Threave Rovers F.C.
 |
|
| Full name | Threave Rovers Football Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Rovers |
| Founded | 1953 |
| Ground | Meadow Park, Blackpark Road, Castle Douglas |
| Capacity | 1,671 |
| Chairman | David McVitie |
| Manager | Scott Wilby |
| League | South of Scotland Football League |
| 2015–16 | Lowland Football League, 15th |
Threave Rovers Football Club are a football club from Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Formed in October 1953, the club plays its home games at Meadow Park and plays in the South of Scotland Football League.
Threave spent their early years engaged in friendlies and local cup competitions until they became a senior club in 1959 and replaced Whithorn in the South of Scotland Football League. They played for many years in the South of Scotland League, winning the championship seven times, before moving to the East of Scotland Football League in 1998–99, (while simultaneously running a reserve team in the South of Scotland League).
They performed well in the more difficult East of Scotland League, finishing third in the 2003–04 season, before quitting that league and deciding to concentrate their full efforts on the South of Scotland League. They cited the financial burden of constantly travelling eastwards to games as the reason for this decision. However, despite it being generally held that the South of Scotland League is the poorer of the two competitions, they only finished fourth in their first season back in the South, despite having finished third the season before in the East. This was primarily down to losing their top players to Annan Athletic and Dalbeattie Star, who did not want to play at a lesser level of football.
In the 2007–08 Scottish Cup, they produced one of the biggest shocks when the club defeated Third Division side Stenhousemuir 1–0 in the second round. Their reward was a home tie with Raith Rovers in the third round, but Threave lost the game 0–5.
...
Wikipedia