Sport / Scalloway FC celebrates 125th anniversary
CELEBRATIONS were held in Scalloway at the weekend to mark the local football club’s 125th anniversary.
This included an event at the Scalloway Hall on Friday night where former Dunfermline player and manager Jim Leishman was a speaker.
Scalloway FC also beat Stromness on penalties at Fraser Park earlier that evening after a 1-1 draw in which Scott Henderson scored for the local side.
Scalloway and Orcardians Stromness have faced each other annually since the 1950s after they played a friendly to commemorate the opening of Fraser Park.
There was also a night of live music at the Scalloway Boating Club on the Saturday, while on Sunday the TSB junior football club hosted an event at Fraser Park for youngsters.
The club thanked everyone who contributed over the weekend.
Football in Scalloway is said to date back to 1897, when two Lerwick teams Templars United and Vikings played a friendly at Ingaville.
This inspired Scalloway residents to form their own team in 1899.
Scalloway FC was one of four founding clubs of the Shetland Football Association in 1919.
Scalloway secured its first trophy in 1924 as the team picked up the Madrid Cup.
In the early 1930s vice-president Alex Stephen, originally from Aberdeen, approached Aberdeen FC to donate a strip to the club.
He received yellow and black striped jerseys – the colours of Aberdeen FC before they went red.
A golden period in Scalloway FC’s history was between 1960 and 1975, where the team dominated Shetland football and won nearly 100 trophies.
Meanwhile in more recent years some Scalloway players have gone on to play down south.
A couple of years ago John Allan moved to Peterhead while earlier this month George Robesten made his debut for Ross County.
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