Ayr United F. C.
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| Full name | Ayr United Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Honest Men |
| Founded | 1910 |
| Ground | Somerset Park |
| Capacity | 10,185 (1,597 seated) |
| Chairman | Lachlan Cameron |
| Manager | Ian McCall |
| League | Scottish League One |
| 2016–17 | Scottish Championship, 10th (relegated) |
| Website | Club website |
Ayr United Football Club are a football club in Ayr, Scotland, that plays in Scottish League One, the third tier of the Scottish Professional Football League. Formed in 1910 by the merger of Ayr Parkhouse and Ayr F.C., their nickname is The Honest Men, from a line in the Robert Burns poem "Tam o' Shanter". They play at Somerset Park.
The club have spent 34 seasons in Scotland's top division, the last being 1977–78, and have been the champions of the second tier of Scottish football on six occasions, and of the third tier twice. The club's most successful manager, Ally MacLeod, went on to manage the Scottish national football team. In 2016, Ayr United secured promotion to the Scottish Championship via the playoffs, however were relegated the following season.
Ayr United were founded in 1910 by the merger of Ayr Parkhouse and Ayr F.C.. Although Inverness Caledonian Thistle are also the product of a merger between two clubs, Ayr United are the only Scottish Football League club to have been formed from a merger of two existing league clubs.
The club's honours include winning six Second Division titles (as the second tier championship) and a further two such titles (as the third tier championship), most recently in 1996–97. They have not won any national cup competitions, although they were runners-up in the 2001–02 Scottish League Cup, and in the Scottish Challenge Cup in the first two seasons in which the competition was held: 1990–91 and 1991–92. They have won the local competition the Ayrshire Cup on 26 occasions, most commonly facing fierce local rivals Kilmarnock in the final. The Ayrshire Cup was last played for in season 1996–97, since when the competition has been suspended.
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