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Edinburgh Athletic Football Club were a Scottish football team based in Edinburgh. They played in the East of Scotland Football League until they merged into Leith Athletic in 2008. [1] The club were originally named Manor Thistle, having started as a team of employees of the many solicitors' firms in Edinburgh's Manor Place. They played at the ...
Leith Athletic played at Old Meadowbank from the 1930s until their demise in 1955. [1] In the early 1950s it was the location of a football match played under temporary floodlights against an invitation XI including the Edinburgh born Jimmy Logie, then playing for Arsenal.
Edinburgh City moved into the stadium after Meadowbank left [8] – their first fixture there as an SPFL club in July 2016 happened to be against Livingston in the Scottish League Cup [2] – and they were joined there by Leith Athletic (from the East of Scotland League). Hibernian have also played some of their reserve team matches at ...
In October 1992 the Scottish Amateur Athletic Association, the Scottish Women’s Amateur Athletic Association and the Scottish Cross Country Union merged into one overall governing body for the sport in Scotland known as the Scottish Athletics Federation, and this was in turn succeeded by Scottish Athletics on 1 April 2001. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Leith Athletic Football Club is a football club based in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland. They compete in the East of Scotland Football League, First Division. First team matches are played at Meadowbank Stadium. The present club considers itself to be a continuation of the original Leith Athletic F.C., which was founded in 1887.
The Edinburgh City Football Club Ltd., [4] which had continued trading as a social club since the football club stopped playing, gave their approval in 1986 for Postal United to use the Edinburgh City F.C. name. [3] The club has participated in the Scottish Cup since the mid-1990s, when it became a full member of the Scottish Football ...
Edinburgh University Athletic Club started training at Powderhall from as early as March 1871, and in February 1872 held their Spring Athletic Games there. [2] [3] William M. Lapsley was a keen amateur sportsman from Edinburgh. He was a founding member of St Bernard's F.C., and played as goalkeeper for Hanover F.C., he was a cyclist, and an ...
The club briefly groundshared with St Bernard's at New Logie Green at the start of the 1899–1900 season, and played the remainder of their matches at Hawkhill. The following season they moved to Chancelot Park. After the club left Beechwood Park the North British Railway built the line into Leith Central across the site. [1]