Heathryfold Park
| Full name | Sunnybank Football Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Black and Whites |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Ground | Heathryfold Park Heathryfold Circle Aberdeen |
| Manager | Keith McHattie |
| League | SJFA North First Division (East) |
| 2015–16 | SJFA North First Division (East), 10th |
Sunnybank Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in the city of Aberdeen. Members of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they currently play in the SJFA North First Division (East). In respect of honours won, the club are historically regarded as one of the "big two" of North Region Junior football along with city rivals Banks O' Dee, sharing the distinction of being the only North clubs to lift Junior football's national prize, the Scottish Junior Cup. The club are based at Heathryfold Park in the North-West suburbs of Aberdeen and their colours are black and white.
Sunnybank FP were founded in 1936 and played in youth football until the onset of World War II. In 1946 the club merged with another local side Belmont, founded in 1944, and joined the Aberdeen & District Junior Football League as Sunnybank F.C.. The club won their first cup competitions in 1947-48, first league championship in 1951–52 and in 1953–54 won the Scottish Junior Cup, defeating Lochee Harp in front of 22,600 fans at Hampden Park, Glasgow, the first North Region club to do so.
Since 1946 the club had played at Linksfield Stadium, near the centre of Aberdeen but in 1957 purchased the site of Heathryfold Park from Lord Hay of Seaton, a local landowner, for the sum of £360. Although at that time on the city outskirts, the ground was soon surrounded by new housing schemes such as Northfield. This enabled the club to operate a thriving social club although in the early 21st century, this has fallen on hard times.
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