Albion Rovers

Albion Rovers Football Club are a Scottish football team from the North Lanarkshire town of Coatbridge, who are currently playing in the Irn-Bru Scottish Football League. Their home stadium is Cliftonhill, opened on Christmas Day 1919. The club are currently considering plans to redevelop their stadium.

Albion Rovers F.C. from Newport, Wales, playing in the Gwent County League, are named after Albion Rovers F.C. in Scotland, by “expats”. There are also clubs of the same name in Australia (currently using the name Cairnlea but has changed to and from Albion Rovers several times over their 40 year history) and the Republic of Ireland.

The club was formed with the merger of Albion and Rovers in 1882 and were admitted to the Scottish Football League in the 1902-03 season. They play in primrose yellow and red strips having changed from royal blue, white and black in 1961. Their greatest claim to fame is that they were Scottish Cup runners-up in season 1919-20 season, losing in the final to Kilmarnock.

Otherwise, Second Division championships in 1933/34 and 1988/89 are the main honours the club has won. The club has competed in the top flight of Scottish football in nine seasons,

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1983-1985 Home Kit

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