Inverness Shinty Club
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| Full name | Inverness Shinty Club |
| Gaelic name | Comann Camanachd Inbhir Nis |
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| Nickname | The Town |
| Founded | 1887 |
| Ground | Bught Park, Inverness |
| Manager | Drew McNeil |
| League | National Division One |
| 2016 | 7th |
| Reserve Manager | Allan MacLeod |
| League | North Division Two |
| 2016 | 8th |
Inverness Shinty Club is a shinty club from Inverness, Scotland. The first team competes in North Division One and the second team in North Division Three. Founded in 1887 as Inverness Town and County Shinty Club to distinguish from other clubs in Inverness such as Clachnacuddin, Inverness moved to the Bught Park in 1934. Inverness won the Camanachd Cup in 1952. The club struggles to compete for players with the wide proliferation of football clubs in Inverness, in particular Inverness Caledonian Thistle but still manages to put out two teams.
In February 1887 a great interest was aroused in Inverness and the surrounding area due to a contest between Glenurquhart and Strathglass at the Bught, Inverness. As a result of this re-kindled interest a meeting was held on Friday 25 March 1887 at the Burgh Court House, Inverness. A club was formed known as Inverness Town and County Shinty Club and 52 members were registered
Inverness played several matches against the Railway Workshop Club, Cameron Highlanders and Aberdeen University until the last recorded appearance of the Inverness (Railway) club in 1890. By 1893 enthusiasm for the sport has waned and in that year it was decided the "The Old Caledonian Shinty Club should be resuscitated under the name "Inverness Shinty Club".
In February 1897 Beauly beat Inverness 2–1, at Beauly, in the Camanachd Cup. In January 1898 at a meeting of the club Mr Duncan MacTavish presented a cup to the club to stimulate further interest in the area. Later in that year Inverness beat Glenurquhart and then Foyers in the second round before being defeated 7–2 at the Haugh (Inverness) by Portree who were the thus the first winners of the MacTavish Cup. There are reports of Inverness being finalists in the 1900 and 1901 MacTavish Cups against Laggan and Kingussie, respectively. Finally in February 1907 Inverness won the MacTavish Cup at the Victoria Park (Inverness, formerly ground between Glenurquhart Road and Bruce Gardens) with a 3–2 win over a team from the Cameron Depot. In March 1911 Inverness beat Strathdearn 5–1 at Victoria Park and became the first winners of the Strathdearn Cup (at this time known as the Colonel MacKinitosh Cup). Later that season Inverness beat Fort Augustus 6–1 at Victoria Park (Inverness) to reclaim the MacTavish Cup. The following year, Wester Ross was beaten 4–3 at Victoria Park allowing Inverness to retain the MacTavish Cup.
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