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Bathgate Thistle F.C.

Bathgate Thistle
Full name Bathgate Thistle Football Club
Nickname(s) Thistle
Founded 1937
Ground Creamery Park
Hardhill Road
Bathgate
Ground Capacity 2,000
President Jim Walker
Manager Andrew Colley
League SJFA East Premier League
2015–16 SJFA East Premier League, 6th

Bathgate Thistle Football Club are a Scottish junior football club, based in the town of Bathgate, West Lothian. They play in the Scottish Junior Football Association's East Region Premier League.

Nicknamed Thistle, they were formed in 1937 and presently play their home games at Creamery Park, which has room for 2,437 spectators. Their home shirts are blue with a white trim and their away shirts are black with a white trim.

In 2006, Thistle reached the final of the Scottish Junior Cup, losing 2–1 to Auchinleck Talbot at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock, in front of around 7,000 spectators. In 2008, the club reached the final again, this time defeating Cumnock Juniors 2–1.

Thistle formed part of a new united community football club involving the town's youth and amateur sides in February 2013. The Junior side is managed since June 2015 by Andrew Colley.




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