Tayport F.C.
| Full name | Tayport Football Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Port |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Ground |
The Canniepairt Shanwell Road Tayport |
| Capacity | 2,000 |
| Chairman | Alastair Oswald |
| Manager | John Ovenstone (player-manager) |
| League | SJFA East Premier League |
| 2015–16 | SJFA East Superleague, 16th (relegated) |
Tayport Football Club are a Scottish Junior football club from Tayport, Fife. Formed in 1947, they play their home games at The Canniepairt. Nicknamed the Port, the club's colours are red, white and black.
They presently play in the Scottish Junior Football Association's East Region Premier League.
Although the club is based in Fife, their close geographical location to Dundee and Angus meant that, when they became a junior club, they chose to join the Tayside League rather than the Fife League. They had phenomenal success in the 1990s and early-2000s, winning the league they were competing in every season since 1990–91, bar four times when they managed to finish as runners-up.
For over a century the game of football has been a major influence in most communities in Scotland. Tayport, a small former burgh of just under 9,000 inhabitants, situated on Fife’s most northern extremity on the south bank of the River Tay, is no exception.
From Victorian times, through to the Second World War, the town has always had at least one football club. Information from those days is sketchy, but we do know that Tayport had a Junior club pre-First World War, winning the East of Fife Cup in 1905, for example. The Great War in 1914 effectively signalled the demise of Junior football in the town for seventy five years.
Throughout the twenties and thirties, there were various amateurs clubs in the town, but success was fleeting and there is little recorded history. After the Second World War and the second half of the 20th Century beckoning, The town’s football club was Tayport Violet. In 1947 a new club emerged as rivals to Violet when Tayport Amateurs was formed by local lads who had been playing friendlies together as a Senior Boy Scouts team. This was the birth of the club we know today.
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