Ayr United F.C. are an association football team based in Ayr, South Ayrshire, who play in the First Division of the Scottish Football League, having been promoted in the 2008-09 season. Formed in 1910 after the merger of former clubs Ayr Parkhouse F.C. and Ayr F.C. (the latter being a prior merger of Ayr Thistle and Ayr Academical in 1879), their nickname is "The Honest Men", taken from a line in the poem "Tam o' Shanter" by Scotland's national ...
more
Ayr United F.C. are an association football team based in Ayr, South Ayrshire, who play in the First Division of the Scottish Football League, having been promoted in the 2008-09 season. Formed in 1910 after the merger of former clubs Ayr Parkhouse F.C. and Ayr F.C. (the latter being a prior merger of Ayr Thistle and Ayr Academical in 1879), their nickname is "The Honest Men", taken from a line in the poem "Tam o' Shanter" by Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. They play at Somerset Park.
The club have spent 34 seasons in Scotland's top division altogether, though the last was in the 1977/78 season. The club have been the champions of the second tier of Scottish football on six occasions and of the third tier twice (most recently in 1996/97), but have not won any national cup competitions. The club's most famous and most successful manager is Ally MacLeod, who went on to manage the Scottish national football team. Their current manager is former player Brian Reid.
The club's local...
less
