Kyles Athletic
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| Full name | Kyles Athletic Shinty Club |
| Gaelic name | Comann Camanachd Caolas Bhòdaich |
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| Nickname | Kyles |
| Founded | 1896 |
| Ground | The Playing Field, Tighnabruaich |
| Manager | James Perlich |
| League | Premier Division |
| 2016 | 2nd |
| Reserve Manager | Peter Mobeck |
| League | South Division One |
| 2016 | 6th |
Kyles Athletic Shinty Club is a shinty team from Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scotland. It is one of the sport's most illustrious names, presently playing in the Premier Division Their second team is presently playing in South Division one. In 2012 they won the Camanachd Cup for the first time since 1994, defeating local rivals Inveraray in the final.
The club was founded in 1896 as Kyles Athletic Football and Shinty Club, the same year as the first Camanachd Cup, which Kyles have gone on to win more times than any other club apart from the Badenoch giants, Newtonmore, sharing the second place spot with Kingussie, 21 times in all. They have also won the Celtic Society Cup 29 times and the MacAulay Cup a further 10 times. They won the Grand Slam in 1966. (At that point consisting of the Camanachd, MacAulay, Celtic Society and Dunn Senior League.)
Kyles play in royal blue shirts with white shorts and red stockings as their first set of jerseys were presented by Rangers FC.
Kyles won the Grand Slam in 1966, the only time the club has done so, winning the Dunn League. Until the formation of the National Premier League, Kyles were the dominant side in South shinty, having won the inaugural amalgamated South league in 1974–75 and then winning every league from 1977 to 1988.
A great constant since the late 1970s has been Kenny MacDonald who is still who is still helping manage the first team today. He has played for Scotland and also won the Albert Smith Medal. He was also part of the Kyles team which won the Macaulay Cup alongside his son Roddy.
In the early 2000s they enjoyed a yo-yo existence in the National Leagues and whilst still a match for anyone in remote Tighnabruaich, they struggled to regain their prime position in South shinty until the next decade.
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