Forfar Athletic
Formed
1885
Nickname
The Sky Blues
Honours
Records
Record Attendance
10,800 (v Rangers, 1970)
Colours
Sky blue/navy blue vertical stripes
Notes
Forfar Athletic FC are a football club with membership of the Scottish Football League. The loons play thier home games at Station Park, in the north end of Forfar.
This season the club’s colours are sky-blue with gray-blue trim, gray-blue shorts, sky-blue stockings with gray trim , with the away shirt being a white top with a green strip around the neck and sleeves, green shorts and white socks.
There will be a new kit launched for the 2007-08 season, supplied by Italian sportswear manufacturer Macron. The home kit will be predominantly Sky Blue in colour, with the away kit White and Green.
The club are nicknamed “the Loons”, although the local media have had a habit of using the much despised moniker of the “Sky Blues”. Other rival clubs in Angus include Arbroath, Brechin City and Montrose, as well as the larger clubs of Dundee, Dundee United, Aberdeen and St. Johnstone in the wider east of Scotland region. As well as taking part in the Scottish Football League (presently Division 3) the club also participate in the Scottish Cup, the League Cup, the Challenge Cup and the Forfarshire Cup every season.
The club was founded in 1885 when the second team of the older Forfarshire
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Some club information was provided, with permission, by Brian McColl.

