Sauchie F.C.
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| Full name | Sauchie Juniors Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Reds |
| Founded | 1960 |
| Ground | Beechwood Park Sauchie |
| Capacity | 5,000 (approx. 200 seated) |
| Manager | Fraser Duncan |
| League | SJFA East Premier League |
| 2015–16 | SJFA East Superleague, 14th (relegated via play-off) |
Sauchie Juniors Football Club are a Scottish junior football club based in the village of Sauchie, Clackmannanshire. Their home ground is Beechwood Park and club colours are red and white.
The SJFA restructured prior to the 2006–07 season, and Sauchie found themselves in the 15-team East Region, South Division. They finished second in their first season in the division.
Sauchie Junior Football Club began as Sauchie Juveniles, which was a league for players up to 27 years of age. Sauchie won the Scottish Cup four times (1951–52, 1956–57, 1957–58 and 1959–60). Having won every trophy possible as first class Juveniles, Jimmy Millar, the Secretary decided to go into the Junior grade. In the Club's second season as a Junior team, it won the East Region League Title, using mostly the Juvenile players.
Sauchie Juniors started playing at Fairfield Park, Sauchie, but built a new park for themselves – the present ground – Beechwood Park. This has been developed in 2003 with the building of a new stand an enclosure and the erection of floodlights.
Ground Capacity: 5,000 (approx) Covered Standing Area: 500 (approx) Seated Stand: 200 (approx) Bar/Function Suite Capacity: 100 (approx)
Manager – Fraser Duncan
Assistant Manager – David Beaton
Alan Hansen – Right from the start Sauchie has provided many players who became seniors - including three who became full Scottish Internationalists - Alan Hansen (Partick Thistle and Liverpool), his brother John (Partick Thistle), Joe Craig (Partick Thistle and Celtic) and Nicol Craig (Rangers). Jim Wallace went to Dunfermline and won Scottish under-23's and League Caps. More recently Paul McHale moved to Cowdenbeath then Clyde and is now at Dundee.
George Connelly – One other Internationalist player who gave great service to the Club was George Connelly of Celtic, but unlike the others, Sauchie was his last club, not his first.
Sauchie Juniors won the East Region, St Michael's Cup twice, in 1972 and 1974. After winning the East Dryburgh Cup in Season 1982–83, the team went on to defeat the other Dryburgh winners, Sunnybank, East Kilbride and Auchinleck Talbot to win the National Dryburgh Trophy.
After a barren spell, in season 2002–03 and then again in 2003–04 we won the Fife and Lothian Cup defeating Glenrothes and then Linlithgow Rose the following season.
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