School of Sport

Welcome to the home of Stirling University Football Club, where students, staff, alumni and supporters can keep up-to-date with all the action on and off the football field.

The University has five men's teams, comprising around 100 players, who compete in both British University competitions and in amateur and senior leagues across Scotland. In 2008, the first team joined the East of Scotland Football Association, competing in the First Division and in season 2009/10, they secured promotion to the Premier Division.

Home matches and training is on campus, where the students benefit from world-class facilities including seven grass pitches, two artificial pitches and a state-of-the-art fitness centre. On top of five dedicated coaches, the club benefits from strength and conditioning and physio support.

And in a unique partnership with Falkirk FC, the University now offers talented players the opportunity to combine their study with high performance football through the Craig Gowans football scholarships.

	University of Stirling FC first team squad 2011-12: Jason Atkins, Liam Corr, Daniel Denholm, James Drummond, Jake Fifer, Ross Harkness, Stephen Hoyle, Craig Mason, Kieran McCaffrey, Chris McKee, Blair McWhirter (loan), Jack Nixon, Joe Parish, Emmot Parr-Gallagher, Robert Pearson, Michael Pentland, Creag Robertson, Matthew Sheridan, Kevin Walker, Dougie Wilson.
	University of Stirling FC second team squad 2011-12: Stuart Aitken, Jacob Arnold-Smith, Iain Bailey, Will Barker, Jason Bolam, John Charles, Stevie Clark, David Dixon, Keith Glendinning, Kevin Hughes, Sheldon Jacobs, Graeme Lindsay, Thomas McCulloch, Stewart McFarlane, Joe McNee, Fraser Meechan, Riteesh Mishra, Cameron Mitchell, Daniele Polvara, Scott Tully, Curtis Wilson, Scott Wilson.
	University of Stirling FC third team squad 2010-11: Chris Beetren, Ethan Bews, Steven Boyle, James Brodie, Ross Chapman, Jono Cooper, Graeme Crawford, Tom Flanagan, Ryan Lynch, Ryan Mahoney, Euan McCall, Kieran McCulloch, Mikey McDougall, Matthew McLachlan, Jamie McLean, Charles Owusu, Ryan Quinn, Mark Spowart, Connor Wells, Angus Wilson.
	University of Stirling FC fourth team squad 2010-11: Ross Anderson, Brian Booth, Angus Brock, Harry Connor, Scott Elder, James Farley, Andrew Gonnet, Nathan Grey, Colin Jack, Graeme Laverry, Christopher Malmqvist, Sam Marsh, Murray McAdam, Connor McCann, Graeme McCormick, Craig McLean, Daryn McRae, Craig Neilson, J.P. O'Hara, Chris Philbin, Euan Player, Chris Sellars, Elliot Smith, Owen Smith, Scott Togher, Alex Watson, Sean Young.

On this page
Here you can find the league tables for the University of Stirling men's football teams; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th XI. At the foot of each table is a link to the current standings information, where available.

denotes where match reports are available.

denotes where match programmes are available.

- Select a Season - Season 2009/2010 Season 2010/2011 Season 2011/2012 Season 2012/2013

East of Scotland First Division
League Champions

2009-10 1st XI

East of Scotland League Alex Jack Cup

2010-11 1st XI
2011-12 1st XI

SFA South Region Challenge Cup

2011-12 1st XI

British Universities Premier North League Champions

2010-11 1st XI

Scottish Universities' Football Association
Queen's Park Shield Winners (1st XI)

1981-2
1982-3
1983-4 (shared with Dundee)
1984-5
1988-9
2000-1
2008-9
2009-10
2011-12

Caledonian League
W.D Wilson Good Conduct Trophy (2nd XI)

1988-9
1991-2
1998-9
1999-0
2000-1
2001-2
2002-3
2003-4
2005-6
2006-7
2007-8
2008-9

Stirling and District Division Two Champions

2010-11 3rd XI

Stirling and District Amateur League
Robertson Trophy

1982-3

Scottish Amateur Cup

1993-4  Semi-final         1st XI

East of Scotland Cup

1985-6  Semi-final                   1st XI

Background to Football at the University

The University of Stirling was founded in 1967.  A Sports Union was established in 1969 and one of its founding members was the Association Football Club.  The Club is typical of most Scottish university football clubs – it participates in competitions for students on Wednesday afternoons and local and regional non-student competitions at weekends.

Inter University Football

Initially, Stirling entered two teams in mid-week student competitions.  This grew to three teams in the 1980s and four teams by the late 1990s.  The Queen’s Park Shield is the most prestigious prize in student football in Scotland.  This competition was established in 1921 when Queen’s Park Football Club, realising the value of universities as potential recruiting grounds, presented a large silver shield to the Scottish Universities’ Football Association for an annual competition.  The front of the shield is solid silver.  It contains an engraving of Hampden Park as it was in 1921 and is surrounded by the crests of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews Universities, with a figurine of a player wearing a Queen’s Park strip standing above.  Stirling’s successes in the competition are listed below.

Scottish Combined Reserve League

The Club’s initial participation in non-student football was in 1971-2 in the Scottish Combined Reserve League.  This consisted of reserve teams of Second Division clubs and top amateur clubs.  St Mirren A, Queen’s Park Strollers, Queen of the South, Dumbarton A, Jordanhill Training College, Glasgow University and Drumchapel Amateurs were the clubs in this league.  John Lambie, at that time a player with St Johnstone, coached the team.  He previously played for Falkirk and went on to manage Hamilton Academical, Partick Thistle and Falkirk.  The Combined Reserve League was not run the following season due to realignment of the Scottish professional leagues.

East of Scotland League

Several years later, Stirling applied unsuccessfully for membership of the East of Scotland League, consisting of clubs from Edinburgh and the Borders.   It re-applied successfully in 2008-9. 

Caledonian League

The Club has been a member of the Caledonian League since its inception in 1983-4.  It has never won a competition.  However, it has won the League’s good conduct trophy on numerous occasions.

Stirling and District Amateur League

The Club entered the Stirling and District Amateur League in the late 1970s and won the Robertson Trophy in 1982-3.

The team is always interested in potential sponsors, including shirt sponsorship as well as volunteers to assist on match days. To find out how you can contribute, contact:

Raleigh Gowrie
Sports Performance Manager
Tel: +44 (0) 1786 466924
Fax: +44 (0) 1786 466919
Email: r.n.gowrie@stir.ac.uk

Home matches are played on campus at the Gannochy Sports Centre.

Maps and directions to the ground

Team Contacts

1st XI Club Secretary Raleigh Gowrie r.n.gowrie@stir.ac.uk

2nd XI Club Secretary Keith Glendinning keg00008@students.stir.ac.uk

3rd XI Club Secretary Steven Boyle sab00021@students.stir.ac.uk

4th XI Club Secretary Craig Neilson cwn00002@students.stir.ac.uk