football
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club from the town of
Camelon
Camelon (; , ) is a large settlement within the Falkirk council area, Scotland. The village is in the Forth Valley, west of Falkirk, south of Larbert and east of Bonnybridge. The main road through Camelon is the A803 road which links th ...
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Stirlingshire
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It borders Perthshir ...
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Scotland
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History
The club was formed in 1882 out of a cricket club, which took its name from the Gaelic term for a house on the Antonine wall near the town. The club entered the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1883–84, losing to
East Stirlingshire
East Stirlingshire Football Club is a Scotland, Scottish association football club based in the town of Falkirk. The club was founded in 1881 and competes in the , the fifth tier of the Scottish football league system. The club's origins can b ...
in the first round.
Tayavalla was a founder member of the Stirlingshire Football Association and played in the first
Stirlingshire Cup
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in 1883–84. The club beat the original Stenhousemuir 5–2 in the first round but lost to eventual finalists
East Stirlingshire F.C.
East Stirlingshire Football Club is a Scottish association football club based in the town of Falkirk. The club was founded in 1881 and competes in the , the fifth tier of the Scottish football league system. The club's origins can be traced ...
in the quarter-final. Tayavalla's Camelon House ground hosted the final, won by
Falkirk
Falkirk ( ; ; ) is a 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 resident population of 32,422 at the ...
in a replay.
Before the start of the 1884–85 season, the club was affected by a split, which saw a number of members form the new
Camelon
Camelon (; , ) is a large settlement within the Falkirk council area, Scotland. The village is in the Forth Valley, west of Falkirk, south of Larbert and east of Bonnybridge. The main road through Camelon is the A803 road which links th ...
club. Despite this the club won its first round tie in the
1884–85 Scottish Cup
The 1884–85 Scottish Cup – officially the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup – was the 12th season of Scotland's most prestigious Association football, football knockout competition. Renton F.C., Renton won the competition for the ...
2–1 at Stenhousemuir. However, in the second round, the club was utterly outclassed by
Yoker
Yoker () is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, located on the northern bank of the Clyde east of Clydebank, west of the city centre. The name is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic ''Eochair'' meaning a river bank.
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, losing 17–0. The club was little better off in the Stirlingshire Cup, losing 6–3 at Avondale of Campsie in the first round; although the club put in a successful protest on the basis the referee had not turned up, it decided to scratch from the competition.
Three months after its elimination from the Stirlingshire Cup, Tayavalla played Camelon for the only time; that the split had been in Camelon's favour was shown by Camelon winning 6–1. Tayavalla hosted the Stirlingshire Cup final again in 1884–85, even though Camelon was one of the clubs competing,
The last Tayavalla match was a 2–1 defeat in a friendly at King's Park in April 1885. Three of the East Stirlingshire side which beat Falkirk 8–1 in a friendly at the end of the 1884–85 season were Tayavalla players, and five of the last Tayavalla side played for East Stirlingshire against Queen's Park early in the 1885–86 season. Given that the club's home colours for 1884–85 were those of East Stirlingshire, Tayavalla had become a de facto supplementary XI for the Shire.
The club was struck off the
Scottish Football Association
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roll before the 1885–86 season for non-payment of subscriptions, ending the club's independent existence.
Colours
The club played in navy shirts and white shorts in its first season, and black and white "striped" shirts with navy shorts in its last two.
Ground
The club played home matches "within the policies" at Camelon House, by Lock 16 of the
Forth and Clyde Canal
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Notable players
*Laurie McLachlan, scorer of over 100 goals for East Stirlingshire in the 1880s, played for the club in 1884–85