Clachnacuddin F.C.

Clachnacuddin

Full name	Clachnacuddin Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Lilywhites, Clach
Founded	1885
Ground	Grant Street Park, Inverness
Capacity	3,000 (154 seated)
Chairman	Chris Stewart
Manager	Conor Gethins
League	Highland League
2023–24	Highland League, 17th of 18
Home colours Away colours

Clachnacuddin Football Club is a part-time, senior Scottish football club based in the city of Inverness, that currently plays in the Highland Football League.

Clachnacuddin have won the most Highland Football League championships in the competition's history: a total of 18, a title shared with, now defunct side, Caledonian. 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 operates a reserve team in the North Caledonian Football League, which they rejoined in 2022–23 after withdrawing at 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 full member of the Scottish FA, they are entitled to enter the Scottish Cup each year.

Ground

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]

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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, 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, 1899–1900, 1905–06
• Inverness Sports Bed Cup[10]
  • Winners: 1937–38

Club records

• Record attendance: 8,850 vs St Johnstone, 17 January 1948^[citation needed]

References

1. Clachnacuddin: The fire-hit football club longing to return home, BBC Scotland News, 31 January 2020
2. "Fire Destroys Stand – Inverness Clachnacuddin FC". Clachnacuddin.com. 28 May 2012. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
3. "Clachnacuddin fire: 'Significant' blaze at Highland League club's stadium". 24 December 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
4. Scottish Highland League, Scottish Football Historical Archive, 2 January 2021
5. "Co.nf".
6. "Co.nf".
7. "Scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk".
8. Scotland – List of Qualifying Cup Finals, RSSSF, 15 December 2004
9. Bells Cup, Scottish Football Historical Archive, 4 June 2020
10. Inverness Charity Cup, Scottish Football Historical Archive, 6 July 2020
11. Elginshire Charity Cup, Scottish Football Historical Archive, 14 July 2020

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