Clyde Football Club are a Scottish professional football team currently playing in the Second Division of the Scottish Football League. Although based for the last fifteen years in the new town of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, they are traditionally associated with an area that covers Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire and south east Glasgow. They are not to be confused with either Clydesdale or Clydebank
Their greatest triumph is having lifted th...
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Clyde Football Club are a Scottish professional football team currently playing in the Second Division of the Scottish Football League. Although based for the last fifteen years in the new town of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, they are traditionally associated with an area that covers Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire and south east Glasgow. They are not to be confused with either Clydesdale or Clydebank
Their greatest triumph is having lifted the Scottish Cup three times, the most recent being in 1958.
The Clyde Football Club was founded and played on the banks of the River Clyde at Barrowfield. Documentary evidence from the SFA and indeed match reports in the Glasgow press clearly show it all began in 1877, and the thread continues unbroken to this day.
Here's how the SFA recorded Clyde's origins:
"Clyde:- Founded 1877; Membership 50; Grounds (private), Barrowfield Park, on the banks of the Clyde; ten minutes walk from Bridgeton Cross; Club House on grounds; Colours, White & Blue....
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