Irvine Meadow XI F.C.
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| Full name | Irvine Meadow XI Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Medda |
| Founded | 1897 |
| Ground | Meadow Park, Wilson Avenue Irvine |
| Capacity | 5000 |
| Chairman | Robert Jeffrey |
| Co-managers | Gareth Turner & Michael Wardrope |
| League | West of Scotland Super League First Division |
| 2015–16 | West of Scotland Super League Premier Division, 12th (relegated) |
Irvine Meadow XI Football Club is a Scottish football club, from Irvine, North Ayrshire. They are currently playing in the West of Scotland Super League First Division of the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region.
Their home ground is Meadow Park in central Irvine.
Formed in 1897 they are one of the most successful Junior clubs still playing. Of the two junior football clubs in Irvine the other being Irvine Victoria) they are the larger. They are traditionally one of the biggest Junior clubs in Scotland. Meadow have set many attendance records at other Junior club's grounds and were at one stage invited to turn senior and play in the Scottish Football League. They decided to remain in the 'juniors' and at present compete in the Western Region Junior League.
Irvine Meadow's closest rivals are Kilwinning Rangers, who have been less successful in recent seasons, based in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, and Irvine Victoria, who play on the other side of the river Irvine at Victoria Park. An annual derby fixture is played each August to coincide with Irvine's Marymass Festival. After recent dominance in the fixture over the past decade, Meadow lost 4–3 at Meadow Park in 2006, the first time in 9 years that they have not won the fixture.
In recent times, Irvine Meadow have seen greater rivalry with Auchinleck Talbot, with the two usually contending against each other for the league title. Talbot are generally regarded are Meadow's largest rivals, despite the distance between the two clubs.
Irvine Meadow were the first junior club in Scotland to have a home game televised when the 1958 Scottish Junior Cup tie against Fauldhouse United was shown on Scotsport. Meadow are the only junior football club to have travelled by air to a game when they went to St. Andrew's stadium to play Birmingham City in a match in which they lost 3–2.
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