Lewis Camanachd
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| Full name | Lewis Camanachd |
| Gaelic name | Comann Camanachd Leòdhais |
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| Nickname | Na Leòdhasaich |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Ground | Sgoil Shiaboist |
| Manager | Duncan MacIntyre |
| League | North Division Two |
| 2016 | 9th |
Lewis Camanachd a.k.a. Comann Camanachd Leòdhais in Scots Gaelic, is the senior shinty team from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. The club entered North Division Three for the first time in 2011. This was the first time a team from the Western Isles was allowed to compete in league shinty. However, the club was only allowed in on trial and awaited a decision from the Camanachd Association as to whether this was to become a permanent arrangement, after an "epochal" decision, Lewis was granted entry on a permanent basis from 2012.
Although the Western Isles are one of the last bastions of Scottish Gaelic, shinty was not particularly common in recent times due to a steady decline in play from the beginning of the 20th century onwards and due to the growth in popularity of football. Shinty was played at community level until at least the 1930s.
Shinty in Lewis was re-introduced in 1995 by local enthusiasts. Clubs were set up in Back, Sandwick and Tong, Lewis. However, eventually Back Camanachd was the only club left playing. Back competed for the Mod Cup against Kyleakin in 2001.
In the first senior game played by a whole Lewis team, a Lewis select lost to Uist Camanachd in the 2005 Mod Cup Final.
The club was reconstituted in 2006 and entered cup competitions in 2007, the first club from the Outer Hebrides to do so. The club was drawn in its first competitive fixture with Glasgow Mid Argyll in the Sutherland Cup and Fort William in the Strathdearn Cup. The club did not progress beyond these fixtures.
The Club established training facilities at the Stornoway Primary School in Stornoway but due to no pitch in Stornoway being of the right standard for shinty, competitive "home" games were played on Lochbroom Camanachd's ground in Ullapool, a three-hour ferry ride away on the mainland. In September 2009, the Scots Shinty Club was the first mainland shinty team to travel to Lewis for a game against Lewis Camanachd at senior level.
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