Raith Rovers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Kirkcaldy, Fife. They are members of the Scottish Football League, currently playing in the First Division, having secured promotion from the Second Division as champions. Their manager is former Hearts head coach John McGlynn who replaced former Hearts and Leicester manager Craig Levein.
Due to past victories, Raith Rovers remain one of the higher supported clubs in the...
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Raith Rovers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Kirkcaldy, Fife. They are members of the Scottish Football League, currently playing in the First Division, having secured promotion from the Second Division as champions. Their manager is former Hearts head coach John McGlynn who replaced former Hearts and Leicester manager Craig Levein.
Due to past victories, Raith Rovers remain one of the higher supported clubs in the lower divisions of Scottish football, regularly attracting gates of over 1,500.
There are three other senior league teams in Fife with East Fife around eight miles to the east, and Cowdenbeath and Dunfermline Athletic nine and fourteen miles respectively, to the west.
Raith (Scottish Gaelic rath "fort") is a place west of Kirkcaldy where the Battle of Raith was fought in 596. Although it lends it name to many entities in the region, Raith is not itself a settlement. A Raith Rovers victory in the 1960s led to a famous BBC commentator's blunder...
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