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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]
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 was founded in 1873, out of a cricket club, [3] and quickly became the leading club in Kilmarnock. The club's name - often given simply as Portland - was taken from Portland Street in the town centre. The first time the club undertook competitive play was in the Scottish Cup in 1876–77.
The 2022–23 season was the 144th season of competitive association football and 10th season in the Scottish Professional Football League played by Kilmarnock Football Club, a professional football club based in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Kilmarnock began the 2020–21 season under the management of Alex Dyer who signed a two-year contract in June 2020, following his spell in temporary charge. [1] In the League Cup, Kilmarnock were drawn in Group E alongside Clyde, Dumbarton, Dunfermline Athletic and Falkirk. The competition is scheduled to start in October 2020. [2]
This is a list of seasons played by Kilmarnock Football Club, an association football club based in Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland, up to the present day. The list details the club's record in major league and cup competitions. Records of regular minor competitions, such as the Ayrshire Cup which Kilmarnock won 43 times, are not included.