association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
club from
Paisley, Renfrewshire
Paisley ( ; ; ) is a large town situated in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. Located north of the Gleniffer Braes, the town borders the city of Glasgow to the east, and straddles the banks of the White Cart Water, a tributary of the River ...
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History
Woodland was formed in 1880, with matches recorded from March that year. Caught up in the general explosion of the sport's popularity, it joined the
Scottish Football Association
The Scottish Football Association (; also known as the Scottish FA and the SFA) is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility for the control and development of football in Scotland. Members of the SFA incl ...
in June 1882, at the same time as neighbours Woodside. Never having entered the leading local competition, the
Renfrewshire Cup
The Renfrewshire Cup was an annual association football competition between teams in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. The final was generally a Renfrewshire derby contested between the two largest team ...
, before turning senior, its first competitive football came in the
1882–83 Scottish Cup
The 1882–83 Scottish Cup – officially the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup – was the tenth season of Scotland's most prestigious Association football, football knockout competition. Dumbarton F.C., Dumbarton won the cup for the f ...
. Woodland drew 1–1 with
Sir John Maxwell
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in the first round at home, but lost 5–3 in the replay, throwing away a 3–1 lead.
The two clubs met again in the Renfrewshire Cup a month later, this time the Sir John winning 8–1. Woodland's second and last
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1883–84 was more successful, inasmuch as the club earned a win, 4–1 at
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. In the second round the club was drawn to play St Mirren, one of the two biggest clubs in the town, and went down 7–0. In the first round of the Renfrewshire, the club was drawn at home to Morton, and again lost, although this time by a creditable 4–1 scoreline, and having a goal disallowed for offside when 3–1 down.
With only 40 members at its peak, the club was much smaller than the leading clubs in the town; the big three,
Abercorn
Abercorn ( Gaelic: ''Obar Chùirnidh'', Old English: ''Æbbercurnig'') is a village and civil parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around west of South Queensferry. The parish had a ...
, Paisley Athletic, and St Mirren had 200, 160, and 200 respectively. The club suffered heavy defeats from all of them in competitive matches. Apart from the Cup tie with St Mirren, Woodland lost 6–1 to Athletic in the first round of the 1882–83 Paisley Charity Cup, in a "most friendly" game "free from any rough play of any description", despite taking an early lead. and 11–2 to Abercorn in the first round of the same competition the following year, the club's final competitive match.
As the season went on, the club struggled at times to find an XI, failing to turn up to a friendly at Northern (Greenock) in March 1884. Along with fellow Paisley side West End Athletic, the club left the Scottish FA before the 1884–85 season.
Colours
The club wore blue jerseys and white knickers.
Ground
The club's ground, Meiklerigg Park, was 20 minutes from
Paisley railway station
Paisley railway station may refer to the closed Paisley railway station, Melbourne, Paisley railway station in Melbourne, or one of several railway stations in the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland:
Stations with ''Paisley'' in the name
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