Brechin City F.C.
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| Full name | Brechin City Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | 'The City' |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Ground | Glebe Park, Brechin |
| Capacity | 4,083 (1,519 seated) |
| Chairman | Ken Ferguson |
| Manager | Darren Dods (player/manager) |
| League | Scottish League One |
| 2015–16 | Scottish League One, 7th |
| Website | Club home page |
Brechin City Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the town of Brechin in Angus. The club was founded in 1906 by players and officials of two local clubs, Brechin Harp and Brechin Hearts. The club currently competes in the Scottish League One as a member of the Scottish Professional Football League, having been relegated from the First Division in 2005.
The club's highest achievements include winning the third tier of Scottish football four times, the last coming in 2004–05 as champions of the Second Division. The club has also reached the final of the Scottish Challenge Cup, losing to 2–0 to Queen of the South in 2002. Brechin's home ground is Glebe Park with the capacity to seat around 1,500 spectators in its capacity of 4,083. The ground opened in 1919. The current player/manager is Darren Dods, who was appointed in June 2015.
The club was founded in 1906 by players and officials from two comparatively successful local junior sides – Brechin Harp and Brechin Hearts. A deputation from the Forfarshire Football Association had met with representatives of the local game at the Temperance Hall in City Road and managed to persuade them that Brechin would benefit from having a single senior club. Although Brechin Harp folded with the establishment of the senior side, Brechin Hearts continued as a viable and successful Junior side until the years of the Great War.
The club won its first important local honour, the Forfarshire Cup, in the 1909–10 season with a side that featured nine players from the town. The club moved to their Glebe Park home in 1919, a stadium which currently has a capacity of 3,960 (1,519 seated) and is famous for the hedge that runs alongside one side of the pitch.
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