St Andrew's F.C. (Kilmarnock)

St Andrew's
Full name	St Andrew's Football Club
Founded	1873
Dissolved	1877
Ground	Holehouse Road
Captain	J. Lyle, W. Millar
	Home colours
	Home colours

St Andrew's Football Club was an association football club from Kilmarnock, Ayrshire in Scotland.

History

The club was founded in 1873.^[3]

St Andrew's first entered the Scottish Cup in 1876–77, and was drawn at home to Ayr Eglinton in the first round.^[4] The game ended in a 1–1 draw.^[5]

The replay was played on 7 October at the neutral Robbsland Park (the ground of Ayr Thistle F.C.) and lasted only an hour, St Andrew's winning 1–0.^[6]

In the second round, the club was drawn to play at the Portland club, on the latter's ground at Nursery Park, on Holehouse Road. The home side won 2–0 in a "one-sided game".^[7]

The club played matches regularly until the end of the season, the final one advertised being against Rosevale of Strathbungo on 14 April 1877,^[8] but the club appears to have wound up before the start of the 1877–78 season, as it scratched from its first round Scottish Cup tie with Ayr Thistle,^[9] and did not enter the new Ayrshire Cup.

Colours

The club's colours were black and red hoops.^[10]

Ground

The club probably started out playing on public parks, but it had a new ground at Holehouse Road for the 1875–76 season, opening it with a match against a Kilmarnock F.C. scratch XI.^[11] It moved to Grange Park in time for its Cup tie with Ayr Eglinton.^[12]

References

^ "Portland v St Andrews". Kilmarnock Standard: 3. 3 April 1875.
^ "Football - Cup ties". Kilmarnock Standard: 3. 7 October 1876.
^ "Club Directory". Scottish Football Historical Results Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
^ "Grand Football Match". Kilmarnock Standard: 2. 30 September 1876.
^ "Football - Cup ties". Kilmarnock Standard: 3. 7 October 1876.
^ Mathers, Stewart. "Season 1876-77". Beautiful Dribbling Game. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
^ "Kilmarnock Portland v Kilmarnock St Andrew's". North British Daily Mail: 3. 23 October 1876.
^ "Football match". Kilmarnock Standard: 1. 14 April 1877.
^ "Scottish Football Association". North British Daily Mail: 4. 12 September 1877.
^ "Club Directory". Scottish Football Historical Results Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
^ "St Andrew's (Kilmarnock) v Kilmarnock (scratch)". North British Daily Mail: 3. 18 October 1875.
^ "Grand Football Match". Kilmarnock Standard: 2. 30 September 1876.