Easthouses Lily F.C.

Easthouses Lily Miners Welfare

Full name	Easthouses Lily Miners Welfare Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Lily
Founded	1969 (original club 1950)
Ground	Newbattle Complex, Easthouses
Ground Capacity	1,500
Manager	David McQueenie
League	SJFA East Region South Division
2015–16	SJFA East Region South Division, 6th

Easthouses Lily Miners Welfare Football Club are a junior football club currently playing in the SJFA East Region South Division, after switching from the senior ranks for the 2015–16 season. Their home matches are played at Easthouses Park, sometimes referred to as Broadhurst Road after its location. There has been an Easthouses Lily Football Club in Easthouses, Midlothian, since the establishment of the Easthouses Colliery earlier in the 20th Century.

Easthouses Lily F.C. were originally formed in 1950 and competed in the Edinburgh and District Junior League, a forerunner of today's East Region Junior leagues.

Their first season as a Junior club was 1950–51 and was their best, finishing as runners-up to Newtongrange Star in the Mid/East Division, with Star going onto lift the Championship after beating West Division winners Camelon Juniors in the play-off.

The following few seasons saw finishes in the top half of the league including fourth place in 1953–54, however life was always difficult living in the shadow of neighbours Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic, Newtongrange Star and Dalkeith Thistle, and the bottom half of the table gradually became the norm.

Season 1958–59 saw the club reach the Quarter-Finals of the Scottish Junior Cup. A 3–1 win in the first round over local rivals Dalkeith Thistle was followed up with a 4–3 win at Camelon in the second, they received a bye in the third round, the fourth round Lily recorded a 4–1 win at Murray Park over Inverurie Locos before a narrow 1–0 home win over West Calder United in the fifth round lead to a Quarter Final meeting at Shettleston, which they lost 3–0. Shettleston went on to lose the final at Hampden to Irvine Meadow.

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