, taking its name from Southfield Colliery Row in the village. Its first match was an 8–2 victory over Redding Athletic in April. A return match the following February ended in tragedy as Athletic's Robert Whyte suffered an injury in the match that resulted in his death three days later. The club's first competitive football came in the 1889–90

Stirlingshire Cup The Stirlingshire Cup is an association football cup competition for clubs in the county of Stirlingshire, Scotland. The competition was founded in 1883 and is contested annually by senior member clubs of the Stirlingshire Football Association. Th ...

; the club drew 2–2 with

Dunipace Dunipace is a village in the west of the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is south of Stirling and north-west of Falkirk. The village is situated on the north bank of the River Carron and adjoins the town of Denny, to the south of ...

at home in the first round, but lost heavily away. By March 1890, however, the club won 11 of 18 matches, and the season finished on a high, as the Rangers beat a scratch

Falkirk Falkirk ( gd, An Eaglais Bhreac, sco, Fawkirk) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow. Falkirk had a ...

4–2, and the club even picked up some silverware; the Rangers won the inaugural Slamannan Charity Cup, beating Slamannan Rovers 4–3 in the final, scoring 2 goals in 2 minutes in the first half, after a 3–3 draw at Barnsmuir. In August 1890, the club joined the

Scottish Football Association The Scottish Football Association (also known as the SFA and the Scottish FA; sco, Scots Fitba Association; Scottish Gaelic: ''Comann Ball-coise na h-Alba'') is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility fo ...

. It made its

Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Bridge of Allan Bridge of Allan ( sco, Brig Allan, gd, Drochaid Ailein), also known colloquially as ''Bofa'', is a town in the Stirling council area in Scotland, just north of the city of Stirling. Overlooked by the National Wallace Monument, it lies on the ...

the next month, the match being played at Forthbank as the Bridge of Allan ground was not ready. Surprisingly the Rangers were heavily defeated, by 7 goals to 2, and the club disappeared after a 5–1 defeat at

Stenhousemuir Stenhousemuir (; gd, Featha Thaigh nan Clach) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies within the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The town is north-northwest of Falkirk and directly adjoins to Larbert in the west, where the nea ...

in the Stirlingshire Cup.

Colours

The club's colours were amber and black.

Ground

The club played at the Townhead ground, which held 700 as a neutral ground for a cup tie between rivals

Slamannan F.C. Slamannan Football Club was a Scottish association football club based in the village of Slamannan, Stirlingshire. History The club was founded in 1886, and was made up entirely of miners. The club competed in the Scottish Cup for five seas ...

and Slamannan Rovers in 1890.

References

{{Defunct Scottish football clubs, state=collapsed Defunct football clubs in Scotland Association football clubs established in 1888 1888 establishments in Scotland Association football clubs disestablished in 1891 1891 disestablishments in Scotland Football in Falkirk (council area)