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The club's mascot is a squirrel named 'Captain Conker', named after the squirrels which feature on the club's crest and the coat of arms of the Clan Boyd of Kilmarnock. In the past, the 'Killie Pie' mascot was also a regular at Rugby Park on matchdays.
A club's mascot is a cartoon character, often that of an animal, that symbolises some virtue boasted by the team. Most of them have proper names. Usually mascots come in two versions, a "soft" one, which is the official and a "hardcore" one used by ultras and torcidas, which often contain traces of vulgarity or violence. [6]
A Killie pie (or Kilmarnock pie) is a steak and gravy pie, created initially for Kilmarnock Football Club and sold at their stadium, Rugby Park.. Local bakery Brownings has produced the pie for the club since 2003, and it is also sold in Aldi, SPAR and selected Scotmid stores in Scotland. [1]
Scottish Second XI Final Replay, Kilmarnock Athletic 3–1 Dumbarton, Glasgow Herald, 31 March 1884. The following season, the club joined the Scottish Football Association under the new name of Kilmarnock Athletic. [6] The club was quickly successful, winning the Ayrshire Cup in 1878–79. From 1881 to 1884 the club was one of the top clubs in ...
The club was founded in 1888, [3] under the name Rosebank, sometimes named in the media as Kilmarnock Rosebank. [4] The club played one Scottish Cup tie under that name, losing to Stewarton Cunninghame F.C. in the first round in 1888, the match marking the club's "first bow to a football crowd of any size"; Rosebank was under the disadvantage of having to switch the tie to Stewarton as Holm ...
The club have been members of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) since its formation in 2013, having previously been members of the Scottish Football League. In the 2020–21 season , Thistle won Scottish League One , the third tier of the SPFL structure, and returned to the Scottish Championship , having been relegated from there ...
Smith, who was born in Fenwick, East Ayrshire, played in juvenile football before signing for Kilmarnock in late 1927. [3] He was out on loan at non-league Galston when the club won the Scottish Cup in 1929, but was part of the Killie team that lost the 1932 final to Rangers after a replay.
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