Clachnacuddin F.C.

Clachnacuddin

Full name	Clachnacuddin Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Lilywhites, Clach
Founded	1885
Ground	Grant Street Park, Inverness; Canal Park, Inverness (Temporary Groundshare)
Capacity	3,000 (154 seated)
Chairman	Alex Chisholm
Manager	Jordan Macdonald
League	Highland League
2019–20	Highland League, 15th of 17
Home colours Away colours

Clachnacuddin Football Club is a part-time senior professional football club from the city of Inverness who currently play in the Scottish Highland Football League.

Clachnacuddin have won the most Highland Football League championships in the competition's history: a total of 18. Their home ground is Grant Street Park in the city's Merkinch area.^[1] They also have a youth system, with many teams ranging from the primary squads to the under 19s.

The club operated a reserve team in the North Caledonian Football League but withdrew for the start of the 2014–15 season.

They were founded in 1885 and are nicknamed "The Lilywhites" (due to their white strip) or "Clach". Their name is an English approximation of a Scots Gaelic name meaning "the stone of the tub", referring to a city landmark in Inverness.

As a senior team with a compliant stadium, they are entitled to enter the Scottish Cup.

Grant Street Park

Clachnacuddin have played at Grant Street Park in the Merkinch area of Inverness since the ground opened in 1886. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 3,000 spectators.

On 23 May 1988 a major fire destroyed Grant Street’s wooden grandstand with vandalism blamed.^[2]

On the morning of Christmas Eve 2019, a fire broke out in the kit room due to an electrical fault in a tumble drier.^[3] As a result, Clachnacuddin's home game against Formartine United was called off. Following this incident, Clach were put into a temporary groundshare with Highland RFC at Canal Park, in the Bught area of Inverness.^[1]

First team squad

As of 14 October 2017

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Where a player has not declared an international allegiance, nation is determined by place of birth.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK SCO Dougie MacLennan — DF SCO Michael Finnis — DF SCO Ross MacKillop — DF NIR Sean Webb — MF SCO James Beeston — MF SCO Martin Callum — MF SCO Chiedu Ikeme

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF SCO Blair Lawrie — MF SCO John MacAskill — MF SCO Ryan Mackintosh — MF SCO Struan McArthur — MF SCO Paul Smith — MF SCO Alasdair Gillies

Honours

Highland Football League:^[4]

• Champions: 1894–95, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1900–01, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1904–05, 1905–06, 1907–08, 1911–12, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1974–75, 2003–04

Highland League Cup^[4]

• Winners: 1947–48, 1950–51, 1981–82, 2003–04, 2013–14

North of Scotland Cup:^[5]

• Winners: 1894–95, 1895–96, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1922–23, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1964–65, 1979–80, 1992–93, 2001–02

Inverness Cup:^[6]

• Winners: 1897–98, 1900–01 1903–04, 1904–05, 1906–07, 1909–10, 1919–20, 1921–22, 1923–24, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1936–37, 1951–52, 1952–53

Scottish Qualifying Cup (North):^[7][8]

• Winners: 1934–35, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1998–99

Bells Cup:^[9]

• Winners: 1977–78

Inverness Charity Cup:^[10]

• Winners: 1896–97, 1897–98, 1903–04, 1904–05, 1920–21, 1927–28, 1932–33, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1948–49

Elginshire Charity Cup:^[11]

• Winners: 1896–97, 1897–98, 1899–00, 1905–06

Inverness Sports Bed Cup:^[10]

• Winners: 1937–38

Club records

• Record attendance: 8,850 vs St Johnstone, 17 January 1948

References

External links

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