Cambuslang F.C.
| Founded | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 1897 |
| Ground |
Whitefield Park Cambuslang South Lanarkshire |
Cambuslang Football Club was a Scottish football club, based in the Cambuslang area of Glasgow. Cambuslang was one of the founding members of the Scottish Football League, but left the league after just two seasons.
The club was founded in 1874. The new football club was named Excelsior with a pitch being laid out in Cambuslang Public Park, known locally as Bogshole Park.
The new club were challenged by the lads from up the hill from the village of Halfway to play for the right to call themselves Cambuslang, so the Excelsior team went to Halfway and in their first match hammered the lads from Halfway at Clyde Street Park by the scoreline of 6–0 and from then on the Excelsior name was scratched and Cambuslang Football and Athletic Club were formed.
In 1879 at a meeting at the Cross Hotel in Hamilton the secretary of Cambuslang was joined by the secretaries of Airdrie, Airdriehill, Drumpellier, Hamilton Academical, Glengowan, Clydebank, Uddingston, West Benhar, Benhar and Stonelaw where it was agreed that each club would pay 10 shillings (50p) towards a county cup and the new district would be known as the Lanarkshire County Football Association. Cambuslang would win the Lanarkshire Cup on two occasions and be runners up four times before falling out with the Lanarkshire Football Association and joining the Glasgow Football Association for the 1887–88 season.
They reached the Scottish Cup Final in 1888, having beaten Abercorn 10–1 in a semi-final replay after a 1–1 draw with a goal from Billy Mortimer. They won the inaugural Glasgow Cup in the same year. Cambuslang joined the Scottish Football League at its inauguration in 1890 and finished fourth in the 1890–91 season. The club finished last in the eleven team league in 1891–92, however, and did not seek re-election to the League. They made no effort to re-join the League when it added a Second Division.
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