Dumbarton Football Club
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| Full name | Dumbarton Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Sons |
| Founded | 1872 |
| Ground | Dumbarton Football Stadium, Dumbarton |
| Capacity | 2,020 |
| Chairman | Les Hope |
| Manager | Stevie Aitken |
| League | Scottish Championship |
| 2016–17 | Scottish Championship, 8th |
| Website | Club website |
Dumbarton Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Dumbarton, Scotland. Founded in 1872, just after Queen's Park (1867), Kilmarnock (1869) and Stranraer (1870), they play home games at the Dumbarton Football Stadium next to Dumbarton Castle.
The club were one of the most successful of the nineteenth century, winning the Scottish Football League in the first two seasons of the competition (the first jointly with Rangers). Since then, the club have spent the majority of their history outside the top flight, and last played at the top level in 1985, thus being the only existing Scottish league champions never to have competed in the Scottish Premier League. The club were the first team (and one of only two) to win at least one league title in each of the four tiers in the Scottish league system.
Stevie Aitken is the club's manager, having been appointed on 27 May 2015.
For the 2017–18 season, the team will wear strips from the Joma brand. The home strip is a modern take on the popular strips from the 1970s and early-1980s, an all white base with a black and gold band across the front, with further gold and black stripes above and below the main band. The away kit meanwhile is red and black stripes in tribute to the original colours of Dumbarton Athletic.
The clubs' badge features an elephant with a castle on its back, this represents Dumbarton Rock with Dumbarton Castle upon it, based on the historic town crest. Dumbarton Rock, a volcanic plug, is said to resemble an elephant. The teams nickname 'The Sons' is derived from the phrase 'Sons of The Rock', a term used for those born in the town of Dumbarton.
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