Tranent Juniors Football Club are a

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club based in the town of

Tranent Tranent is a town in East Lothian (formerly Haddingtonshire), in the south-east of Scotland. The town lies 6 miles from the boundary of Edinburgh, and 9.1 miles from the city centre. It lies beside the A1 road, the A1 runs through the parish ...

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. The team was promoted from the

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Premier Division to the

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in 2022, having moved from the

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in 2018. Despite leaving the junior leagues, the club has retained the term "Juniors" as part of their identity. Their home ground is Foresters Park and club colours are maroon and white. The club's greatest honour was winning the

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in 1934–35, defeating Petershill 6–1 at

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in front of a crowd of 22,000. This remains the joint record margin of victory in a Junior Cup final. The club were also runners-up to Yoker Athletic in the 1932–33 final after a replay. East Lothian Council Archives holds
selection of images
of the team playing and posing with their trophies.

Managers

The club was managed on an interim basis from November 2016 by Kenny Rafferty and former

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player Darren Smith. On 9 February 2017, Kenny Rafferty and former

player Darren Smith become full-time bosses. Rafferty and Smith resigned in November 2017, following a Scottish Junior Cup defeat. Max Christie served as manager from 8 December 2017 to 27 January 2019. He was succeeded by Calvin Shand who managed the team from February 2019 to February 2020. Johnny Harvey replaced Calvin Shand as manager in February 2020. Tranent announced that Harvey had left his position on 24 September 2020. Harvey disputed this and claimed he was sacked by the club.

Calum Elliot Calum Elliot (born 30 March 1987) is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played as a forward for Heart of Midlothian, Motherwell, Livingston, Dundee, Žalgiris Vilnius, Alloa and Raith Rovers. He also represented Scotland at you ...

was announced as the club's new manager on 26 September 2020 until August 2022 when Elliot was replaced by Colin Nish and his assistant manager Steven Hislop. Nish subsequently left the club at the end of the 2022-23 season. On 9 May 2023 it was announced that Max Christie would return for a second stint as manager.

Current squad

As of 5 June 2023

Honours

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* Champions: 2021–22

* Winners: 1934–35 * Runners-up: 1932–33 Fife & Lothians Cup * Winners: 2016–17 East of Scotland Junior Cup * Winners (10): 1913–14, 1919–20, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1937–38, 1959–60, 1978–79, 2016–17

Other honours

* King Cup winners: 2018–19 *East Region South Division: winners 2015–16 * Midlothian League winners: 1928–29, 1930–31, 1936–37 *Renton Cup winners: 1924–25

References

External links

Official club site

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