Clyde FC was a private members club more akin to a present-day golf or bowling club.
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36 Facts About Clyde FC
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Clyde FC's Secretary, John Graham, was a noted rower and it seems the club had other sporting and cultural activities besides football.
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Clyde FC entered the 1st Round of the Scottish Cup on 29 September 1877 along with one hundred and one other teams.
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Clyde FC joined the Scottish Football League in 1891, its second edition.
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However, Clyde FC endured a terrible final season at Barrowfield, finishing bottom of Division 1 with only 5 points, but remained in the top division.
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From 1908 to 1913, Clyde FC were at the top end of Division One and reached the Scottish Cup final in 1910 and 1912.
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From 1926 to 1939, Clyde FC remained a Division One club, as the team maintained a respectable mid-table status.
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Clyde FC faced Motherwell, who had scored the most goals on route to the final, in front of 94,000 at Hampden on 22 April 1939.
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Clyde FC argued that they were not from Glasgow; they were from Rutherglen.
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Clyde FC spent five unhappy seasons at Firhill, and there was a sense of relief when Clyde FC departed.
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The club then negotiated a ground-share at Douglas Park with Hamilton Academical, where Clyde FC resided for two and a half seasons as plans were developed and implemented to build a new home in Cumbernauld.
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Clyde FC dropped to the third tier of football, and in 1998 they almost fell into the lowest reaches of Senior football.
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The goal scorers for Clyde FC were Eddie Malone and Craig Bryson whilst Celtic's goal scorer was Maciej Zurawski.
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Clyde FC reached the 2006 Challenge Cup Final, their first final for 48 years, since their Scottish Cup success in 1958.
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On 14 August of that year, Clyde FC history was made when Michael Doherty became the youngest person ever to play for Clyde FC in a competitive match, a feat later broken by Connor Stevenson in a league match at Palmerston on 25 April 2009.
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Clyde FC entered the final game of the season needing to better Morton's result to avoid getting forced into the playoffs.
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However, the following season Clyde FC finished bottom of the First Division and got relegated to the Second Division.
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The following year, Clyde FC finished 3rd in League Two but got beaten in the playoff final.
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Clyde FC's last match at Broadwood was a defeat by Airdrieonians on 23 April 2022.
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Clyde FC has had five home grounds since they formed in 1877.
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In 1990, Clyde FC had secured an agreement to move into a stadium in the new town of Cumbernauld, which due to shifting population patterns was by now one of the larger settlements in Scotland without a senior football team.
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On 9 December 2010, Clyde FC had informed their landlords at North Lanarkshire Council of their intention to relinquish their lease on Broadwood and move elsewhere.
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Furthermore, on 19 October 2011, Clyde FC revealed that they were investigating the possibility of a move to East Kilbride, the largest town in Scotland without a senior football team.
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Clyde FC were forced to switch their home games for a while.
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However, Clyde FC still had home advantage because the home stand tickets were initially reserved for Clyde FC ticket holders with Celtic tickets ineligible.
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Clyde FC secured an agreement with arch-rivals Partick Thistle to share their ground Firhill for five seasons until 1991.
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Clyde FC were confident that the pitch would be completed and all the details finalised for the club's first home league match of the season in time for the visit of Peterhead.
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Clyde FC supporters run their own supporters team called Bully Wee United.
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Bully Wee United are recognised as the official supporters team of Clyde FC and represent the club in the IFA League with matches well played Saturday mornings.
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Clyde FC is represented in the Scottish Central Amateur League by another supporters team named Broadwood Clyde FC.
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The supporters of Clyde FC adopted this as a badge of honour and the "Gypsy Army" was born.
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Clyde FC referred to it as getting the "Mo Johnston treatment".
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From 2010 to 2016, Clyde FC were on a demoralising run of results against Queen's Park: the Spiders won 17 and drew 3 of the 26 matches.
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Clyde FC put together a reserve team for the SFL's Reserve League Cup competition, which included a mixture of first team fringe players and youngsters.
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Clyde FC beat Motherwell in the semi final, but lost to Accies in the final.
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Clyde FC shared the trophy with Third Lanark in 1952 and with Celtic in 1961.
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