Football Clubs

Association football is easily Ayrshire's most popular sport. The county has two senior clubs; Ayr United and Kilmarnock FC. Kilmarnock is the most successful having won the Scottish League in 1965 and the Scottish Cup in 1920, 1929 and 1997. More supporting passion is reserved for the local junior sides which number at present twenty-three. The first junior matches were played in 1888 and the Ayrshire Junior Football Association forming in the next year. The Association lasted until 1968 when all junior football in Scotland came under the control of the Scottish Junior Football Association.

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Kilmaurs School football team

Kilmaurs School football team with teacher/trainer Mr James Climie and headmaster Mr Cunningham.

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Newmilns Junior Ayrshire Champions, 1901-1902

Photograph shows Newmilns Junior club. Back row: A. Currie, J. Black, W. Paterson, R. Allan, R.

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Kilmaurs football team

This photo shows a football team from Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire.

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Opening of West End Football Grounds

Opening of the West End Football Grounds in Newmilns. Writing on photograph reads 'Major Shields

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Kilmarnock Post Office football team

This photo shows Kilmarnock Post Office football team in 1937.

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Team photo of Winton FC, 1898

Team photo from the 1897-98 season. Photograph displays 3 of their recently won trophies: Ayrshire,

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Team photo of Portland FC, 1878

This photo shows 11 players arranged around a table with 3 trophies.

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Benwhat Heather Bell Football Club

Benwhat Heather Bell Football Club, believed to be taken around 1894. The building in the backgroun

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'23 young ambassadors return home', newpaper article

Article from the Dumfries & Galloway Standard, August 1974, detailing the tour of Norway by Dumf

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'We Have Much To Learn From Akra', Norwegian newspaper cutting

Article from a Norwegian newspaper on the tour of Norway by Dumfries youth football team, Greystone

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Signed Greystone Rovers AFC Programme

Programme and itinerary for 'Greystone Rovers' youth football club tour of Norway in July 1951. The

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Prince Olaf greeting the Norwegian football team

During the Second World War international football matches were held between the Allied forces. This

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